US aims to speed heat pump manufacturing using Cold War-era law
The U.S. will fund nine projects with $169 million from last year’s climate bill to speed manufacturing of heat pumps, systems that can heat and cool homes and businesses more…
For China, Promises Made Are Almost Always Promises Broken
China’s Communist Party (CCP) gives no sign of altering its policies, either at home or abroad. Beijing continues to reject cooperation with the United States on fundamental questions of national…
Jewish Couple Fighting Fast Fashion with Sustainable, LA-Made Clothing Brand
Jewish couple Joe Willis and Shayna Samuels created City Threads, a sustainable children’s apparel brand that sells styles that are locally knit and dyed in Los Angeles. City Threads offers…
U.S. Clothing Company Combats Supply Chain Holdups by Growing Its Own Cotton
The company attributes its domestic manufacturing to the recent acquisition of Buck Mason Knitting Mills in Pennsylvania. The factory and an affiliated mill, first opened in 1878 and 1906, respectively,…
Letter: Pay attention to packaging
A regional big box store is sourcing its frozen broccoli from China. Farms in the USA are struggling to stay afloat and this company is sourcing its frozen broccoli from…
Congress ignores Biden veto threat to repeal waiver requiring EV chargers to be made in America
The Senate has voted in favor of reinstating a requirement in the roughly $65 billion, bipartisan infrastructure bill of 2021 that requires funded projects – including those for electric vehicle…
Lavish Tax Credits and Trade Protections Lure Solar Firms to U.S.
China has loomed large over the industry for more than a decade. American demand for solar power has grown sharply since 2010 — by about 24 percent each year in…
More medical gloves are coming from China, as U.S. makers of protective gear struggle
Glove-manufacturing projects got about $290 million in public funding, part of a roughly $1.5-billion investment made by the federal government since the start of the pandemic to boost American production…
Sullivan provision closes another loophole to ‘keep American fish in, foreign fish out’
U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 81 of his fellow senators Wednesday passed legislation that included a Sullivan amendment to close a loophole allowing Chinese seafood, or Russian seafood laundered…