When VF Corp. received a list of potential cities to consider for its consolidation of outdoor and activewear brands and headquarters move, North Carolina and the Southeast in general failed to make the cut. The announcement was made Monday that VF would move its headquarters and consolidate some of its brand to Denver, on top of spinning off the Wrangler and Lee brands into an independent, publicly traded company that will be based in Greensboro. 

The Trump administration rolled out its proposal for gutting former President Barack Obama's most sweeping climate change regulation Tuesday - a move that could also block any future Democratic president from trying to put it back together. The proposal from the EPA goes to the core of the criticisms that the coal industry and conservatives lodged against Obama's 2015 regulation, which used a novel reading of the Clean Air Act to require states to cut greenhouse gas pollution from the power sector. The replacement from President Donald Trump's EPA would give states far more leeway to meet more modest climate goals - or even to opt out of the program entirely.