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Colorado Rep. Brianna Titone before a signing ceremony for the state's 'right to repair' law, Denver, April 25, 2023.
Colorado the 1st State to Pass Farmers' 'Right to Repair'
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A mural is displayed on the wall outside the Lordstown Motors plant, June 22, 2021 in Lordstown, Ohio.
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Lordstown Warns It May Fail as Foxconn Gets Jumpy
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker measures the size of an equipment at Harbin Turbine Company Limited of Harbin Electric Corporation in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province on Friday, April 28, 2023.
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China's Manufacturing Contracts
An employee works at a battery energy storage facility in Saginaw, Texas, April 25, 2023, that is owned and operated by Eolian L.P.
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PGE Announces Major Clean Energy Storage Project in Portland
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Exterior view of the Tesla factory in Fremont, California.
Software
Russian Pleads Not Guilty in Foiled Tesla Ransomware Plot
He's accused of offering a Tesla employee $1 million to enable a ransomware attack at the company's plant.
September 25, 2020
Douglas Haig, left, and his attorney Marc Victor leave the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse, Tuesday Nov. 19, 2019, in Las Vegas, after pleading guilty to illegally manufacturing tracer and armor-piercing bullets found in a high-rise hotel suite where a gunman took aim before the Las Vegas Strip massacre two years ago. Haig is a 57-year-old aerospace engineer who used to reload bullets at home in Mesa, Airz., and sell them at gun shows. He isn’t accused of a direct role in the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting that killed 58 people and injured hundreds at an open-air music festival.
Product Development
Engineer Guilty of Illegal Firearms Mfg
The tracer and armor-piercing bullets were found in the hotel room of the man who perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
November 20, 2019
In this Nov., 20, 2013, file photo, radioactive waste, sealed in large stainless steel canisters, are stored under five-feet of concrete in a storage building at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, S.C. The federal government is arguing that it has already promised no more weapons-grade plutonium will be sent to Nevada, and the state lacks standing to seek a court order to force the Energy Department to remove it. Documents filed late Friday, Nov. 15, 2019 in U.S. District Court in Reno brand as 'conjectural' or 'hypothetical' state complaints that residents are harmed by radiation from material secretly trucked a year ago from South Carolina to Nevada.
Safety
US Asks Judge to Toss Plutonium Suit
The state claims that residents are harmed by radiation from the one-half metric ton of plutonium secretly trucked a year ago from South Carolina to Nevada.
November 19, 2019
This March 6, 2019, file photo shows Henry Nicholas III, left, and Ashley Fargo during the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets in Los Angeles. Attorneys for Nicholas and Fargo told a judge in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, they'll take a plea deal that will spare them prison time in a Las Vegas Strip hotel room drug case.
Operations
Tech Billionaire Takes Plea Deal
He will enter an "Alford plea" to felony drug possession charges, and will make a $1 million donation to an unspecified drug treatment and rehabilitation program.
August 1, 2019
In this July 14, 2018, file photo, a sign warns of a falling danger on the crest of Yucca Mountain during a congressional tour near Mercury, Nev. Nevada's governor and congressional delegation say recent earthquakes should make the U.S. Energy Department look again at seismic risks at a site eyed as the place to bury the nation's nuclear waste, Wednesday, July 17, 2019.
Safety
NV Asks Fed to Study Risk at Nuke Dump
Nevada first raised concerns about Yucca Mountain back in 2008.
July 18, 2019
In this June 16, 2008, file photo, Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III leaves the Ronald Reagan Federal Building after a hearing in Santa Ana, Calif. Authorities in Nevada have filed felony drug charges against the California tech billionaire and victim rights advocate arrested in August with what police said were briefcases full of drugs. Nicholas and a woman arrested with him, Ashley Fargo, were named in a complaint filed Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, in state court in Las Vegas.
Software
Tech Billionaire Faces Felony Drug Charges
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was found with what police say were suitcases full of drugs.
February 14, 2019
In this Sept. 29, 1994 file photo, a CSX Train with spent nuclear fuel passes through Florence, S.C., on its way to Savannah River Site Weapons Complex near Aiken S.C. Nevada is suing the federal government in a bid to stop plans to ship plutonium from South Carolina to a former U.S. nuclear proving ground north of Las Vegas. Outgoing Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, is again vowing that the state will fight the Department of Energy plan to store radioactive bomb-making material at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.
Regulation
Nevada Tries to Block Plutonium
State officials worry that an accident could permanently harm Las Vegas.
December 5, 2018
Penalty
Operations
Manufacturer Blocking Use of Execution Drug
Syringe, intravenous equipment and even latex glove manufacturers could follow suit to protect company reputations and avoid criticism.
July 27, 2018
This Nov. 10, 2016, file photo released by the Nevada Department of Corrections shows the newly completed execution chamber at Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev. Scott Raymond Dozier is slated to die at the prison by a three-drug lethal injection combination never before tried in any state.
Regulation
Drug Co. Sues Over Execution
Legal questions about whether pharmaceutical companies can block use of their drugs in the death penalty haven't been resolved.
July 12, 2018
In this Dec. 13, 2005 file photo, workers fill boxes with merchandise at the Amazon fulfillment center in Fernley, Nev. Online retailer Amazon said Wednesday, April 4, 2018, it will build another warehouse packing and distribution center in the Las Vegas area. The facility should open next year on 800,000-square-feet of vacant land east of Interstate 15, not far from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the company and city of North Las Vegas said in statements.
Supply Chain
Amazon Plans New Distribution Center
The center will generate more than 1,000 full-time jobs.
April 5, 2018
In this Aug. 6, 2002 file photo, Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Swedish multinational furniture retailer IKEA, stands outside the company's head office in Almhult, Sweden. IKEA confirmed Sunday Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who created a global furniture empire, has died at 91.
Product Development
IKEA Founder Dies at 91
He turned a small-scale mail order business started on his farm into a furniture empire.
January 29, 2018
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Work Stops at Faraday Site
Nevada has pledged up to $335 million in incentives to the upstart electric car company that is promising to have a vehicle rolling off a $1 billion assembly line by 2018.
November 16, 2016