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Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

Plastic bottles of shampoo are displayed at Compton's Market in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, June 17, 2022. California lawmakers approved a measure, on Thursday, June 30, 2022, requiring companies selling plastics used for single-use products like eating utensils, food containers and shampoo bottles to cut down their use of the polluting product by 25% if they want to continue selling in California starting the next decade.

California Sets Nation's Toughest Plastics Reduction Rules

Companies have 10 years to make changes.

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Boring Company's Loop Opens First Las Vegas Passenger Station

The Resorts World Las Vegas passenger station will be the first of more than 55 stops anticipated to form the Vegas Loop.

Steam billows from a coal-fired power plant Nov. 18, 2021, in Craig, Colo. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, 2022, limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming.

Supreme Court Decision May Slow Transition to Cleaner Energy

It could also change the way other agencies can regulate the power sector.

A proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration would let the state purchase power in emergencies from aging gas plants.

To Avoid Blackouts, California May Tap Fossil Fuel Plants

Critics say the method is at odds with the state's broader climate goals.

A customer pays for vegetables at the Maravillas market in Madrid, on May 12, 2022. Inflation figures for Europe will be released Friday, July 1, 2022, as Russia's war in Ukraine has worsened the worldwide surge in consumer prices. For months, inflation in the 19 countries that use the euro has risen at the fastest pace since record-keeping for the currency began.

Inflation Hits Record 8.6% for 19 Euro-Using Countries

Russia's invasion of Ukraine made things worse.

A brief patch of early morning sunlight brightens the landscape around the Greenidge Generation power plant, Oct. 15, 2021, in Dresden, N.Y. State officials on Thursday, June, 30, 2022, denied air permit renewals to a bitcoin-mining power plant in Finger Lakes that environmentalists called a threat to New York's climate goals.

New York Officials Rule Against Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant

The plant began bitcoin mining in earnest in 2020.

A Volvo XC40 electric vehicle is shown on, Dec. 13, 2021. Sweden's luxury car maker Volvo Cars will built its new European plant in Slovakia. Slovakia's Economy Minister Richard Sulik said Friday that the plant will be located in eastern Slovakia near the second largest city of Kosice.The investment is worth some 1.2 billion euros ($1.25 billion) . Volvo will receive about 20% of the investment as support from the Slovak government. The plant will make electric cars only.

Volvo to Build $1.25 Billion Electric Car Plant in Slovakia

The plant is expected to produce some 250,000 electric cars a year.

Boston Scientific's corporate headquarters are located in Marlborough, MA.

Boston Scientific Investing $62.5M for New Manufacturing Facility

The company employs approximately 300 individuals in Georgia.

A center-pivot irrigation system in Arizona.

A Water Strategy for the Parched West

Have cities pay farmers to install more efficient irrigation systems.

Gas station in Sacramento, Calif., May 27, 2022.

Key Inflation Gauge Remains a High 6.3%

Consumer spending is beginning to weaken — but it's still helping fuel inflation itself.

Siemens and NVIDIA announced an expansion of their partnership to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology.

NVIDIA, Siemens Partner on Metaverse for Industrial Automation

The companies intend to use digital twins for productivity and process improvements.