Senegal hopes to find shale gas in its onshore Paleozoic Basin in the next two years having awarded exploration licenses to international companies, the head of state-owned Petrosen said Thursday. The west African nation, already a small ...
Tags: Shale Gas, Metallurgy
There is no question Surfaces is the industry’s largest all-encompassing trade show in North America. And in 2014, it promises to be even bigger and better with the addition of a new trade show, TileExpo running in conjunction with ...
Tags: decoration, surface
The National Retail Federation issued the following statement from Senior Vice President and General Counsel Mallory Duncan in response to U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson’s approval of a controversial antitrust lawsuit over ...
Tags: Credit Card, US Court Decision
The budget deal that received overwhelmingly support from the House on Thursday includes language that would repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax. In addition, the deal would give FDA access to user fees paid by the device industry in ...
Tags: FDA, medical reform, budget deal, device tax
American Exploration & Mining Association awarded Boise-based mining lawyer, Joseph H. Baird, Esq., its Lifetime Achievement Award. Baird was honored with the association's highest individual award at American Exploration & Mining ...
Tags: mineral, exploration
Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (“Zion” or “Company”) (NASDAQ ZN) announced today that, on December 3, 2013, the State of Israel’s Petroleum Commissioner awarded the Company the Megiddo-Jezreel Petroleum Exploration ...
Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is compatible with European Union competition law, the General Court of the E.U. ruled Wednesday. Cisco Systems and Italian Internet communications service provider Messagenet had asked the court to ...
Congress in 2007 passed a law setting higher energy efficiency standards. That has led to the phasing out of the production of traditional incandescent bulbs. On New Year's Day 2013, 75-watt incandescent light bulbs, the now stigmatized ...
Tags: incandescent light bulbs, light bulbs, Lights, Lighting, LED bulbs
The city of Baytown, Texas has installed around 350 Cree LEDway streetlights on freeways and separately Cree announced a new high-output streetlight while the San Francisco region is installing more SSL on the Bay Bridge and a prominent ...
Tags: Outdoor Lighting, CREE Lighting
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released the final version of a voluntary plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals. Antibiotics are added to the feed or drinking water of cattle, hogs, poultry and other ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A long-running spat between Changqing oil field and Yulin government in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province has moved a step closer to being resolved after 21 of the oil and gas producer's 22 bank accounts were unfrozen. A Yulin government ...
Tags: Eco-Compensation, Oil Producer
A Russian-speaking group is advertising "bulletproof" hosting for cybercriminals from data centres in Syria and Lebanon, an apparent effort to place new services in locales where Western law enforcement has little influence. The ...
Tags: bulletproof, Russian, cybercriminals, data centre, Internet
America will conclude its three-year farewell to inefficient general-purpose incandescent light bulbs on December 31, 2013, the National Lighting Bureau advises. On the following day – January 1, 2014 – it will be a violation of ...
As one of the most serious, but often most misunderstood, retail loss prevention issues, return fraud costs retailers billions of dollars every year. According to NRF's 2013 Return Fraud Survey completed by loss prevention executives at ...
Tags: Apparel, Textile, Holiday Economy
Anonymous sources have confirmed to SteelOrbis that representatives of the US rebar industry filed a "critical circumstances" allegation late Wednesday in the ongoing AD/CVD investigation of rebar from Turkey. The allegation, which claims ...
Tags: US, rebar, US rebar industry, Turkish rebar, critical circumstances