The Environmental Protection Agency released today a five-year plan outlining key goals for the agency. Chief among those goals is “taking action on climate change.”
The 2011-2015 plan includes the following five “strategic goals”:
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed tighter restrictions on enviro-friendly claims in advertising and on food packaging. The guidelines haven’t been updates since 1998, the Associated Press reports, so the current rules were written before the “go green” craze crept into the nation’s potato chips and produce.
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Responding to polls that suggested the American people believed the federal government was not adequately responding to the oil spill, President Obama announced in May that he would triple oil spill response resources. That decision, a draft report from the national oil spill commission says, may have actually hindered More…
A draft report released today by the national oil spill commission provides new details on a much-criticized August assessment by the Obama administration of the “fate of oil” from the Gulf oil spill. While much of the information in today’s report has already come out in press accounts, the More…
In a coup for offshore wind advocates, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed today the first ever lease for an offshore wind project in the United States.
The Cape Wind project, off the coast of Massachusetts, has been mired in regulatory delays for years, and today’s lease signing sends a signal More…
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation issued today a proposal to toughen greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles manufactured between the years 2017 and 2025.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in a speech today, announced two new offshore drilling safety rules.
“Under these new rules, operators will need to comply with tougher requirements for everything from well design and cementing practices to blowout preventers and employee training,” Salazar said. “They will also need to develop More…
The Senate passed last night, in a 69-30 vote, a continuing resolution to fund the federal government’s operations through Dec. 3. Included in the CR is an additional $23 million for the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to conduct more oil rig inspection in the Gulf of Mexico. More…
Writing at Slate, Daniel Gross wonders why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn’t seem to care much about high unemployment:
In a speech earlier this month, Bernanke noted that “in all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly 8-1/2 million jobs that were
Today, Edward Pinto, Fannie Mae’s chief credit officer from 1987 to 1989 and a prominent housing consultant, testified before the House Oversight Committee on the question of whether loan servicers are doing enough to prevent foreclosure and preserve homeownership. His bottom line: The Treasury Department’s Home Affordable Modification Program, More…
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