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Obama Meets Indian-American Business Leaders On Immigration
2013-06-25 12:11:46| Furniture - Topix.net
US President Barack Obama met a group of top business executives, including two Indian-Americans, to discuss the landmark comprehensive immigration reform bill that aims to provide citizenship to some 11 million illegal immigrants, including over 240,000 Indians.
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Obama to lay out three-part plan for addressing climate change
2013-06-25 12:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: With little to no hope on Capitol Hill for action on climate change, President Obama on Tuesday plans to bypass Congress and move forward with executive actions designed to reduce carbon emissions. In a speech at Georgetown University, the president will lay out what the administration is billing as a comprehensive plan built on three pillars: cutting the nation's carbon pollution, leading global efforts to reduce carbon emissions and preparing the United States for the impacts of climate change....
No-drama Obama unveils series of modest, sensible steps on climate change
2013-06-25 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Obama`s supporters, his critics, and the media all want the same thing from his climate speech today: drama. They want grand gestures, some sort of conversion narrative centered on Obama`s will to fight the climate fight. They want a "trade" for Keystone or a climate tax declaration or something about fracking, anything to fire up audiences and get clicks. Everyone has the same incentive nowadays, the green groups, the right-wing groups, the political media, they all want and need attention. In a...
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Obama To Tap Executive Powers To Rein In Carbon Emissions
2013-06-25 11:15:00| OGI
The president proposes new regulations and an end to subsidies for Big Oil.
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Obama climate-change speech to be combed for Keystone clues
2013-06-25 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: With an eye on his legacy, President Barack Obama will unveil Tuesday sweeping plans to help save the planet from runaway global warming by curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. But the toughest climate-change decision soon to cross the President's Oval Office desk - the fate of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline designed to ship Alberta oil-sands crude across America - likely won't even rate a mention. Anti-Keystone XL activists said they will demonstrate at Georgetown University where Mr. Obama is...
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