DOT Releases Early Fatality Data
The Department of Transportation said highway deaths fell 10% for the first 10 months of 2008 and said it expects fatalities to be at an all-time low when the full year totals are calculated.
December 12, 2008Producer Price Index Drops 2.2%
Prices paid to U.S. producers fell 2.2% in November, the Labor Department said Friday.
December 12, 2008Business Inventories Take Largest Drop in Five Years
Business inventories fell 0.6% in October, the largest decline in five years, the Commerce Department said Friday.
December 12, 2008Retail Sales Fall by For Fifth Straight Month
Retail sales fell 1.8% in November, the fifth consecutive month of decline, led by a continued drop in automobile and gasoline sales, the Commerce Department said Friday.
December 12, 2008Oil Rises 10% as OPEC Eyes Production Cuts
Oil prices rose almost $5, or 10%, to near $48 a barrel Thursday after Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said OPEC may set production cuts next week, Bloomberg reported.
December 11, 2008California Eyes Requiring Particulate Filters on All Heavy Trucks
California regulators are considering a first-in-the-nation plan that would require almost all privately owned heavy-duty trucks in the state to install particulate filters to reduce soot emissions by 85%, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday.
December 11, 2008Obama Chooses Heads of DOE, EPA
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the Nobel-prize-winning head of a California research institute and a former New Jersey environmental official to fill his cabinet positions heading the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
December 11, 2008Import Prices Fall 6.7% in November
The price of goods imported to the United States fell 6.7% in November, the largest drop since recording began in 1988, the Labor Department said Thursday.
December 11, 2008Infrastructure Program Funding May Reach $20 Billion
Federal funding highway infrastructure projects in an economic stimulus plan may be about $20 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing a group that represents state transportation officials.
December 11, 2008DOT Freight Transport Index Drops 0.6% in October
The Department of Transportation’s freight transportation services index fell 0.6% in October from a year ago, leaving it at its lowest level for the month of October in five years.
December 10, 2008