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General Mills Closing Three Plants in Supply-Chain Restructuring – The Wall Street Journal

General Mills Closing Three Plants in Supply-Chain Restructuring  The Wall Street Journal General Mills unveils moves to consolidate capacity and improve its cost structure  Seeking Alpha General Mills Announces Major Supply Chain Restructuring  TipRanks General Mills announces facility closures and restructuring charges in supply chain initiative  Investing.com Source link

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Trump opens land for coal mining, offers to boost coal-fired power plants

Trump opens land for coal mining, offers to boost coal-fired power plants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as President Donald Trump continues his efforts to reverse the years-long decline in the U.S. coal industry. Actions by the Energy and Interior departments and the Environmental Protection Agency …

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Swedish Company Creates Zero Emission Metal Using Hydrogen While Coal Plants Become Obsolete

Swedish Company Creates Zero Emission Metal Using Hydrogen While Coal Plants Become Obsolete

IN A NUTSHELL 🌿 The partnership between SSAB and GE Vernova introduces a new steel with near-zero carbon emissions. 🔧 SSAB Zero steel is produced using hydrogen-reduced iron and renewable energy sources. 🌍 This innovation aligns with the International Energy Agency’s decarbonization goals. 🤝 The collaboration exemplifies the potential of industry-wide sustainability efforts. The steel industry, long a significant contributor …

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U.S. to impose 100% tariff on branded, patented drugs unless firms build plants locally, Trump says

U.S. to impose 100% tariff on branded, patented drugs unless firms build plants locally, Trump says

Shelf of pharmaceutical products. D3sign | Moment | Getty Images President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on “any branded or patented Pharmaceutical Product” entering the country from Oct. 1. The measure will not apply to companies building drug manufacturing plants in the U.S., Trump added. He said that the exemption covers projects where …

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Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants

Kenrick, P. & Crane, P. R. The origin and early evolution of plants on land. Nature 389, 33–39 (1997). Article  CAS  Google Scholar  Bowman, J. L. The origin of a land flora. Nat. Plants 8, 1352–1369 (2022). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Graham, L. E., Cook, M. E. & Busse, J. S. The origin of plants: body plan changes contributing to …

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Boeing workers reject latest contract offer, extending strike at three Midwest plants

Boeing workers reject latest contract offer, extending strike at three Midwest plants

Another contract proposal has been rejected by Boeing workers who now have been on strike for nearly six weeks from three Midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed. READ MORE: Thousands of Boeing workers who build fighter jets just went on strike The vote on Friday refusing the latest proposal sends the workers back to the picket lines, according to …

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Boeing workers reject proposal, extend strike at Midwest plants

Boeing workers reject proposal, extend strike at Midwest plants

Another contract proposal has been rejected by Boeing workers who now have been on strike for nearly six weeks from three Midwest plants where military aircraft and weapons are developed. The vote on Friday refusing the latest proposal sends the workers back to the picket lines, according to the union representing the 3,200 striking workers who build fighter jets, weapons …

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New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

And, well, it worked remarkably well. The plants carrying all the genes for the McG cycle weighed two to three times as much as control plants that only had some of the genes. They had more leaves, the leaves themselves were larger, and the plants produced more seeds. In a variety of growing conditions, the plants with an intact McG cycle …

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Pocket Scion is a synth you play with plants

Pocket Scion is a synth you play with plants

A few years ago, artist Modern Biology became a viral sensation when he posted videos of himself controlling a modular synth with mushrooms on TikTok. Pocket Scion gives anyone similar capabilities, but without having to spend thousands of dollars on a Eurorack rig – and in a much more portable package. A core part of Modern Biology’s setup is a …

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