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Obama: We're only halfway there on patent reform
2013-02-14 23:37:07| CNET News.com
In a Google+ Hangout, the president says entrepreneurs need more protection against people who try to "extort" them. [Read more]
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Obama acting too slowly on climate change risks, US government audit finds
2013-02-14 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The US government is exposed to high risk from climate change, and Barack Obama has not moved fast enough to manage those new dangers, the government auditor said on Thursday. The report from the Government Accountability Office said the government had "significant" financial exposure to climate change. The GAO review, conducted every two years at the start of a new Congress, lists government operations deemed at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement. This year was the first...
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President Obama Wants to Go All of the Above on Energy. But Will Anyone Join Him?
2013-02-14 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: President Obama was rightly praised by many environmentalists for his State of the Union speech last night. For one thing, he included a word that had gone missing in similar addresses in the past: climate change. And he didn`t pull his punches -- at least rhetorically: For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it`s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves,...
Obama speech to let Alberta move faster on climate change: ministers
2013-02-14 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Alberta cabinet ministers are praising U.S. President Barack Obama's recent remarks on climate change. They say the president's state of the union address shows the U.S. is catching up to Alberta on the issue and allows the province to move even faster to combat the problem. Still, Environment Minister Diana McQueen says she has asked the group setting up a monitoring agency for the oilsands to speed up their work. She's also asked her staff to come up with a renewed climate change strategy,...
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President Obama Proposes Energy Security Trust
2013-02-14 04:16:19| Air Courier - Topix.net
In his 2013 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama proposed that "we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.
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