MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Dec. 8 -- Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on Dec. 7, 2023: Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Miele, the world's leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, has selected Opelika as the location for a U.S. manufacturing hub that will employ hundreds of workers. Germany-based Miele is launching a long-term growth project in the East Alabama city that ultimately will create several hundred jobs and see the company build a major product  more

OPELIKA, Alabama, Dec. 8 -- The Alabama Department of Commerce posted the following news: Miele, the world's leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, has selected Opelika as the location for a U.S. manufacturing hub that will employ hundreds of workers, according to an announcement today by Governor Kay Ivey. Germany-based Miele is launching a long-term growth project in the East Alabama city that ultimately will create several hundred jobs and see the company build a major product  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Dec. 7, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced today they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and potentially other Federal facilities in TVA's service territory, with 100% locally supplied carbon pollution-free electricity (CFE) by 2030. In Dec  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 8 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, co-led a coalition of 22 state attorneys general in calling for an end to Mississippi's regime of large-scale, permanent felon voter disenfranchisement. Raoul and the attorneys general filed an amicus brief (https://ilag-dev.dotcms.cloud/dA/db5c75df-800f-480d-b4  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, Dec. 9 -- The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following news release: Mississippi is one of seven states to receive an A grade in the 2023 National Report Card on State Efforts to Improve Financial Literacy in High Schools released this month. Other states receiving A grades are Alabama, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia. The report was produced by the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College in Vermont. The center issued A grades to s  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Mary Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientist, Sasa Gabersek, Ph.D., will present findings from the Air-Sea Interaction Affecting Fog Formation experiment over the Yellow Sea at this year's American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California, December 11-15. Marine fog affects land, air, and water-based   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The U.S. International Trade Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 8, 2023: The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia that are allegedly sold in the United States at less than fair value and subsidized by the governments of Ecuador and Indonesia and imports of frozen warmwa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country $8.2 Billion from the President's Investing in America Agenda to Deliver Transformative Passenger Rail in America President Biden's Investing in America Agenda - a key pillar of Bidenomics - is delivering world class-infrastructure across the country, expanding access to econo  more