The Tennessee Valley Authority, which plans to convert its entire passenger car fleet and at least half of its cargo vehicles to electric vehicles by 2030, is testing out a new version of Volkswagen's SUV to use for its line maintenance crews.
Company already has trained 40,000 cooks
When Chattanooga was soaked with nearly two-and-a-half inches of rain in only a few hours Aug. 10, the city was able to divert more than 18 million gallons of stormwater runoff and sanitary sewage from parts of the city into three new giant storage tanks that have been erected on Moccasin Bend to prevent the deluge of sewer water from overwhelming the nearby sewage treatment plant.
Sales of new cars and trucks dropped by 16.8% in Hamilton County during the third quarter of this year in the worst-selling summer for new vehicles in Chattanooga in more than a decade.
City utility offers free audits of energy use in your home, advice on upgrades
An Iowa-based producer of food-grade stocks, broths and fats used by a variety of food producers is expanding to North Georgia with plans to build a $100 million plant in Dalton.
New law offers $10 billion to create 20 new innovation hubs
The Tennessee Valley Authority has cut its carbon emission by nearly 60% since 2005 by shutting down more than half of the 59 coal-fired generating units the utility once operated, and the federal utility is developing plans to shut down even more of its coal power plants by the end of the decade.
In its second purchase of another packaging company in as many years, Southern Champion Tray (SCT) is buying substantially all the assets of Evergreen Packaging in La Mirada, California.
The CEO of American Airlines said Monday that his airline needed a partnership with JetBlue because Delta Air Lines had bulked up through a merger sooner than American, had more takeoff and landing rights at New York airports, and fewer unionized workers.
