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USA TODAY  May 23, 12:03 AM

When hotel guests leave their room during the day, a magnetic door sensor tells the thermostat to reduce the heating or cooling. When they come back, it has the temperature return to their selected degree. The programmable thermostat is one of several energy-efficiency features installed last year...

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Oregonian (Portland, OR)  May 23, 08:57 AM

May 22--Jordan Cove Energy Project filed its formal application Tuesday with federal regulators to build a liquefied natural gas export facility on the north spit of Coos Bay. The project's developers described this week's filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a "major milestone," though the...

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Jiji Press English News Service  May 22, 05:12 PM

Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. are in talks on their joint construction of a coal-fired thermal power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo, informed sources said Wednesday. This is a rare move in the Japanese power industry where...

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Associated Press/AP Online  May 23, 02:29 PM

By YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO - Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to...

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USA TODAY  May 20, 03:31 AM

For decades, U.S. manufacturers fled the country for China to drive down labor costs, then shipped products halfway around the world to sell to Americans, costing the U.S. millions of jobs. Now, some foreign manufacturers are turning that offshoring trend on its head. In 2011, British-based Rolls-Royce...

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Associated Press/AP Online  May 23, 05:00 AM

By PAMELA SAMPSON BANGKOK - The price of oil fell below $93 per barrel Thursday after a survey showed manufacturing activity in China falling to its lowest level in seven months, a sign that the recovery in the world's No. 2 economy is fading. ...