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Trump Taps Keith Sonderling as Labor Secretary, Signaling Shift on Workforce Priorities
20+ hour, 19+ min ago (213+ words) SHEET METAL: Keith Sonderling, tapped by President Trump to serve as Labor Secretary, speaks with sheet metal workers and leaders in Philadelphia about the future of American jobs. President Trump's nomination of Keith Sonderling as Secretary of Labor is more…...
National Technical Institute Plans New Nevada Campus
22+ hour, 6+ min ago (293+ words) SPARKS, Nev. National Technical Institute (NTI) plans to open a new campus in the Reno-Sparks, Nevada, area this fall. NTI's 8, 000-square-foot campus in The Oddie District, a planned maker space and innovation and arts center, will have the capacity to…...
Partnership With Metallica's Nonprofit to Advance Trades Training
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (202+ words) METALLICA SCHOLARS: Service Titan and All Within My Hands, a nonprofit backed by the heavy metal band Metallica, have teamed up to support skilled trades training. LOS ANGELES "Service Titan, which offers software platforms for trades businesses, has partnered with…...
HVAC Enrollment Is Outperforming Broader Vocational Education
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (1226+ words) PRACTICAL MATTERS: As trade enrollment increases, education bridges training with on-the-job readiness for program innovators. An online Skill Cat Job Ready lesson exercise setup. " HVAC training programs are seeing some of the strongest enrollment growth in years, signaling renewed interest…...
SCOTUS Declines to Hear Refrigerant Case Seeking to Curb EPA Power
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (287+ words) UPHELD: By declining to take up the Choice Refrigerants case, SCOTUS has left in place a lower-court ruling that affirms the EPA's powers within the AIM Act." The U. S. Supreme Court has denied certiorari in a refrigerant case that sought to…...
Celebrating the Women Shaping HVACR's Future
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (295+ words) NOMINATIONS OPEN: Nominations are open through Thursday, July 9, for The ACHR News2026 Top Women in HVAC awards program. Nominations are now open for The ACHR News 2026 Top Women in HVAC program, which recognizes women making a lasting impact across the industry....
Predictive Maintenance's Value Isn't the Software " It's the Outcome
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (586+ words) The debate in predictive maintenance is often framed the wrong way. People talk about "independent software" versus "contractor-led platforms," as if the most important question is who wrote the code. It is not. The real question is much simpler: is…...
Customer Service Is Not Dead: How an R. E. Michel Sales Representative Saved the Day
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (539+ words) EXTRA DETAILS: Eugene Ivey, sales representative with R. E. Michel, holding the REHAU PEX O2 barrier "-inch tubing that saved the day at NCI. Dominick Guarino, NCI's CEO, brought me and Adam Mufich to Tennessee foraweek to finish the installation. Everythingwas going great…...
How to Solve the Toughest Challenges in Commercial HVAC Retrofits
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (233+ words) INSULATION: Ryne Sullivan, national sales manager at Kingspan Insulation North America, discusses the latest advances in duct system technology and what it takes to deliver high-performance retrofits in today's built environment. The result is a system that is safer to…...
Have Heat Pumps Had It? 1960s Series Questioned the Equipment's Future
6+ day, 36+ min ago (1204+ words) BOLD PREDICTIONS: An anonymous engineer from a major manufacturer didn't place a lot of confidence on the heat pump's future" "In our opinion, the residential air-source heat pump will never be an important factor in the air conditioning industry." It's…...