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By Christine Murray LONDON (Reuters) - Government plans to increase infrastructure spending will not be nearly enough to fix Britain's infrastructure backlog, boost its ailing construction industry or kick-start growth, industry experts warned on Wednesday. Chancellor George Osborne said in his...

AP - Medical marijuana is legal in 17 states, but the industry has a decidedly black-market aspect — it's mostly cash-only. More...

Tobacco companies suffered a major defeat in Canada on Friday when the Supreme Court ruled the federal government is not liable for damages from health-related lawsuits, possibly amounting to many billions of dollars. The tobacco industry -- facing suits from several Canadian provinces seeking...

<div>WASHINGTON WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday credited the Obama administration's intervention for the American auto industry's recovery from "the brink of extinction" and pointed to Chrysler's early repayment of the federal loan that saved it from disaster. "This...

NEW YORK, -- The average cost of withdrawing cash from an automated machine in the United States has risen to $3.74 per transaction, an industry research firm said. Bankrate.com said fees for withdrawing cash are going up and the reason, analysts say, is that regulators have limited fees...

- President Barack Obama's commission investigating last year's oil disaster is giving environmental groups hope that some change is on the horizon, but not the full scope of what they're looking for, two groups told CNN Thursday. "If you take the findings to heart, you wouldn't start drilling...

-- The American Petroleum Institute has a message to Congress as it starts work Wednesday: Open more areas for drilling and we will create more jobs for the American people. "With the right policies in place at all levels of government, our industry stands ready to be the engine of economic...

Sunny outlook for solar industry MUNICH, Germany, (UPI) -- The world's biggest solar energy fair is under way in Munich, as growth continues to dominate the sector despite a reduction in government subsidies across Europe. France, Italy and Germany have reduced their feed-in-tariffs recently...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse gases on Tuesday and obliged the struggling auto industry to make more efficient cars by imposing tough national standards to cut emissions and increase gas mileage. Obama said the new standards, announced...

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/01/13/155907.php The war between Blu-ray and HD DVD opens up with another surprise front, and it might be the pornographic industry which decides the conflict. In the VHS-versus-Betamax conflict, the pornography industry was a deciding factor with most...