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submitted by grandie4 17 months ago, from latimes.com
Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness -- the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there, they say. More
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submitted by grandie4 17 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Courting Europe with an American-style campaign, President Barack Obama on Friday talked up his plans — popular here — to eliminate nuclear weapons, close the Guantanamo Bay prison and tackle global warming. More
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submitted by rodeox 18 months ago, from finance.yahoo.com
To a nation reeling from recession and facing long-festering problems, President Barack Obama has a simple reminder: "We are not quitters." Whatever the problems, the new president promised in the first prime-time speech of his term, "We will rebuild, we will recover and the United States of... More
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submitted by trippie48 19 months ago, from chicagotribune.com
President Barack Obama, offering the first specifics on a key element in his $825 billion stimulus package, said Saturday that it would add 3,000 miles of new electric transmission lines and double the nation's use of wind and solar power within three years. More
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submitted by eooties 20 months ago, from google.com
Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government's poor handling of the natural disaster. "Katrina to me was the... More
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submitted by eooties 22 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
The economic crisis will not stop President-elect Barack Obama from expanding health care, overhauling education and energy policy, and passing a middle-class tax cut soon after he takes office in January, senior aides said on Sunday. More
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submitted by agabriel 22 months ago, from nytimes.com
No president since before Barack Obama was born has ascended to the Oval Office confronted by the accumulation of seismic challenges awaiting him. Historians grasping for parallels point to Abraham Lincoln taking office as the nation was collapsing into Civil War, or Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving.. More
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submitted by rodeox 22 months ago, from latimes.com
If Barack Obama and John McCain agree on nothing else, they agree that one of the nation's most urgent challenges is curbing its dependence on foreign oil and addressing the energy-related problem of global warming. More
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submitted by chiasma 23 months ago, from nytimes.com
Regulators in New Jersey awarded the rights on Friday for construction of a $1 billion offshore wind farm in the southern part of the state to Garden State Offshore Energy. The rights, which include access to as much as $19 million in state grants, is part of New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan, which.. More
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submitted by chiasma 23 months ago, from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
Al Gore, the former vice president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is nothing if not passionate on the issue of global warming. But his usual fired-up remarks on the subject took a step into the Gandhian realm on Wednesday when he told an audience at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in... More
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submitted by rodeox 24 months ago, from iht.com
As a senator, John McCain holds a reputation for diverging from many of his Republican colleagues on core party issues. Now, as the party's presidential candidate, his record and policy views are putting him at odds with the overarching party platform adopted this week. More
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submitted by trippie48 24 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
A federal appeals court struck down a Bush administration rule that prevented states and local governments from imposing stricter monitoring of pollution generated by power plants, factories and oil refineries than required by the federal government. More
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submitted by chiasma 25 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday said a shift in his stance on offshore oil drilling is a necessary compromise with Republicans to gain their support for his broader goals of energy independence. On Friday, Obama indicated a willingness to support an effort by five Democratic senators and five... More
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submitted by trippie48 25 months ago, from sfgate.com
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators seeking to end the energy wars raging in Congress unveiled new legislation Friday that would allow some offshore oil drilling but also would invest heavily in wind and solar power, electric vehicles and alternative fuels. The new proposal arose as tempers flared.. More
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submitted by trippie48 25 months ago, from reuters.com
Al Gore, long mocked as an exaggerating bore, seems certain to land a lead role at the Democratic National Convention as an internationally recognized defender of the Earth. Eight years after losing one of the closest White House elections ever, Gore is being embraced by party faithful... More
