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President Barack Obama’s goals of boosting U.S. exports and combating climate change are colliding as the U.S. Export-Import Bank expands financing for oil, gas, mining and power-plant projects

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Obama’s Trade Goal Fights Clean-Energy Plan

President Barack Obama’s goals of boosting U.S. exports and combating climate change are colliding as the U.S. Export-Import Bank expands financing for oil, gas, mining and power-plant projects.

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Obama’s Trade Goal Fights His Clean-Energy Plan (Update2)

Continental Airlines’ chief, Jeff Smisek, offered a rare public CEO tantrum on Tuesday at a J.P. Morgan investor conference. He was asked about the general tone in Washington toward the airline industry and took the opportunity to vent about the new federal rule targeting tarmac delays exceeding …

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Continental Boss Blasts Federal Delay Rule

CEO Jeff Smisek’s blustery prediction that airline customers will suffer waves of canceled flights because of the federal tarmac-delay rule is more bark than bite, says Justin Bachman

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Continental Boss Raises Threat of Flight Cancellations

Patti Sapone/The Star-LedgerPSE&G’s Hope Creek nuclear plant located in Lower Alloways Creek in this 1995 file photo. SALEM COUNTY — PSE&G Power and PSE&G Nuclear, two subsidiaries of the Public Service Enterprise Group, are planning on filing for an early…

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PSE&G is planning to build another nuclear power plant in N.J.

Patti Sapone/The Star-LedgerPSE&G’s Hope Creek nuclear plant located in Lower Alloways Creek in this 1995 file photo. SALEM COUNTY — PSEG Power and PSEG Nuclear, two subsidiaries of the Public Service Enterprise Group, are planning on filing for an early…

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PSEG to apply for permit to build another nuclear power plant in N.J.

Toyota cars, long known for their quality and reliability, are just about holding their own in resale value despite the massive recall of vehicles for sudden-acceleration problems and other issues.

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Toyota resale values recover despite recalls

While Democrats and Republicans squabbled about health care at the White House on Thursday, 15 senators–from both sides of the aisle–managed to find common ground on a different issue: China. They even put a health-care spin on the problem. “China’s mercantilist policies are undermining the …

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U.S. Senators Turn Up the Heat on China

Not surprisingly, the big New York airports bring up the rear of J.D. Power’s latest customer-satisfaction survey, says Justin Bachman

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Detroit, K.C., Indy Top Airport Satisfaction Poll

The director’s run-in with Southwest Airlines over its obese-seating policy is just a hint of what’s to come, says Justin Bachman

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Fat Nation: Kevin Smith is Not Alone

Stock futures fell Friday after China said for the second time in a month it would force banks to increase their reserve levels. Chinese regulators are trying to contain rapid economic growth to prevent speculative investment and real estate bubbles. The move…

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Stock futures fall as China hikes bank reserves

World markets lost earlier gains on Friday as investors worried about China’s decision to tighten its monetary policy to cool off growth and eurozone growth figures came in well below expectations. Some indexes were higher, buoyed by hopes that the EU will…

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China ordered banks Friday to increase reserves for a second time in a month to cool a credit boom without resorting to interest rate hikes that might derail a recovery in the world’s third-largest economy. Chinese leaders worry that a stimulus-driven torrent…

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A Finnish environmental agency on Friday approved plans to build a natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea _ the final permit needed for the underwater energy link between Russia and Germany. The decision by the regional agency means the Russian-German joint…

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The 16-country eurozone’s economy barely grew in the fourth quarter, official figures showed Friday, as the single currency bloc’s recovery from recession was constrained by its weakest members and Germany, the biggest economy, failed to grow. Eurostat, the…

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