Will Other Car Makers Follow Volvo's Switch To Electric?

Volvo plans for all new models from 2019 to be either fully electric or hybrid, the company announced Wednesday.

Jul 6th, 2017

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

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.

Solar Panel Maker Plans $36M Georgia Factory, Hiring 500

Production will start sometime next year.

Former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh, center, walks out of a courtroom with his lawyers after being sentenced to two years in prison for lying and deceiving the public about the progress of a pair of nuclear reactors in South Carolina that were never finished and wasted billions of dollars on Thursday, Oct. 7, in Columbia, S.C. Marsh also has pleaded guilty in state charges in the case.

Ex-CEO Who Oversaw Doomed Nuclear Project Sentenced

Imprisoning Kevin Marsh sends a message of public responsibility to powerful executives.

Ted Bowman, design engineer with Tsunami Products, installs a unit in homeowner Don Johnson's backyard in Benicia, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021. The recent invention can make water out of the air and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices. The air-to-water systems work like air conditioners by using coils to chill air, then collect water drops in a basin.

In California, Some Buy Machines That Make Water Out of Air

The machines are not cheap.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a mug, during a visit to a construction site in Manchester, England, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

UK Pledges to Hit All-Renewable Electricity by 2035

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK could get to “complete clean energy production” by the next decade.

Shipping Industry Group Aims for Net-Zero Emissions by 2050

The International Chamber of Shipping submitted a proposal to stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

Oil floats on the water surface after an oil spill in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled Sunday, to contain the crude before it spread further into protected wetlands.

Records Show Slow Response to Report of California Oil Spill

The spill sent up to 126,000 gallons of heavy crude into the ocean.

In this March 12, 2020, file photo, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va.

Kentucky Seeks Action Against WV Gov's Coal Companies

Jim Justice has said many of the violations were inherited when he acquired the properties.

This Oct. 27, 2011, file photo, shows the Perdido oil platform located about 200 miles south of Galveston, Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico. The Biden administration says it has followed a court order to schedule an offshore oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico after the Democratic president's moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands was blocked by a judge. The sale will be livestreamed from New Orleans on Nov. 17, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced in a news release Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021.

Feds Schedule Gulf Offshore Oil Lease Sale for November

President Biden's moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands was blocked by a judge.

In this Sept. 19, 2019, file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks during his news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. A pledge by nine grantmakers to give $5 billion to conservation efforts that address threats to biodiversity and to help curb climate change is taking a different approach than philanthropy has embraced in the past — one that may require those organizations to do things differently.

$5B Conservation Plan Offers New Approach, But Faces Hurdles

It was designed to help jump-start support for the global effort, dubbed 30x30, to protect 30% of the land and 30% of oceans by 2030.

Executive Chairman of Ford William Clay Ford Jr. speaks during a news conference in front of the capital in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, to announce that Ford is going to build a battery manufacturing plant in Hardin County.

Beshear: Kentucky to Become Electric Vehicle Leader

"We will not let you down,” the governor told Ford executives.

Diageo Lebanon Distillery 2 Min

Spirits Maker Diageo Opens Carbon-Neutral Plant in Kentucky

The distillery at Lebanon in central Kentucky was designed and built to ensure that fossil fuels are not used during production.