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Energy costs 'crippling industry' (BBC News) - Rising energy costs are crippling British industry and threatening thousands of jobs, a union leader warns.

Billion-Dollar Battle Intensifies Between States and Tobacco Industry (Law.com) - The battle over money the tobacco industry owes states under their 1998 settlement intensified Tuesday after talks to resolve the dispute fizzled. A spokesman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said Tuesday that the weeks-long negotiations between the states and tobacco companies had broken down.

Fire chiefs warn Industry Canada not to allocate emergency airwaves to public (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - OTTAWA (CP) - Fire chiefs are urging Industry Canada to abandon plans to allow skiers, hunters and snowmobilers to use two-way radios in a bandwidth that has traditionally been reserved for emergency first-responders.

U.S. corn imports haven't hurt Canadian industry, trade tribunal finds (Canadian Business) - OTTAWA (CP) - Imported American corn hasn't hurt and isn't threatening to hurt the Canadian corn industry, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruled Tuesday.

"IT’S important for us to take a long hard look at our industry and identify just where we’ve gone wrong," said (Malay Mail) - He was speaking at a recent press conference to announce a seminar on the music industry titled ‘Towards A Brighter Future’ to be held in the Kuala Lumpur room at the PWTC on April 20, beginning from 9am until 5pm.

Heavy taxes crash down on car rental industry (USA Today) - The normally fractious rental car industry is uniting to battle what it views as its common enemy: state and local governments intent on imposing more taxes and fees on renters.

WA mining industry rejects gold theft plan (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - An innovative plan to prevent gold thefts in Western Australia has failed to win support from the mining industry.

AMD Rallies Industry Leaders to Reduce Datacenter Power and Cooling Levels to the Mutual Benefit of Business, (FinanzNachrichten) - A group of technology industry leaders today announced their intent to form The Green Grid to help reduce growing power and cooling demands in enterprise datacenters.

Chicago Fed chief sees 'painful' changes for auto industry (Detroit News) - DETROIT - The U.S. auto industry faces a string of issues as market share for the Midwest-based U.S. automakers wanes and transplant automakers grow, Chicago Federal Reserve President Michael Moskow said on Tuesday.

German Industry Signals Flexibility (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Industry leaders on Tuesday signaled flexibility and urged Germany's biggest industrial union to soften its demands as they entered potentially decisive talks over pay for 3.4 million manufacturing workers.