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Before explosion, BP urged against new regulation
The Swampby Tom Hamburger and Mike Memoli Newly obtained documents reveal that months before the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, British Petroleum was telling the Obama administration that the regulatory process run through the now widely-criticized...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Companies and Corporations, Explosions, Litigation and Regulation, BP Plc
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Obama's financial regs: 'Wild risk'-watch
The Swampby Mark Silva A not-so-long-time-ago, in a universe before the federal government had engaged in a multibillion-dollar bailout of the financial and automotive industry, then- Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson called for a sweeping overhaul and...Tags: Government, Heads of State, Automotive Equipment, Business Institutions, Litigation and Regulation
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Global warming: a modern 'Monkey Trial'?
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley Cast your mind back to high school history class and you may recall a watershed American courtroom drama, a 1925 case against a Tennessee biology teacher that gripped the nation by pitting Darwin's evolution theory against Biblical......Tags: Science and Technology, James Inhofe, Weather, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lawyers
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Cass Sunstein approval: Critics derailed
The Swampby Mark Silva Cass Sunstein, the president's pick to serve as White House regulatory chief, has drawn fire for some of the things he has had to say. Glenn Beck, the conservative FOX News Channel commentator whose attacks on another......Tags: Government, Princeton University, Jack Kingston, Constitutional Issues, Music
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Bisons visit FAU looking for warm place to call home (UPDATE)
FAU Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsFINAL: FAU wins 7-3, bashing out 16 hits to end 3-game skid. ------------------------------------- Imagine trying to recruit to North Dakota State. Their first home game, scheduled for Wednesday, has already been canceled due to snow/field conditions....Tags: Murfreesboro, North Dakota, Twitter, Inc., Utah, Politics
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Pentagon, EPA at odds
The SwampBy Josh Mitchell and wire reports The Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped....Tags: Government, Environmental Cleanup, Defense, Armed Forces, Washington Post Co.
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Fannie and Freddie, hardball experts
The Swampby Frank James If you want to read a disturbing tale of how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used their clout in Washington to try to brush back their critics like pitchers throwing at the heads of batters, check out......Tags: Fannie Mae, Florida, Economy, Business and Finance, Accounting and Auditing, Cliff Stearns
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FLL airport expansion still going the wrong way
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsThe Broward County Commission actually surprised me yesterday, ditching the well-connected URS Corporation for a new firm to oversee planned airport expansion projects, including the new south runway. But my bigger concern remains: When it comes to...Tags: Transportation, URS Corporation, Politics, Travel, Fort Lauderdale
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Polar bears: Too bad, Sarah
Spin CycleSarah Palin as governor has campaigned to remove polar bears from the endangered species list -- at least in part because the listing complicates development efforts in some parts of Alaska -- and has sued the Interior Department to......Tags: Government, Heads of State, Dirk Kempthorne, Elections, Science and Technology
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Housing crisis: Worst behind us soon?
The Swampby Mark Silva The worst of the housing financing problem underlying the tumult on Wall Street could be behind the nation in a matter of months, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said today. "We're not going to move through this in......Tags: Fannie Mae, Government, Bank of America Corp., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Politics
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Obama pushes economic reform message
The Swampby John McCormick GOLDEN, Colo. - As the most severe financial crisis in at least a generation continues to shake Main Street, Sen. Barack Obama delivered a forceful new speech today to try to seize the economic reform upper hand.......Tags: Federal Reserve, Economic Policy, John McCain, Litigation and Regulation, Economy, Business and Finance
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John McCain: Economy fits his script
The Swampby Mark Silva The economy may never have been John McCain's strong suit -- he has admitted as much more than once -- but he is happy to wear it now. Now that the economic turmoil of the nation at......Tags: Economy, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Federal Reserve, Elections, John McCain
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