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FAA Orders Inspections After GE-Pratt Engine Blows Up on A380
The Federal Aviation Administration determined there was an “unsafe condition” that “is likely to exist or develop in other products of the same type design.” U.S. authorities ordered inspections of...
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Toyota, Honda Clear Aluminum Parts from Kobe Steel
Kobe Steel added nine items to its list of affected products, making 16, and said it was still checking the safety of five of them with customers.Toyota Motor Corp. cleared aluminum parts supplied by...
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Regulators Approve Emission Fix for Volkswagen Diesel SUVs in US
VW admitted in late 2015 that it rigged about 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide to cheat emissions tests, kicking off one of the largest corporate fraud scandals in the history of the global auto...
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Energy Firms Back Investment into Diesel Engine
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative said it was putting money into Achates Power, a U.S. company that promotes a high-efficiency combustion engine it says increases fuel efficiency while reducing...
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Colgate-Palmolive Settles Claims Over Asbestos in Talc
Colgate-Palmolive is facing 170 cases accusing it of selling asbestos-laced powder and has resolved 43 cases, while J&J is facing more than 5,500 claims.Colgate-Palmolive Co. agreed to settle a...
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Tesla's a Hotbed for Racist Behavior, Worker Claims in Suit
The employee says he’s one of more than 100 African-American Tesla workers affected and is seeking permission from a judge to sue on behalf of the group. Tesla Inc.’s production floor is a "hotbed for...
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VW Raided by German Prosecutors Over Labor Chief's Pay
The search is part of a probe into remuneration of works council chief Bernd Osterloh.German prosecutors raided Volkswagen AG’s headquarters in an investigation of whether the carmaker’s leadership...
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Mitsubishi Materials Says Two of Its Units Falsified Parts Data
Impacted products are used in industries including air, space, vehicle and electronics. Two units of Mitsubishi Materials Corp. falsified data on products that may have been delivered to more than 250...
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J&J Faces High-Stakes Appeal to Toss Pinnacle Hips Judgment
J&J and its DePuy unit, which makes the artificial hips, argues that the verdict should be reversed because there was insufficient evidence that the hips were defectively designed and deceptively...
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Apple Issuing a Second Green Bond to Finance Clean Energy
“It’s important to lend our voice in support of strong climate action.” Apple Inc. (IW 500/2), which issued the biggest green bond ever sold by a U.S. corporation last year to finance projects fighting...
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Subaru CEO Returns Pay After Inspection Scandal
Subaru recalled 395,000 vehicles from its domestic market last month after announcing in October that it had allowed uncertified staff to conduct inspections of some vehicles.TOKYO — The CEO of...
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Shell, Eni to Face Trial in $1 Billion Bribery Case
Prosecutors allege that Shell and Eni paid $1.1 billion into a Nigerian government escrow account for a deepwater oil-prospecting license and the funds were later distributed as payoffs.Royal Dutch...
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GM Wins Again as Two More Ignition-Switch Suits Are Thrown Out
The two cases were part of a second batch of bellwethers wending their way toward possible jury trials. The first batch was a mixed bag: four settled on nonpublic terms, while GM won three at trial and...
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BP Takes $1.7 Billion Charge on Deepwater Horizon Claims Closure
Cash payments related to Deepwater Horizon in 2018 are now anticipated to be about $3 billion.BP Plc expects to book a post-tax non-operating charge of about $1.7 billion in its fourth-quarter results,...
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VW Suspends Chief Lobbyist over Emission Tests on Monkeys
Separately, it emerged that a research group funded by VW, Daimler and BMW had ordered a study measuring the effects of inhaling nitrogen dioxide on human volunteers.Germany's scandal-hit auto giant...
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Three Strategies for Manufacturers to Address Escalating Citizen Science
Citizen science groups are eager to fill in what they see as gaps in EPA regulation and enforcement.While the manufacturing industry assesses the benefits of President Trump’s promised relaxation of...
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Daimler Downplays Report on Rigged US Emission Test Software
Documents reported on by Bild am Sonntag have “selectively been released in order to harm Daimler," the car manufacturer said. Daimler AG sought to play down a newspaper report that its own engineers...
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3M Faces New Cancer Claims as Minnesota Scotchgard Trial Begins
Controversy is growing over the main chemicals involved, PFOS and PFOA, as well as the entire class of perfluorinated compounds -- or PFCs -- which are still used in stainproof and waterproof...
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3M Settles Pollution Lawsuit for $850 Million
According to the lawsuit, 3M deposited PFC-related waste in the soil and water of the Twin Cities East Metro region between the 1950s and early 2000s.3M Company, accused of polluting water and soil in...
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Prosecutors Raid Homes of Ex-Audi Executives in Expanded Probe
The latest raids bring to 17 the number of people under investigation for diesel-engine rigging at Audi, part of Volkswagen AG.German prosecutors broadened a criminal investigation of Audi AG’s role in...
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