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Landing page summary:  Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revised Critical Habitat for the Riverside Fairy Shrimp; Proposed Rule

July 25, 2011

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FOX Business has learned General Motors plans on announcing a program of $2 billion in spending to upgrade as many as 18 plants and hire in the neighborhood of 4,000 new workers.

Chrysler Group LLC is cutting overtime at plants in Canada and Mexico to conserve parts from Japan.

China's government has made changes in its policy on nuclear power that likely will result in a scaling back of ambitious plans for building new plants, an industry official said in comments reported Tuesday by state media.

Of the four plants identified back in 2009 for federal assistance, only two are making some headway but the others are not.

China has already become General Motors’ largest market and now the Detroit-based automaker says it is considering more plants aimed at export production.

A study leaked today by the Chinese government through the state-backed Global Times suggests a large amount of violence and other rough treatment at Foxconn plants

The General Motors bankruptcy gave birth to two different G.M.’s, and one of them is struggling in the shadow of the other.

With companies hiring few workers in the prolonged recession, economic developers are trying to create jobs by offering tax breaks and other incentives they might not have a few years ago.

A rash of suicides has intensified scrutiny of the working and living conditions at Foxconn, an electronics supplier.