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Obama, Gingrich and 'Winning the Future': Petty Larceny or Fair Game?
By Jill Lawrence
The phrase that President Barack Obama used 10 times in his State of the Union address, and at least five more times during a visit to Wisconsin on Wednesday, is also the title of a 2005 book by Newt Gingrich. Wherever they are on the political spectrum, it seems great minds agree that America must ...
Carol Browner to Leave Energy Post at White House
By Politics Daily StaffCarol M. Browner, President Barack Obama's energy and climate adviser, will step down in the coming weeks, Politico reports. The reason behind Browner's decision, and her plans after she leaves the White House, were not apparent Monday night. Browner, who headed the Environmental ...
Feds Surge Forward on Solar Projects in the Southwest
By Michael Ames
In the West, fighting the federal Bureau of Land Management is a time-honored tradition. But as today's agency focuses on renewable solar energy projects, the BLM is looking more friend than foe to recession-stricken southern Nevada. Ever since the Energy Policy Act of 2005 set the tangible ...
Everglades Boosters: Environmental Restoration Can Spur Economy, Bipartisanship
By Amy Green
WESTON, Fla. -- During the worst recession in a generation, we can't afford to engage in environmental restoration. Or can we? Tying environmental restoration to economic recovery is the emerging strategy for environmentalists as political turnover transforms government away from Democratic ...
EPA Will Regulate Greenhouse Gases in Texas, Court Rules
By Christopher Weber
A federal court has shot down a bid by Texas to keep the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gases in the Lone Star State. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency can take over the permitting of carbon ...
Counting Dead Blackbirds: Conspiracy Theories Abound in Arkansas
By Suzi Parker
The mystery: Dead blackbirds, dead fish. The setting: Rural Arkansas on New Year's Eve. The story: In a town named Beebe, thousands of red-winged blackbirds begin to drop dead out of the sky onto New Year's revelers. Coincidentally, the surname of the Arkansas governor is Beebe. Meanwhile, 125 ...
Key Republicans Vow to Battle White House on Health Care, New EPA Rules
By Bruce Drake
As the 112th Congress convenes this week in Washington, Republicans are vowing to attack head-on key Obama administration initiatives, including health care reform and increased regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, who is set to be chairman of the powerful House ...
EPA Announces New Greenhouse Gas Regulations
By Christopher WeberCalling it a "common-sense approach" towards curbing greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced new regulations on emissions from power plants and oil refineries as a way to fight global warming. In a statement on the EPA's website late Thursday, administrator Lisa Jackson ...
Risky Business: EPA Builds List of Potentially Dangerous Chemicals
By Sheila Kaplan
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- As the rates of learning disabilities, autism and related conditions rise, the Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a roster of the pollutants likely to contribute to these or other neurological disorders. In an ongoing, three-year effort, an EPA ...
EPA's List of Suspect Chemicals (Abridged)
By Sheila KaplanThis list is adapted from an EPA poster presentation of chemicals with the strongest evidence of developmental neurotoxicity that the agency plans to finish and release next year. We omitted some medications and drugs like LSD and cocaine and caffeine. EPA also has a second list of chemicals, with ...
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