Industrials

As commodities continue to get pounded, with the majority in a severe downtrend in November, U.S. manufacturing, led by the struggling energy sector, has been pushed into a recession. 

Preliminary research and comments by several federal agencies on the volatility of crude oil from North Dakota shows that Bakken crude has been unfairly singled out in safety discussions, oil industry representatives said Tuesday.

Officials say Palisades nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan has shut down due to an equipment failure and will get an early start on a planned $58 million refueling and maintenance project.

More than 40 workers who weren't injured but lost their jobs after a deadly power plant explosion in Connecticut are hoping the state Supreme Court allows them to sue several contractors for hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed wages.

One of the biggest uranium mines in Wyoming, the nation's top producer of the radioactive metal, proposes to more than double in size within the next two years.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is shipping his space business to Florida.

The U.S. secretary of transportation says New York City will be the main testing ground for a smart device installed in vehicles to warn motorists of impending dangers and congestion.

Site investigations and some cleanup work at 10 polluted mining complexes in four states were suspended because of conditions similar to those that led to a massive wastewater blowout from an inactive Colorado gold mine, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said.

More than 14,000 toy fishing games that pose a choking hazard to children are among this week's recalled consumer products.

An Alabama company that made a tractor-trailer hitch involved in a deadly Ohio crash last year is bowing to government pressure and will recall 6,800 hitches.

More than a year after suing the Cabinet agency that oversees China's biggest state-owned companies, lawyers for people who say their homes were ruined by Chinese drywall are still trying to get the lawsuit served.

A Murray Energy subsidiary and the United Mine Workers of America have settled a lawsuit over the company's use of non-union workers to perform work on seals at an underground coal mine in north-central West Virginia.

An athletic building under construction at a private Rhode Island university has collapsed, injuring six construction workers.

Toyota plans to spend $16 million to renovate and expand a central Indiana factory where it builds three-and four-wheel forklifts and other equipment.

Greek police have arrested two union leaders after hundreds of miners blocked roads to protest the temporary closure of a controversial gold mine in northern Greece.

The Seabrook Station nuclear power plant was conceived during the turbulent 1970s and was under construction when accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl stoked fears of a global nuclear calamity.

On a remote Utah ridge, a Canadian company is about to embark on something never before done commercially in the United States — digging sticky, black, tar-soaked sand from the ground and extracting the petroleum.

Verso Paper Corp. will significantly scale back production in Maine, costing 300 jobs at its mill in Jay, officials with the Tennessee-based company Thursday.

The Chemours Co. is closing its Delaware titanium dioxide production facility, which employs about 200 workers, the former performance chemicals business spun off from the DuPont Co. said Thursday.

U.S. Steel Corp. says it is closing its Fairfield Works mill near Birmingham, Alabama.