The National Retail Federation has issued a statement from David French, senior vice president for government relations following a news conference with state and local officials who urged Congress to act on sales tax fairness legislation ...
Tags: Sales Tax, Construction
EPA has completed its review of site cleanups at 22 Superfund Sites and 3 Federal Facilities across New England by conducting Five-Year Reviews of each site, as required under the Superfund statute. EPA conducts evaluations every five ...
Tags: site cleanups, Superfund statute, Industrial
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, on her first trip to New Jersey, was joined by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop at the Berry Lane Park project to highlight EPA funding that has helped Jersey City ...
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When changes to China's environmental law saw the light of day last year the resulting din was so loud it was felt even in the National People's Congress. China's oldest non-governmental organization focused on the environment, Friends of ...
Tags: Environmental Policy, Wildlife
Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
This Earth Week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is empowering Americans across the country to act on climate change through simple actions to reduce carbon pollution in their daily lives. Across the country, EPA will be ...
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Dal-Tile will build a glazed porcelain and colorbody tile manufacturing plant and distribution center in Dickson, Tenn., near Nashville. The 1.4 million square feet plant is scheduled to open in late 2015 and will be the Dallas-based ...
Tags: Tile, expand manufacturing capability, glazed porcelain capabilities
More than a week after marijuana prohibition came to an end in Colorado, the joy has faded as residents adjust to the new normal of having the most liberal marijuana laws in the U.S. Long lines are gone from the 37 -- and counting -- pot ...
The Vietnam Trade Office in the US will seek to persuade leading US retailer Walmart to source goods, including apparel, from Vietnam in 2014, Vietnam Industry & Trade Information Center said on its website Asem Connect. Vietnam is ...
The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
China is sending "encouraging" messages on climate change issues, and the country has "a huge amount" to teach the world in this area, said Andrew Steer, president and chief executive officer of the World Resources Institute. Commenting ...
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When the world was digesting news of Detroit’s bankruptcy in July, the biggest ever by a municipality in the US, attention in China turned to the highly indebted government of Jiangsu province. Provincial, city and county authorities ...
Tags: Bond Markets, Local Officials
Candler, N.C.-based Jacob Holm Industries (America) Inc. — the U.S. subsidiary of Switzerland-based spunlaced and composite nonwoven roll goods manufacturer Jacob Holm & Sons AG — is investing more than $45.9 million over the ...
Tags: Textile, composite nonwoven
Swedish vehicle and vehicle parts manufacturer Volvo Group is set to expand its powertrain manufacturing plant in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, with an investment of $30m. The company, one of the world's largest producers of ...
Tags: vehicle, vehicle parts, Volvo Group
A year ago, rising domestic property prices would most likely have prompted policymakers to reach into the cupboard and pull out a blanket and smother them. Former premier Wen Jiabao, who stepped down in March, oversaw a nearly ...
Tags: Real Estate Measures