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President Obama voices support for boosting poor and low-performing schools
2015-03-16 20:20:00| American School & University
Superintendents attending the Council of Great City Schools conference meet with the president. read more
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Obama names new head of White House environmental council
2015-03-11 21:33:07| Waste Management - Topix.net
President Obama has tapped Christy Goldfuss, a former top official at the National Park Service, to lead his committee of environmental advisers. Goldfuss, currently an adviser at the Council on Environmental Quality , will take over as its acting director on Monday, when current acting director Mike Boots resigns , CEQ spokeswoman Taryn Tuss said Wednesday.
"Historic year" beckons for Obama trade policy
2015-03-11 15:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
This year will be "historic" in terms of trade policy for the Obama Administration, as talks continue towards deals with Asia Pacific, the EU and Africa.
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Obama calls Canada's oilsands 'extraordinarily dirty'
2015-03-08 03:29:30| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Rows of pipe ready to become part of the Keystone Pipeline are stacked in a field near Cushing, Okla., in 2013. On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama called oil from Canada's oilsands, which would be piped via Keystone to refineries in Texas if the project were approved, "extraordinarily dirty."
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Obama notes concerns over 'extraordinarily dirty' Canada oil extraction
2015-03-06 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama amplified the concerns of environmentalists about the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday and repeated his own reservations the project would have few benefits, but said he has not made a decision on the project. Obama, explaining the debate over the pipeline to a group of students, described concerns about the "extraordinarily dirty" extraction methods for Canadian oilsands - a description the Canadian government has long argued is unfair. "The reason that a lot...
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