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Members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works sharply criticized President Bush’s nominee for head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, objecting to the agency’s stance on certain industrial pollutants.

Even modest shortages of crude oil supplies this summer could boost retail fuel prices to beyond their records of last fall following the big Gulf Coast hurricanes, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

FedEx Corp.’s less-than-truckload unit, FedEx Freight, said late Friday it will implement a 5.95% general rate increase effective April 24.

U.S. payrolls rose 211,000 in March and the unemployment rate fell to 4.7% from 4.8% the previous month, the Labor Department said Friday.

U.S. wholesale inventories rose 0.8% in February, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Mullen Group Income Fund said late Thursday it signed an agreement to buy a Canadian investment firm. Terms were not disclosed.

Package delivery firm CD&L Inc. said Friday it earned $613,000 or 6 cents a share, down from $914,000 or 4 cents a year earlier for its fourth quarter ended March 31.

Warren Hoemann, the current deputy administrator — and acting administrator — of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said Friday he would be leaving the agency in mid-May.

Truck maker Navistar International Corp. plans to restate earnings results from 2002 through most of 2005 and has replaced its outside auditor, the company said Friday.

Gasoline and diesel retail prices may jump to more than $3 a gallon this summer during the traditional peak driving season, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday.