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Maine officials blast California group for designating lobster as whale-killing seafood
Maine officials are ripping the recommendation of California-based nonprofit Seafood Watch to try to save whales by stopping fishing for lobster. The group argues that lobster fisheries in American and Canadian waters use vertical lines that can entangle the endangered North Atlantic right whales. “Seafood Watch determined that current Canadian and U.S. management measures do…
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SK Group to spend $22B on U.S. semiconductor, green energy projects, creating 16,000 jobs
The SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, announced Tuesday that it will spend $22 billion in the United States to fund semiconductor, green energy and bioscience projects. The investments will expand SK’s American workforce from 4,000 to 20,000 by 2025, President Biden said at a White House event with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-Won to…
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Eastern Shipbuilding Group files protest in loss of $3 billion Coast Guard contract to Austal USA
The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a contract worth up to $3 billion to an Australian shipbuilding company’s U.S. branch to turn out up to 11 new offshore patrol cutters (OPC), intended to replace ships that are up to 50 years old. But officials from the Florida-based company building the first four cutters for the Coast…
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Pro-Trump legal group accuses Amazon of racial discrimination
The pro-Trump group America First Legal launched a class action suit against Amazon on Wednesday, claiming the corporation is engaging in racist business practices by treating Black, Indian and Latino employees better than the company’s White and Asian workers. In a 5-page complaint filed in the Eastern District of Texas, America First Legal argued the…
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Jewish group sues Long Island beach town over turning its worship land into a lifeguard center
A Jewish group is waging a fight in federal court to keep the officials of a beach community on Long Island, New York, from turning their worship and outreach property into a lifeguard center. The village of Atlantic Beach has other options for building the lifeguard center closer to the beach but chose to take…