Archives for 2016
After wage cases, energy sector makes biggest payouts to employees
For the past three decades, accommodation and food service companies accounted for nearly one-quarter of all wage and hour cases, more than any other industry. But when it comes to recovery of back pay as...
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China’s oil demand shifting to consumers, not falling, Wood Mac says
China’s oil demand isn’t really slowing — it’s just changing, and that will help global energy demand to exceed supply by the end of the years, says energy research firm Wood Mackenzie. The world’s second-largest...
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Can a huge new oil field and famous artesian spring get along?
Executives from the Houston oil and gas exploration company Apache Corp. are driving to the tiny West Texas town of Balmorhea this week. There, they hope to quell fears that hydraulic fracturing operations from the...
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Market Currents: Is a distillate glut next?
Happy middle O’week! After temporarily ripping higher in response to a surprise draw to crude inventories, oil prices are looking lower once more, as bearish builds from the products more than offset this. Hark, here...
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Does Congress have authority to subpoena AGs over climate change?
Democrats and Republicans clashed Wednesday in a hearing examining the legal authority of House Republicans to force state attorneys general turn over documents related to their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil and other oil companies committed...
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