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LISTEN: Electric Bus Co. Suspends Production at Brand New Plant
It was just July of last year when Illinois governor JB Pritzker cut the ribbon at the Lion Electric EV bus plant in Joliet.At the time, the company touted plans to produce 20,000 electric buses annually – claims that hit noticeable snag...
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LISTEN: Famed Workwear Maker Moving from Texas to California
A longtime manufacturer of workwear and other apparel is relocating its headquarters from Texas to California — reversing a highly publicized trend of companies moving in the opposite direction in recent years.The parent company of Dicki...
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LISTEN: Activists Rage After Coca-Cola Drastically Changes Plastic Pledge
In 2023, Coca-Cola was named the top plastic polluter in the world by environmental organization Break Free From Plastic.Unfortunately for Coke, this distinction wasn’t new; they’d earned the label for six years straight – one the group ...
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LISTEN: Cargill to Cut 8,000 Jobs
Cargill has revealed that it plans to cut 5% of its global workforce – most of which will take place in the coming year. It’s a move that will result in the elimination of some 8,000 jobs.
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LISTEN: Emergency Vehicle Lights Are Giving Driverless Cars 'Digital Seizures'
While driverless systems are often capable of reacting to scenarios more safely than a human driver would, sometimes the opposite is true – as evidenced by crashes over the years where a vehicle in autonomous mode has missed a seemingl...
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