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| 5/27/2010 |
President Obama under fire for BP spill response President Barack Obama is on the defensive over his presidential multitasking, for refusing to scrub his schedule of events that seem peripheral — even trivial — compared with the unfolding catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. As oozing oil fouls Louisiana’s marshes, Obama has committed to maintaining the semblance of a regular schedule, adhering to his walk-and-chew-gum style of crisis management even as criticism of his administration mounts. (Politico) | |||
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| 12/1/2008 |
Pentagon Plans To Keep 20,000 Troops Inside US To Bolster Domestic Security The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said. There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. (Washington Post) | |||
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| 11/4/2008 |
Obama coal tax plan concerns industry leaders Barack Obama's plan to impose stiff taxes on those who build coal-fired power plants is not being well received by some local industry leaders. Rob Murray, vice president of business development and external affairs for Murray Energy Corp., sees job losses and higher energy costs as potential results of such a plan. His firm operates the Ohio Valley Coal Co., the American Energy Corp. and Ohio American Energy in Ohio. In an interview almost a year ago with a San Francisco newspaper, Democratic presidential nominee Obama suggested stiff taxes on those who build coal-fired plants. His words, from an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, came to light over the weekend just days before today's general election. "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can," Obama said in the interview. "It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." In a prepared statement, the Obama campaign said Obama's quote regarding the taxing of coal emissions was taken "wildly out of context," adding that elsewhere in the interview, Obama calls the idea of banning coal burning "an illusion." Melissa McHenry, spokeswoman for American Electric Power, said AEP was aware that both Obama and his challenger, Republican John McCain, support climate change legislation. "We know that whoever is elected, he is going to have to balance the economy with reducing emissions," she said. "Coal is going to have to continue to be part of the energy mix. It accounts for more than 50 percent of electricity generated in the U.S." She acknowledged that AEP has supported climate change legislation but with "reasonable reductions and a reasonable time frame." (Herald Star) | |||
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keywords: American Electric Power, American Energy Corp, Barack Obama, Bob Ney, Carbon Dioxide, China, Coal, Internet, John D Rockefeller IV, John Mccain, Joseph Biden, Middle East, Mike Carey, Murray Energy Corp, Ohio, Ohio American Energy, Ohio Coal Association, Ohio Valley Coal, Penn State University, Rob Murray, Sarah Palin, United States, West Virginia
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| 6/18/1937 |
Jay Rockefeller John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia, which he was first elected to in 1985. He was the 29th Governor of West Virginia, from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty. (Wikipedia) | |||
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