Michael Phillis

Associated Press

The Manufacturer’s Guide to a Future-Ready Talent Strategy

The Manufacturer’s Guide to a Future-Ready Talent Strategy

June 18, 2025

Sentiment: A Moving Target

June 6, 2025

A 'Tariff Free' sign displayed at a car dealership in Totowa, N.J., April 30, 2025.

Trump's Tariffs Would Cut Deficits but Shrink the Economy, CBO Says

June 5, 2025

U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Plant, Braddock, Pa., April 11, 2025.

U.S. Growth Likely to Slow to 1.6% This Year, OECD Says

June 4, 2025

Making Your Supply Chains More Efficient

Making Your Supply Chains More Efficient

Here's how to keep products moving, avoid unnecessary costs, and leverage data to hit every supply chain KPI.

June 18, 2025

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington.

What to Know About Trump's First Executive Actions on Climate and Environment

From oil and gas expansion to revoking EV goals.

January 27, 2025

A copper water supply line, left, is shown connected to a water main after being installed for lead pipe, right, July 20, 2018, in Flint, Mich.

Biden Sets 10-Year Deadline for U.S. Cities to Replace Lead Pipes

The mandate would finalize an effort to ensure the safety of the nation's drinking water.

October 8, 2024

The Denka Performance Elastomer Plant sits at sunset in Reserve, La., on Sept. 23, 2022.

New EPA Rule Says 200 U.S. Chemical Plants Must Reduce Toxic Emissions

The action updates several regulations that have not been tightened in nearly two decades.

April 9, 2024

Lead water pipes pulled from underneath the street are seen in Newark, N.J., Oct. 21, 2021.

Cities Must Replace Harmful Lead Pipes under New Biden Administration Plan

Most cities would have 10 years to replace the pipes.

December 1, 2023

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 19, 2023.

Biden Declares Emergency Over Lead in Water in U.S. Virgin Islands

Officials told residents to stop using their taps and began distributing vouchers for bottled water.

November 23, 2023

Nicholas Hartnett, owner of Pure Power Solar, carries a panel as he and Brian Hoeppner, right, install a solar array on the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, July 17, 2023.

U.S. Climate Law is Already Turbocharging Clean Energy Technology

The law passed one year ago.

July 24, 2023

A road bisects a wetland on June 20, 2019, near Kulm, N.D. The Supreme Court has made it harder for the federal government to police water pollution. The decision from the court on Thursday, May 25, 2023, strips protections from wetlands that are isolated from larger bodies of water. It’s the second ruling in as many years in which a conservative majority has narrowed the reach of environmental regulations.

SCOTUS Limits Law Intended to Protect Wetlands

Industry and farm groups praised the ruling.

May 26, 2023

Cooling towers release heat generated by boiling water reactors at Xcel Energy's Nuclear Generating Plant on Oct. 2, 2019, in Monticello, Minn.

Regulators: Nuclear Plant Leak Didn't Require Public Notice

Regulators knew four months ago that radioactive waste had leaked.

March 20, 2023

Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announces the Biden administration is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams during an event at N.C. State University, Oct. 18, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect.

EPA to Limit 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water

It's the first time the EPA has proposed regulating a toxic group of compounds that are widespread, dangerous and expensive to remove from water.

March 14, 2023

Toney Lewis shows a bottle of tap water he saved, before his neighborhood was recently switched to the current Ferriday, La. water system, in Ridgecrest, La., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022.

When Destitute Small Towns Mean Dangerous Tap Water

Federal law allows authorities to force changes on water utilities, but they rarely do.

November 4, 2022

A towboat and its barges are shown in the channel at lock and dam 25 at Winfield, Mo., on Aug. 19, 2005. The U.S. Army Corps will spend $732 million to expand the congested lock and dam in Missouri. Federal officials said adding a second lock in Winfield will reduce travel time for barges and allow for two-way traffic. Funding for the lock's construction was part of a broader Biden administration announcement Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, to provide the Army Corps with $14 billon for infrastructure and environmental restoration projects.

Army Corps to Spend $732M on Mississippi River Lock Upgrade

The project is fully funded and will take roughly five to seven years to complete.

January 20, 2022

Workers use equipment to remove a section of roof left on a heavily damaged Amazon fulfillment center on Dec. 11, 2021 in Edwardsville, IL.

OSHA Begins Reviewing Collapse of Amazon Warehouse Hit by Deadly Tornado

The Friday night twister left six people dead at the facility and another hospitalized.

December 14, 2021

Volunteers prepare bottled water to be distributed to residents at the local high school parking lot Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Benton Harbor, Mich. The water system in Benton Harbor has tested for elevated levels of lead for three consecutive years. In response, residents have been told to drink and cook with bottled water and the state has promised to spend millions replacing lead service lines.

Michigan's Lead Water Crisis Persists

Free water distribution sites are a fixture of life in a city where almost half of residents live below the poverty line.

November 5, 2021