14 Dec Virginia Board Approves Six-Year Improvement Program for Transportation The Commonwealth Transportation Board recently approved Virginia’s transportation improvement program, which aims to advance projects on schedule despite the financial ramifications of COVID-19. Read more...
14 Dec Strick Deepens Cooper Tires Partnership Strick Trailers announced all of its trailers will be equipped with Cooper Tires PRO Series LHT Trailer tire beginning in 2021. The tire is part of Cooper’s line of fuel-efficient SmartWay verified tires and meets the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas emissions requirements. Read more...
14 Dec Exxon Announces New Emissions Targets After Investor Criticism Exxon Mobil Corp. announced several new emissions targets and said it would begin publishing pollution information related to customers’ use of its products for the first time, just days after activist investors criticized the oil giant for its environmental record. Read more...
14 Dec UAW Agrees to Monitor, Voting Changes After Corruption Probe DETROIT — An independent monitor will watch the United Auto Workers’ finances and operations, and members will decide how they pick future leaders under a reform agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office. Read more...
14 Dec ‘External Source’ Causes Oil Tanker Blast Off Saudi Arabia DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Dec. 14 after being hit by “an external source,” a shipping company said. Read more...
14 Dec DTNA Says Portland Plant Will Be First to Achieve Carbon-Neutral Production Daimler Trucks North America announced its truck manufacturing plant in Portland, Ore., will be the first to achieve carbon-neutral production in the global Daimler Trucks network — meeting green production this year. Read more...
14 Dec Amazon’s Zoox Unveils Autonomous Electric Vehicle Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon .com Inc., unveiled a fully autonomous electric vehicle with no steering wheel that can drive day and night on a single charge. Read more...
13 Dec UPS, FedEx Trucks Begin Vaccine Shipments KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The first shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States headed Dec. 13 from Michigan to distribution centers across the country, with the first shots expected to be given in the coming week to health care workers and at nursing homes. Read more...
11 Dec Pfizer Vaccine Cleared in US Pfizer Inc. gained emergency U.S. authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 11, completing an unprecedented scientific sprint that could eventually help bring an end to a pandemic that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Read more...
11 Dec Oil Ekes Out Weekly Gain After Retreating From Nine-Month High Oil just managed a weekly gain as an impasse in Washington over pandemic relief dimmed chances of an imminent boost to demand. Read more...