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News Tipoffs - Tennessee Editors Newsletter for Wednesday June 04, 2025 ( 4 items )  

Biological monitoring program marks 40 years of stewarding DOE lands
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Biological monitoring program marks 40 years of stewarding DOE lands * Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program, or BMAP, is marking 40 years of helping steward the Department of Energy's 33,476 acres of land on which some of the nation's most powerful science and technology missions are carried out. BMAP began in the mid-  more

EEOC Sues Carlstar for Disability Discrimination
WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * EEOC Sues Carlstar for Disability Discrimination * Tire Manufacturer Terminated Employees for Using Prescription Medications, Federal Agency Charges ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI - The Carlstar Group LLC, a Tennessee-based manufacturer of specialty tires and wheels, violated federal law when it discriminated against employees at its facilities in Clinton and Jackson, Tennessee, and Aiken, South  more

U.S. Chemical Safety Board Issues Final Report on Fatal 2024 Explosion at the TS USA Facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TNSbrep) -- The U.S. Chemical Safety Board issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Chemical Safety Board Issues Final Report on Fatal 2024 Explosion at the TS USA Facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee WASHINGTON, D.C. Jun 3, 2025 - The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) today released its final report into the fatal explosion and eruption at the Techniques Surfaces USA ("TS USA") liquid nitriding facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that fatally in  more

Using AI to construct on the level
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Using AI to construct on the level * Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a tool that gives builders a quick way to measure, correct and certify level foundations. FLAT, or the Flat and Level Analysis Tool, examines a 360-degree laser scan of a construction site using ORNL-developed segmentation algorithms and machine learning to locate  more