Report suggests EPA cut corners on climate finding
The Vacaville Reporter Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:13 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration cut corners before concluding that climate-change pollution can endanger human health, a key finding underpinning costly new regulations, an internal government watchdog said Wednesday. |
Valedictorian earns career award for scientists, engineers
The Sun Chronicle Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:13 AM PDT
FOXBORO - Sumita Pennathur, valedictorian of the Foxboro High School Class of 1996, was one of two University of California Santa Barbara faculty members named by President Barack Obama as recipients this week of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. |
Hundreds of plants, animals up for new protections
The Argus-Press Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:13 AM PDT
This undated image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a Pagosa skyrocket plant. The Obama administration is taking steps to extend federal protections to hundreds of animals and plants, including the Pagosa skyrocket, across the country, compelled by a pair of recent legal settlements that targeted species mired in bureaucratic limbo even as they inch toward potential ... |
Simon to speak at S. Illinois economic summit
CBS4 Quad Cities Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:12 AM PDT
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon will talk about her support for President Barack Obama's American Jobs Act at an economic summit in southern Illinois. |
Keep learning, Obama tells students
Manila Bulletin Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:11 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) â€" President Barack Obama urged students on Wednesday to pursue learning after high school to brighten the United States' future and restore its preeminence in education. Obama, who has made education reform a major part of his administration, told students at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School that more than 60 percent of jobs in the next decade would require more than a ... |
Election-year ruling looms for health overhaul
KING5 Seattle Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:05 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul appears headed for a Supreme Court ruling as the presidential election season is hitting full stride in the coming year. |
Solyndra had GOP backing - Thu, 29 Sep 2011 PST
The Spokesman-Review Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:05 AM PDT
WASHINGTON â€" Solyndra is trying to rival her big sister Katrina’s ability to make the federal government look incompetent. But whose baby is she? Since the solar energy company went belly-up a few weeks ago â€" leaving taxpayers on the hook for $535 million in loan guarantees â€" a business that was once the poster child for President Barack Obama’s green jobs initiative has instead become a tool ... |
US eases rhetoric on Pakistan but problems persist
Straits Times Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:03 AM PDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Wednesday toned down harsh criticism of Pakistan levelled by the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff but made clear that it expects more counterterrorism cooperation from Islamabad if tenuous ties are to improve. |
Students urged: Make a difference
The Daily Reflector Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:02 AM PDT
Students must do well in school in order to make a difference in the world, President Barack Obama said during his third annual back-to-school speech Wednesday afternoon as it was streamed live online to Pitt County Schools. |
Pentagon aims at target Pakistan
Asia Times Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:55 AM PDT
Syria will have to wait. The next stop in the Pentagon-coined "long war" is bound to be Pakistan. True, a war is already on in what the Barack Obama administration named AfPak. But crunch time in Pak itself looms closer and closer. Call it the "no bomb left behind" campaign. |
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