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Obama’s Ex-Car Czar Wants Taxpayer Bailout for Detroit
2013-07-23 06:30:40| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
President Obama's former head of the Auto Task Force, Steven Rattner, helped orchestrate the auto bailouts that saw billions of taxpayer dollars spent to save General Motors and Chrysler in a rigged bankruptcy proceeding favorable to political allies .
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Tom Walsh: Auto czar Steven Rattner says the GM, Chrysler bankruptcy much easier than Detroit's
2013-07-19 13:48:53| Automakers - Topix.net
Steven Rattner's message to Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr: Good luck, pal, your job looks tougher than mine was.
U.N. climate chief welcomes Obama plan, wants U.S. energy czar
2013-06-28 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama's new pledges on curbing carbon emissions drew a cautious welcome from the U.N. climate change chief on Thursday, but she said no country was doing enough and proposed the White House appoint an energy czar to coordinate reforms. Obama revived his stalled climate change agenda on Tuesday, promising new rules to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and moves to support renewable energy. Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said countries...
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Ex-Climate Czar Browner Predicts Obama Will Regulate Existing Power Plants
2013-04-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obamas former climate czar is confident that the administration will limit carbon dioxide emissions from the nations existing coal-fired power plants. I think what youll see this term is more greenhouse gas requirements, particularly on new and existing coal-fired power plants, Browner told The Chicago Maroon, a student paper at the University of Chicago. The Environmental Protection Agency has already proposed carbon standards for new power plants, although final regulations...
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Google's privacy czar Alma Whitten resigns
2013-04-02 03:51:38| CNET News.com
After three years on the job, the Web giant's first ever director of privacy steps down. [Read more]
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