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Boar’s Head liverwurst has lined its last lunchbox. Boar’s Head announced this past Friday that it will stop making the deli counter’s most controversial cold cut. Liverwurst is a victim of the fallout from a listeria outbreak that led to a massive product recall. BOAR’S HEAD DISCONTINUES PRODUCT, CLOSES FACILITY LINKED TO LISTERIA OUTBREAK ‘INDEFINITELY’ “Our investigation has identified the …

EXCLUSIVE: In a strike against the latest EPA regulations, a unified front of three powerful coalitions is set to launch a legal juggernaut, representing 30 petitioners, on Thursday. The legal challenge seeks to overturn the EPA’s controversial and stringent new vehicle emissions standards that have sparked widespread debate across the country. The three coalitions, representing consumer groups, biofuel producers, agricultural …

The discovery of the potential for thousands of tons of lithium to be extracted annually from wastewater generated by fracking in the Marcellus Shale leaves proponents of a green energy future at a crossroads, Republicans said Thursday. A University of Pittsburgh study suggested processing byproducts from natural gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale basin could potentially meet nearly half of …

“Cheers” star and voice actor in the “Toy Story” franchise, John Ratzenberger, spoke to Fox News Digital about his support for former President Donald Trump, stating that the president is a builder who knows how important it is for America to have a resurgence in manufacturing and skilled labor jobs. Ratzenberger, who made a living from carpentry in between acting …

A Tennessee-based sanitation company has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia. The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC entered into a consent judgment, in which the company agrees to …

The United States will suffer in the race to command the development of artificial intelligence (AI) if production and manufacture of semiconductor chips and processors remain offshore, according to an industry expert. “If you’re not making things and all you’re doing is designing the software, and maybe designing the chips, but they’re completely built and packaged elsewhere, you don’t end …

A Vietnamese-based company will build its first North American solar panel manufacturing plant in eastern North Carolina, creating over 900 jobs, officials announced on Friday. Boviet Solar along with Gov. Roy Cooper and other government officials revealed at an East Carolina University news conference the company’s plans to invest almost $300 million in a 1 million square-foot advanced manufacturing facility …

An aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its preferred site for a new aluminum smelter that would bring about 1,000 permanent jobs to an Appalachian region hard hit by the loss of coal and steel production, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. Plans by Century Aluminum Co. to build a smelter that produces dramatically lower emissions will be supported …