May 10--The flood of domestic oil produced over the past five years has boosted jobs, royalty payments and contributions to tax coffers. It also has led to higher profits, and not just for the oil producers. It's quarterly earnings season, the time when publicly...

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By RAY HENRY ATLANTA - Federal regulators are investigating whether workers at a factory that supplies parts to nuclear plants broke quality control rules and falsified records, according to regulatory filings. A dozen workers at the Shaw Modular Solutions facility in Lake Charles, La.,...

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May 10--An Albuquerque supply well that long pumped water up from underground will reverse direction next week in an experiment to pump some of the metro area's water supply underground for later use. At Webster Well No. 1, housed in a small concrete building off Paseo del...

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The White House on Thursday announced two business-friendly initiatives to coordinate U.S. manufacturing and manage federal data helpful to job creation. The first plan calls for the creation of three new manufacturing "innovation institutes," with the aim of coordinating resources, including education, training and local infrastructure to...

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KNOXVILLE -- The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory hired the 11th joint Governor's Chair, an advanced manufacturing expert from Ohio State University. Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, a professor in the Welding Engineering Program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has conducted research that...

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