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Media Minute— a weekly dispatch of local, national and world news impacting West Virginia’s manufacturing industry.
West Virginia
Justice takes office as West Virginia governor
Herald-Mail Media
... statewide office at age 65, Justice outlined some proposals to help West Virginia's teachers, highways, jobs, tax receipts, forestry and manufacturing.
W. Va. Attorney General ready to work with Jim Justice
The News Center
(WTAP) - West Virginia's attorney general is ready to work with the ... coordinated the right way and I want this governor and legislature to work with me ...
Longtime coal consultant named WVDEP secretary
Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)
elect Jim Justice to be West Virginia's Department of Environmental ... Rebecca McPhail, president of the West Virginia Manufacturers Association, ...
Business tax question remains as new administration takes over
Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)
Rebecca McPhail, president of the West Virginia Manufacturers Association, of which Sistersville Tank Works is a member, said the tax creates a ...
West Virginia GOP Lawmakers 'Disappointed' In Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's Proposed Budget During ...
Wheeling Intelligencer
Ferns said his goal is to broaden West Virginia's tax base, making it ... to make the Joint Select Committee on Tax Reform a regular committee that will ...
United States
Ex-Im President Hochberg: Manufacturing Jobs Trump Agenda
Bloomberg
Export-Import Bank of U.S. Chairman and President Fred Hochberg discusses Donald Trump's meeting with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and the ...
EPA: Industrial facilities slashed toxic emissions by 50% since 2005
Kallanish Energy (subscription)
Those plants must detail toxic chemicals released for the previous year by ... administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention.
GM to invest $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing, move axle work from Mexico
Automotive News (subscription) (blog)
DETROIT -- General Motors today said it would invest $1 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations to create or retain 1,500 jobs in this country.
Withdrawal from NAFTA would cost US jobs, CAR study finds
Automotive News (subscription) (blog)
Doing so would require the 10 largest auto manufacturers to add about 1 million units of production capacity to the U.S. to produce other models.
Trump says German automakers will pay tariff on cars built outside US
Philly.com
German manufacturers and suppliers increased their production of cars in the U.S. from 214,000 to 850,000 between 2009 and 2016, according to ...
Manufacturing trends to watch in 2017
BizTimes.com (Milwaukee)
Preliminary figures show the U.S. losing 63,000 manufacturing jobs between January and December. In Wisconsin, job totals were basically flat ...
DoD Announces Award of New Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Innovation Hub in ...
EIN News (press release)
... Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin will organize the current fragmented domestic capabilities in manufacturing robotics technology ...
Study Reveals 83% of Manufacturing Leaders See Increased Productivity fromSafety Programs
Yahoo Finance
The research was conducted with Plant Engineering magazine to better understand workplace safety in manufacturing. The research also examined ...
US Lost 286000 Manufacturing Jobs Under Obama—But Gained 3238800 in Retail, Food Services ...
CNSNews.com
But, at the same time, the United States gained 3,238,800 jobs in retail, food services and drinking places. Manufacturing workers, however, had ...
Apple, Inc. Is About to Expand US Manufacturing, but It's Not What You Think
Madison.com
We've already seen a handful of domestic companies cave to the political pressure, altering investment plans to focus on U.S. facilities in some cases.
