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The Federal Aviation Administration will develop a plan by Dec. 31 to speed investigations and encourage air carriers to voluntarily report hazardous materials violations, in the wake of a recent report by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s inspector general criticizing the agency’s monitoring of hazardous materials, an FAA spokeswoman said..

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The average price for retail diesel fuel dropped 4.7 cents a gallon to $2.069, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The productivity of U.S. workers grew at a 1.8% annual rate in the third quarter, the smallest gain in nearly two years, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

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The Department of Transportation said Monday the transportation services index increased 0.5% in September to 125.1. It is 6.6% higher than a year earlier, DOT said in a statement.

The price of regular gasoline declined about three cents in the past two weeks to an average of $1.93 a gallon, according to the Lundberg Survey of 7,000 stations nationwide.

A California Air Resources Board regulation scheduled to take effect Dec. 10 would require diesel-fueled transport refrigeration units operating in that state to meet certain emission requirements by 2008.