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Obama's Public-Works Funding Proposal Faces Long Odds in Congress
2013-02-20 16:47:52| ENR.com: Headline News
Congress didnt embrace earlier versions of presidents revived $50-billion infrastructure plan.
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API's Gerard Welcomes President Obama's Call For Increased American Oil And Natural Gas Production
2013-02-19 02:41:35| oilandgasonline News Articles
API President and CEO Jack Gerard welcomed President Obama’s State of the Union call to invest in more domestic oil and natural gas, saying that more development will create jobs and help us become an energy superpower:
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Holding Obama's Feet to the Climate-Change Fire
2013-02-18 14:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: At first glance, it was hard to tell whether they had come to bury Obama or to praise him. Thousands of activists from hundreds of environmental, social justice and community groups marched on Washington yesterday in the biggest climate rally ever held in the U.S. capital. Activists both called on President Obama to make good on his climate change policy promises and protested the Keystone XL pipeline project. For 25 years our government has basically ignored the climate crisis: now people in...
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Obamas Keystone Pipeline Decision Risks New Problems, Either Way
2013-02-17 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada. Canada, the United States most important trading partner and a close ally on Iran and Afghanistan, is counting on the pipeline to propel more growth in its oil patch, a vital engine for its economy. Its leaders have made it clear that an American...
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Obamas climate talk may galvanize action in Canada
2013-02-16 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Consternation is the order of the day in Ottawa and Alberta. U.S. President Barack Obama has rediscovered climate change as a priority. The federal and Alberta governments have been caught flat-footed. Neither has assigned a high priority to climate change. They assumed that, since the issue was scarcely raised in the U.S. election campaign, Mr. Obama shared their lack of enthusiasm. Wrong. In his inaugural speech and the State of the Union address, Mr. Obama spent many paragraphs pledging...
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