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...“I flew down to Arkansas really out of curiosity. I thought it might just be a one-day field trip,” she says....
...Brazos Electric Power Cooperative — a generation and transmission company that serves co-operatives across the state, many of which serve poorer rural areas — said it faced more than $2.1bn in bills for...
...Arkansas-based Walmart said that it was clear by May last year “that Tesla had breached its contractual obligations”....
...US natural gas and electric utility CenterPoint Energy agreed to purchase Vectren for more than $8bn on Monday....
...Walmart on Friday confirmed that it has pre-ordered 15 of Tesla’s new heavy duty electric trucks....
...Investors stocked up on Walmart shares on Tuesday after the big box retailer issued an upbeat earnings guidance and announced a $20bn share buyback programme ahead of its annual investor day in Bentonville, Arkansas...
...Investors hit the brakes on Tesla shares after analysts at Goldman Sachs soured on the electric carmaker, citing risks to the launch of its Model 3 mass market vehicle and its proposed tie-up with Solar...
...Last year, Indiana and Arkansas both amended their religious freedom laws following criticism from companies including General Electric, Walmart and Apple....
...Earlier this year, the chief executives of General Electric, Apple and Walmart all spoke out against “religious freedom” bills in Indiana and Arkansas that were widely seen as allowing discrimination against...
...The Indiana and Arkansas measures sparked condemnation from a growing number of big companies, including General Electric, Walmart, and Apple....
...So the marque is launching a restructuring programme and scrapping its ‘Q-branch’ experiments with electric cars. No word yet on who might be in the line of fire....
...Arkansas and Indiana have been forced to reconsider controversial “religious freedom” laws amid cascading criticism from a broad cross-section of US society and big corporations such as General Electric,...
...(FT) Corporate backlash against religious freedom bills Arkansas and Indiana have been forced to reconsider their controversial “religious freedom” laws after companies such as General Electric, Walmart...
...The Arkansas-based retailer is being advised by Barclays. JPMorgan is working with BC Partners. Walmart, BC Partners, JPMorgan, Barclays, Carrefour and Tesco all declined to comment....
...Whirlpool said last October it was shutting a plant in Arkansas, while Electrolux closed a plant in Iowa. Both moved production to Mexico....
...Last week a ban on beef shipments was widened to four northeastern Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, home to Tokyo Electric Power’s stricken Daiichi nuclear power plant....
...Caterpillar, the earth-moving equipment company, has been expanding its plants in southern states including Texas and Arkansas but still retains Illinois as its principal centre in the US....
...More than half of the budget will be spent in the US to build capacity, going towards projects such as an excavator factory in Texas and a motor-grader facility in Arkansas....
...ABB has plugged a big gap in its US coverage through an agreed $4.2bn bid for Baldor Electric Company, a leading maker of industrial motors....
...French worries about Chinese groups illicitly acquiring Renault’s electric-car technology led to accusations against the three executives gaining their own momentum....
...You decouple the electric bill from the electric usage by allowing the utility to charge the consumer more per kilowatt hour, but not so much more that they don’t always get a rate cut....
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