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While a Senate subcommittee examines recommendations to crack down on oil companies charged with manipulating supply to prop up fuel prices, the world’s main oil cartel is having trouble keeping the price of crude oil where it wants it.

AUSTIN, Texas - Two heavy-duty diesel engine makers said they expect to have their 2002 lower-emission engines certified by the Environmental Protection Agency this month, and another two said they expect approval by August.

The U.S. employment picture brightened slightly with a drop in the number filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week, as reported by the Labor Department, coupled with a separate report of a drop in the number of announced job cuts in April.

WASHINGTON — Trucking industry leaders urged the government to embrace security measures that freight transportation companies are already employing, and pressed their case for tougher screening of employees through access to a federal database on criminal records.

The chairman of a House committee last week said the House is likely to approve legislation to open Nevada’s Yucca Mountain repository for spent nuclear fuel.

New orders at U.S. manufacturers rose 0.4% in March, to $318.5 billion, after being revised upward the month before, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

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Five years after California passed its ergonomics regulations to protect workers against repetitive stress injuries, state trucking company violations have been negligible if not non-existent, said Warren Hoemann, vice president of the 2,500-member California Trucking Association.

Growth in manufacturing and construction spending – both key economic indicators -- slowed in April and March, respectively.