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Groundbreaking on new BMW Group high-voltage battery assembly plant in South Carolina

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The BMW Group broke ground for a new high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina. Close connection of battery production with vehicle production is part of our strategy. The high-voltage battery assembly basically requires no water. billion in its South Carolina operations. Earlier post.)

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Scout Motors' South Carolina Factory to Focus on Sustainability

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Volkswagen will roll out new Scout-branded EVs in the coming years, and its South Carolina factory is well underway. Water usage will be closely monitored, and Spies believes VW and Scout’s efforts will become selling points as customers ask questions about automakers’ sustainability. “At We need to support saving water here.”

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Bridgestone develops tire using 75% recycled and renewable materials; recycled plastic bottles, recycled steel and natural rubber from guayule

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Designed and engineered at Bridgestone’s Americas Technology Center in Akron, Ohio, the new tires were produced at the company’s Aiken County Passenger/Light Truck Radial Tire Plant in Graniteville, South Carolina. Guayule is part of Bridgestone’s plan to achieve carbon neutrality and make tires from 100% sustainable materials by 2050.

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BMW Group to source lower CO2 aluminum from Rio Tinto in Canada from 2024

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The planned supply volumes will be used exclusively in vehicle production at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, in body components such as the hood, for example. Compared to conventionally manufactured aluminum, this approach can save around 70% of CO 2 emissions.

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Lead organization. Description.

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3 Duke Energy subsidiaries plead guilty to 9 criminal violations of Clean Water Act; $102M settlement

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As part of their plea agreements, Duke Energy Business Services LLC, Duke Energy Carolinas LLC and Duke Energy Progress Inc. Approximately 108 million tons of coal ash are currently held in coal ash basins owned and operated by the defendants in North Carolina. million tons of coal ash); Kentucky (approximately 1.5

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Savoring the Summer at 5 Waterside Hotels

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And at these five properties you can make the most of the season, whether you want to splash in the ocean off the Maine coast, paddle board across a reservoir in upstate New York, kayak in a Rhode Island bay, or laze by a river on a South Carolina island. The Catskills, N.Y. At this luxury escape in White Lake, N.Y., Beginning Aug.