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GOVERNOR STEIN ANNOUNCES JETZERO SELECTS NORTH CAROLINA FOR $4 BILLION AIRPLANE MANUFACTURING HUB, CREATING 14,500 JOBS IN GUILFORD COUNTY IN LARGEST JOB COMMITMENT IN STATE HISTORY
Innovative aviation company to build first commercial all-wing jet
Raleigh, NC – Governor Josh Stein announced JetZero…
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State Business Climate Rankings: No Policy Value
Correction from Good Jobs First:
As originally issued on May 1, this report stated that the Beacon Hill Institute’s State Competitiveness Index used fabricated data. This assertion drew from a misunderstanding on our part that arose over the decision by BHI to include only some of the variables in…

SMLC to Launch Open Smart Mfg. Tech
The Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) has won a 2013 U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) clean energy manufacturing contract to begin developing the nation’s first open smart manufacturing technology platform for collaborative industrial networked information applications.
The $10 million project, headed by the SMLC, will receive $7.8…

Major Chemical Investments in Louisiana
Huntsman Corp. and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. have recently made significant expansion announcements in Geismar, Ascension Parish. Huntsman Corp. will conduct a $78 million expansion at its Geismar chemical facility. The company will yield a 50-kiloton increase in the facility’s output of methylene diphenyl isocyanate, a…

Texas Issues Electronics Industry Report
The Texas Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism recently published a report on the state’s booming electronics industry.
The electronics industry is an integral part of the Texas’ current, past, and future economic diversity. Texas, No. 1 in electronic exports, has been a leader in the tech…

25x'25 Alliance: Adapting to Climate Change
A report recently issued by the 25x’25 Alliance offers recommendations that will enable the U.S. agriculture and forestry sectors to meet the challenges posed by increasingly variable and unpredictable weather.
The report,”Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate: Adaptation Recommendations,” notes the impacts of changing weather patterns…