The US Department of Interior on Thursday extended the comments deadline for a proposed rule governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands by an additional 60 days after industry groups protested the original 30-day comment window. ...
Tags: US, Chemicals, Federal Fracking
Solvay announces that it plans to reinforce its position as a world leader in soda ash and improve the activity's long-term profitability by reducing its 2012 European cost base by €100 million per year as of 2016. Solvay will focus ...
Communications agency Verde PR & Consulting, which represents many companies in the cycling and outdoors industry, is launching a new events planning and management division called Verde Events. The new division will provide event ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Mayor Bob Foster climbs in a cherry picker to christen pilot LED street lights in a Westside neighborhood. Long Beach, California - Lined with quaint single-family homes and manicured lawns, the 3000 block of Baltic Ave. looks like many ...
Tags: LED street light, Lighting
Pulaski Furniture’s Dallas George, left, with sales award winners Lorne Rotenberg and Paul Hanlin; Page Wilson; and Brooks Roughton, named the Salesman of the Year. HIGH POINT — Pulaski Furniture named Brooks Roughton its ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Genesee & Wyoming, the largest shortline holding company in the US, reported a 4% year-on-year increase in coal and coke shipments in the first quarter largely because of higher domestic demand for thermal coal, said the company Wednesday ...
Tags: Shortline Company, Coke Shipments
House Republicans on Friday criticized an Obama administration study of hydraulic fracturing as unnecessary and plagued by delays and excessive costs. "We all want to ensure safe and responsible production of oil and natural gas, but the ...
Tags: Chemicals
Mavic Inc. has signed with Denver, Colorado-based rep group Kahl and Partners to strengthen its sales coverage in the Rocky Mountain and Central regions. For more than a decade, Kahl and Partners territory manager George Knaggs has been a ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The U.S. Senate has voted 74-20 to close debate and move to a final vote on a bill allowing states to collect sales tax from out-of-state Internet and catalog retailers. The Senate's Monday vote sets up an expedited vote on the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Citing a lack of data on hydraulic fracturing specific to their state, a team of University of California-Berkeley researchers this week released a report calling for better tracking of frack jobs and handling of fracking wastewater. In a ...
Citing concern for patient and staff safety, officials at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have installed bulletproof glass around the emergency department's reception desk. The hospital was the site of a run-in in July between two ...
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Citing concern for patient and staff safety, officials at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have installed bulletproof glass around the emergency department's reception desk. The hospital was the site of a run-in in July between two ...
Tags: bulletproof glass, glass
The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a non-binding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate ...
Tags: Internet, e-commerce, Internet Sales
The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a nonbinding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate ...
A group of U.S. senators has offered a nonbinding amendment to a fiscal year 2014 budget resolution allowing states to collect sales taxes on Internet sales and end the tax-free shopping that many shoppers enjoy online. The amendment, ...
Tags: Internet Sales, Budget Resolution, nonbinding amendment