• Health

One Safe Thing: National Parks Mask Up

• COVID-19
• masks
• National Park Service

Rugged outdoorsmen, post quarantine vacationers, and first-time campers can now breathe easy at the nation’s national parks, even as Delta variant cases continue to rise. The National Park Service has reinstated mask requirements for all visitors at national parks while indoors or at crowded outdoor gatherings. The mandate will apply to all guests regardless of vaccination status. Although the chances are […]

• People

Hero of the Week: Caroline Shaw, and Her Colleagues at GE Renewable Energy

• 3D printer
• coronavirus
• COVID-19
• General Electric
• masks
• N95 masks
• renewable energy
• wind turbine

For Caroline Shaw, a sourcing manager at a GE wind turbine plant in Florida, the “light bulb went on” after she had to hand out face masks (known as N95s) to a team of coworkers who were tasked with screening their fellow employees for COVID-19. With shortages of masks everywhere it is important to use […]

• Air

Tesla and other US Car Companies Suspend EV Plants — GM Will Make Ventilators and Masks

• Defense Production Act
• Ford
• General Motors
• masks
• Tesla
• ventilators

The President late on Friday finally used his Defense Production Act authority to order General Motors to begin to make ventilators, and the CEO Elon Musk of Tesla said the company’s New York electric vehicle factory will reopen in order to make ventilators and will also purchase and donate devices to the New York hospitals.

Why This Matters:  EV manufacturing shutdowns particularly impact the next wave of EVs that were about to start to roll off the assembly line – such as Volkswagen’s ID.3 and Tesla’s Model Y.