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...visionary" steps on fuel economy and my role in passing 2007's Energy Independence and Security Act, which increased fuel-economy standards 40%. I will continue to fight currency manipulation and unfair trade practices by our foreign competitors, work for affordable health-care coverage and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 80% by 2050 because I believe those positions are in the best interests of the people of Michigan. John D. Dingell, U.S. Representative, 15TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, MICHIGAN...
...serious and visionary" steps on fuel economy and my role in passing 2007's Energy Independence and Security Act, which increased fuel-economy standards 40%. I will continue to fight currency manipulation and unfair trade practices by our foreign competitors, work for affordable health-care coverage and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 80% by 2050 because I believe those positions are in the best interests of the people of Michigan. John D. Dingell, U.S. Representative, 15th Congressional District, Michigan...
...Even in the capital, Sanaa, there were high-profile killings of foreigners earlier this year and a suicide attack against the U.S. embassy in 2008. When executives from the French energy giant Total, which built the new Balhaf gas plant, decided to go sightseeing in Sanaa's ancient quarter after the ceremony on Nov. 7, they drove through the city in a police-led convoy...
Yemen's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, flew into the Gulf of Aden on Nov. 7 to celebrate the first exports of liquefied natural gas from a sprawling $4.5 billion plant - the biggest ever investment in his otherwise impoverished desert country. A brass band played and politicians applauded the gas tanker as it set sail for South Korea, but Saleh's attention was elsewhere - on the attacks that Saudi Arabia's military forces were waging against antigovernment Shi'ite rebels in the north of Yemen. The rebels "are trying to demolish the economy," Saleh tells TIME, vowing, "We will crush them...
...mounting hostility to Westerners is one reason Total opted to hire thousands of Yemenis to construct its new natural-gas facility, despite the fact that most needed extensive training. The company says Yemenis comprised about 70% of the 11,000 or so people who built the project. Total even negotiated separately with each of the 22 tribes whose land the pipeline travels through in order to avoid angering locals...