Category Archives: Environmental

Clean air, water rules spark different responses

By doris | Published: November 26, 2011

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msn.com Large and small companies have told Republican-led congressional committees what the party wants to hear: dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the Obama administration succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. But their message to financial regulators and investors conveys less gloom and certainty. The administration [...]

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‘I pay your salary,’ snaps historian to lawmaker in tense House hearing

By doris | Published: November 24, 2011

Full Story at NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com Heated discussions are commonplace on Capitol Hill, but it’s rare form for a witness and a legislator to have at it. But it happened on Friday when Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young sparred (intensely) with historian Douglas Brinkley at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee. Brinkley recently authored “The [...]

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Thousands protest at White House over pipeline

By doris | Published: November 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters gathered in Lafayette Square across from the White House on Sunday to oppose a plan for a transnational oil pipeline they fear could harm the environment. At one point, the crowd linked hands to surround the White House, keeping up pressure on President Barack Obama as his [...]

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Obama halts tighter smog rule, citing ‘regulatory burdens’

By doris | Published: September 2, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Citing the financial burden in a struggling economy and after Republican protests, President Barack Obama on Friday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to shelve a proposal to tighten smog standards. “I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues [...]

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Obama to Joplin: ‘This is a national tragedy’

By doris | Published: May 29, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com JOPLIN, Mo. — President Barack Obama pivoted from diplomacy on the world stage to the intimate and delicate domestic task of acting as healer-in-chief as he came to Joplin on Sunday to tour the devastation wrought by a monster tornado. “This is not just your tragedy. This is a national tragedy, [...]

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Obama pumps plan to develop renewable energy

By doris | Published: April 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. “That’s the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil” in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.

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Report: BP to restart deepwater drilling in Gulf

By doris | Published: April 3, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com In a deal with U.S. regulators, BP this summer plans to restart deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on 10 wells in exchange for tougher safety rules, British media reported Sunday. The London-based oil giant promised to abide by rules that are stricter than guidelines set after the April 20, [...]

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Why No Nukes? The Real Cost of U.S. Nuclear Power

By doris | Published: March 27, 2011

Full Story at time.com The chaos at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant — explosions, fires, ruptures — has not shaken the bipartisan support in partisan Washington for the U.S.’s so-called nuclear renaissance. Republicans have dismissed Japan’s crisis as a once-in-a-lifetime fluke. President Obama has defended atomic energy as a carbon-free source of power, resisting calls [...]

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No move yet in Congress to curb nuclear incentives

By doris | Published: March 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Worries about nuclear power plant safety reached Capitol Hill Wednesday as senators questioned the nation’s top nuclear regulator about whether his agency was doing enough to avert a Fukushima-type disaster in the united States. “I’m looking to you for more leadership than I’ve gotten,” Senate Energy and Public Works [...]

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Fears mounting over U.S. nuclear plants

By doris | Published: March 15, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Just two months ago, California residents living near a controversial nuclear power plant grilled nuclear regulators over the reactor’s safety at a public hearing. At issue was the 2008 discovery of a previously unknown earthquake fault located less than a half mile off shore from the plant. “Can [...]

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Energy budget calls for cuts in several programs

By doris | Published: February 12, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will propose significantly cutting fossil fuel research and closing two facilities, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday. “Fiscal responsibility demands shared sacrifice — it means cutting programs we would not cut in better fiscal times,” he wrote in a blog post Friday outlining the cuts, as [...]

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Way cleared for tax cut bill; energy breaks added

By doris | Published: December 10, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The White House and key lawmakers in both parties cleared the way Thursday night for swift Senate action to avert a Jan. 1 spike in income taxes for most Americans, agreeing to renew expiring breaks for ethanol and other forms of alternative energy. Tax provisions aimed at increasing production [...]

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