The federal government was not prepared to determine how chemical dispersants should be used to break up oil in the event of a massive oil spill, a draft report released today by the national oil spill commission says.
According to the report, which was released in conjunction with three More…
The national oil spill commission released today four reports written by commission staff assessing the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill. The reports offer a detailed look at the oil spill from a number of angles, including the use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil that More…
The Obama administration has agreed to install solar panels on the White House. The decision comes after environmentalists, led by 350.org, met with White House staff last month to discuss the issue.
It’s important to note that there is a strong underlying political back story surrounding these panels. It More…
Now that Rahm Emanuel has officially bid his adieu to the White House, Paul Blumenthal at the Sunlight Foundation figured it would be a good time to trawl through the White House visitor logs to see who visited the famously gruff chief of staff during his tenure and More…
American people do not want amnesty for illegal immigrants or mass deportation, Melody Barnes, Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, told the crowd at an event hosted by Brookings’ Hamilton Project this morning. She framed the need for comprehensiveness immigration reform around economic and national security interests.
“The status quo is More…
Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council and an adviser to President Barack Obama, is stepping down at the end of the year.
The right-leaning blogosphere is having some fun today with White House science adviser John Holdren. He said last week that the term “global warming” oversimplifies the complexities at play when greenhouse gas emissions are released into the atmosphere. “Global climate disruption,” he said, is a better term.
Rather than naming Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama plans to name her to a new White House and Treasury advisory post, helping to set up the CFPB, Jake Tapper reports.
Obama chose not to nominate Warren to head the CFPB — More…
The White House sent a budget amendment to Congress last night that would set aside money for the reorganization of the Interior Department’s offshore drilling oversight agency.
The reorganization is part of a broad effort by the Obama administration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill to ensure More…
Today, in the Senate’s first session since early August, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, proposed freezing income tax rates for all Americans. The White House is currently pushing for an extension of the Bush tax cuts for middle-class and lower-income Americans, while letting the tax cuts expire for More…
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