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  1. April 17, 2009, 1:59 pm

    ENVIRONMENT: Last Minute Flurry of Ethanol Lobbying at OMB

    The Obama administration is getting plenty of input on the Farm Belt’s favorite alternative fuel — ethanol. Of specific interest: whether it helps or hurts in the effort to combat climate change. Read more

  2. April 15, 2009, 11:43 am

    ENVIRONMENT: Explaining the Climate Change Strategy

    Global warming is bad for public health — that’s the essence of a formal “finding” that the Environmental Protection Agency is set to make later this week. Some view the move as long overdue; others think it overreaches. But what it is, most clearly, is just one step in an elaborate dance being performed by the Obama administration and congressional leaders, who are united in their aim to force action on climate change. Read more

  3. March 30, 2009, 2:18 pm

    ENVIRONMENT: Late-Breaking Suggestions for Climate Bill Pouring In

    The outline of a federal policy on climate change will begin to take shape tomorrow, as House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., releases his long-awaited draft of a bill to reduce the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions. And befitting an issue that has seen a 300 percent increase in lobbyists over the past five years, there have been plenty of last-minute suggestions for details to include in the legislation. Read more

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