Media Minute— a weekly dispatch of local, national and world news impacting West Virginia’s manufacturing industry.
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Media Minute— a weekly dispatch of local, national and world news impacting West Virginia’s manufacturing industry.
West Virginia
As Trump doubles down on coal, West Virginia lawmakers are eyeing natural gas
Virginian-Pilot
But jobs are jobs, and for West Virginia, natural gas would represent a new chapter ... that can be processed out for use in chemical industries, among other uses. ... The West Virginia lawmakers also have a bill with Democratic Sen.
ROCKWOOL (North America) breaks ground on new stone wool manufacturingfacility in Ranson ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Latest addition to global manufacturing set-up will create approx. 150 new jobs in Jefferson County, West Virginia. RANSON, WV, June 26, 2018 ...
China Trade Fight Puts Billions in US Energy Projects in Doubt
Bloomberg
China Energy Investment Corp. pledged almost $84 billion in shale gas and chemical manufacturing projects across West Virginia after President ...
Unemployment rate decreases in region
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
West Virginia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 5.4 percent in ... Manufacturing added 10,200 jobs in durable goods (+8,600) and ...
West Virginia not lowering utility rates
Williamson Daily News
"Utility companies in most states are passing on the tax savings in the form of ... The proposal for West Virginia customers also includes $51 million to ...
Coal to cars: NETL, Southern W.Va. coal co. form research partnership
WV News
Coal to cars: NETL, Southern W.Va. coal co. form research partnership ... projects that use coal as a manufacturing feedstock for high-value products. ... The company operates mines in southern West Virginia, Pennsylvania and ...
China Energy officials cancel trip related to West Virginia deal due to Trump trade spat
Williamson Daily News
China Energy officials cancel trip related to West Virginia deal due to Trump trade spat ... than $80 billion over the next 20 years in projects connected to the state's natural gas industry, including chemical manufacturing projects.
United States
What a Trade War With China Looks Like on the Front Lines
New York Times
The emerging trade war between the United States and China has prompted predictions of severe economic and geopolitical disruption. But for any ...
Nail manufacturing exec who voted for Trump blames him for layoffs, asks Democrat for help
The Hill
George Skarich, vice president of sales for Missouri-based Mid Continent Nail Corporation, told The New York Times that his nail company could soon ...
Trump greets EU trade reprisals with threat of steep auto tariff
Yahoo Finance
"If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them ...
EU and China to meet and discuss ways of dealing with Trump's tough trade tariffs
South China Morning Post
The EU is concerned that China is dividing the block through its investment, making member states less critical of China, and that a large part of ...
Foxconn executive: Make products in the US and sell them to China
Yahoo Finance
Woo urges Chinese investors to stop doing business the traditional way — manufacturing in China and exporting to the U.S. “Invest in the U.S. and sell ...
The Great Regulation Rollback Is Finally Here. But Is it Working?
IndustryWeek
It's true that the Trump administration has pared the number of new regulations. Keith Belton, director of the Manufacturing Policy Initiative at Indiana ...
What comes after the trade war?
Washington Post
The escalating trade war between the United States and China poses crucial, though unanswerable, questions: Is this the beginning of the end of the ...
