The United States has reached an agreement with the Motors Liquidation Co — the part of General Motors that split off during bankruptcy and holds the company’s unwanted assets — to establish a trust to clean up 89 sites (many of which contain hazardous materials) that were abandoned when the More…
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder says Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate and energy policy adviser, is a “plausible candidate” to become White House chief of staff.
He says:
Democrats connected with the White House say that Carol Browner, currently, the president’s senior adviser on energy and the environment, and the
The national oil spill commission has made headlines last week for its reports that heavily criticized the Obama administration for its response to the Gulf oil spill. The reports laid out in detail a number of missteps that federal agencies made in the weeks after the spill, though the More…
Dan Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, says Ryan Lizza’s much-talked-about New Yorker story on why the climate bill did not pass the Senate leaves out a few key details.
Lizza’s story shows that, in many cases, the White House and More…
The White House is expected to lift a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this morning.
The moratorium was imposed in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, which dumped 4.9 million barrels More…
Rahm Emanuel could face a serious challenge from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), one of the most vocal supporters of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress, in the race for Chicago mayor, according to a poll commissioned by Gutierrez as he decides whether to run for the office. Emanuel won a horse-race More…
Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sent a letter to the national oil spill commission yesterday to “set the record straight” on an assertion in one of the commission’s draft reports released this week that has gotten quite a bit of attention.
The draft staff More…
After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing their status by engaging primarily in political advocacy, some Senate Republicans are pushing back:
Such a review threatens to “chill the legitimate exercise of
The White House is pushing back against a series of draft staff reports released yesterday by the national oil spill commission.
As I noted in my story yesterday, the White House did in fact release an estimate in May of the worst-case scenario of the spill, despite suggestions in More…
President Obama’s May directive to triple the number of people working to stop the Gulf oil spill may have actually hindered the government’s response. The Coast Guard, in the days after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion, kept track of the government’s response to the spill on a “simple Microsoft More…
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