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Obama energy policy: The 'all-of-the-above' lie
In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get re-elected. For instance, Mr. Romney charged that, "As...
Tags: Energy Saving, Metal and Mineral, Conservation, Parties and Movements, Wildlife
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Obama finally takes on Big Oil
I was pleased to learn that President Obama's new deficit plan includes ending $41 billion in subsidies to Big Oil ("Federal workers groups, contractors opposed Obama debt plan," Sept. 19). This is good news for America and good news for Maryland...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Standards, BP Plc, Barack Obama
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Graziano must go
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City's strategy to spend millions on outside lawyers to avoid liability for lead paint poisoning its tenants suffered, and then to refuse to pay judgments in the cases it loses, is an utter disgrace. The fact that a...Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Litigation
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Business in natural disasters
Smiths Detection developed the portable emergency room to treat soldiers on the battlefield.
But the tornado that tore through Joplin, Mo., last month, executives at the Edgewood manufacturer say, showed another potential use.
The twister, one of the...Tags: Afghanistan, Natural Disasters, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Hamilton, Emergency Incidents
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Obama drops climate change talk as green movement fizzles
"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled.
As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a...Tags: An Inconvenient Truth (movie), Physical Conditions, Al Gore, Emergency Incidents, United Nations
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Earth Day 2011: Reality bites
Friday marks the 41st anniversary of Earth Day and provides the customary opportunity to take stock of the environmental movement in this country. Unfortunately, for all the talk of the greening of America, it's been a pretty rotten 12 months for the...Tags: Regional Authority, Chesapeake Bay, Emergency Incidents, Forests, Republican Party
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We can't drill our way out of high gas prices
Prices at the pump are rising, and Americans are none too happy about it. Small wonder that President Obama's approval ratings have fallen like a sack of hammers in recent weeks: Nothing annoys voters quite like a $75 fill-up at their local service...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Chesapeake Bay, Emergency Incidents, Republican Party
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
Reuters(Adds Wescast Industries, Thomas H. Lee) June 1 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2000 G M T o n Friday: ** A Russian state firm has offered to buy BP Plc's...Tags: GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Restructuring and Recapitalization, United Kingdom, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Turkey
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Russian firm offers to buy BP's $30 billion JV stake: source
ReutersLONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian state firm has offered to buy BP Plc's half share in its Siberian joint venture, a source said on Friday, in what would amount to a stunning reversal for the British firm and a bold assertion of Kremlin control over the...Tags: Bob Dudley, Global Expansion, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Corporate Officers
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UPDATE 6-Russia offers to buy BP's $30 bln jv stake-source
Reuters* State holding co may be vehicle for stake buy - sources * Rosneft parent Rosneftegaz could be vehicle to do deal * Rosneft CEO denies making approach * Sale would cut BP output 30 percent, $2-4 bln/yr in divs * BP shares up 1.8 pct, TNK-BP down 10...Tags: Bob Dudley, Global Expansion, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Corporate Officers, Mikhail Fridman
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UPDATE 3-BP puts giant Russian joint venture up for sale
Reuters* Sale could raise $30 billion, help pay for oil spill * Possible route for Rosneft to become global oil giant * Sale would cut BP output 30 percent, $2-4 bln/yr in dividends * BP shares jump By Tom Bergin LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) - BP put its half-...Tags: Bob Dudley, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Corporate Officers, Mikhail Fridman
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