Word: cleanup
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...move came after Obama officials spent part of the weekend playing defense on AIG, as more details of the bailout became public. But the harsh criticism of the company is unlikely to stem rising public outrage with the multibillion-dollar cleanup operation. That anger came after federal officials named dozens of U.S. and European financial institutions that, together with municipalities in Virginia, California and elsewhere, have shared in more than $170 billion in AIG bailout money. (See 25 people to blame for the financial collapse...
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY $10.5 billion, a 35% budget increase. Calls for the creation of a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, funding for Great Lakes cleanup and investments in water-infrastructure projects...
...Europe" famously declined to join the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But six years on, countries such as France and Germany are eager to get in on the cleanup process in Iraq - and the hundreds of billions of dollars in business that effort is expected to generate...
Peru currently produces around 20,000 tons of solid waste daily, according to government statistics. Most of this waste is dumped indiscriminately, ending up in rivers or the Pacific Ocean. A cleanup campaign in late January removed 30 tons of garbage from a 3-mile stretch along the banks of the Rimac, the principal river in Lima. Peru has only eight properly designed and operational landfills nationwide...
...Havoc A devastating ice storm hammered the Southeast, killing 55 people and leaving 1.3 million homes without power. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear called the storm the worst in the state's history and asked the White House to declare disaster status, which would provide funding to help cover a cleanup whose cost has surged past $45 million...