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Climate Economists React to Obamas Proposed Oil Tax
2016-02-06 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On Thursday, President Obama dropped a surprise in his transportation plan as part of his annual budget. The plan -- dubbed the 21st Century Clean Transportation System -- calls for $300 billion in investments over the next decade in high speed rail, driverless cars and mass transit across the U.S. That would cut down on carbon pollution and could help the U.S. meet its 10-year climate goal of reducing carbon emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels. The 5-year cost of a barrel of crude...
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Democratic senator blocks Obama's pick to head FDA
2016-01-25 23:04:08| Biotech - Topix.net
Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey says in a statement that he's put a hold on Dr. Robert Califf's nomination. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says deaths linked to misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers climbed to 19,000 last year, the highest on record.
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Michelle Obama's School Lunch Legacy Survives Republican Assault
2016-01-20 00:22:02| Beverages - Topix.net
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks during an event to mark Nowruz, a holiday that is celebrated by over 300 million people in diverse ethnic and religious communities across the Middle East, Central and Southwest Asia, and Eastern Europe, March 11, 2015 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. After half-a-decade of trying to dismember Michelle Obama's signature effort to make school lunches healthier, Republicans compromised with Democrats to preserve much of what the first lady wants while loosening some rules in ways that benefit major food companies.
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Plastics Industry heeds Obama's call for American innovation.
2016-01-15 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
William R. Carteaux, president and CEO of SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association, issued remarks after the State of the Union address. On behalf of the U.S. plastics industry, which employs nearly one million hard-working Americans, we encourage Congress and the Administration to build on recent bipartisan budget reform success, and work together to find new ways to create jobs, grow the American economy, and promote U.S. manufacturing at home and abroad.
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Obama's orders make sense
2016-01-07 05:56:00| Furniture - Topix.net
When Henry County Sheriff Lane Perry recently spoke to the Bulletin about the danger of parties at abandoned factories and warehouses, it was difficult not to feel a sense of disaster narrowly averted.
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