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...tougher than national laws, provided that the Environmental Protection Agency issues a waiver, which was denied under George W. Bush.) For Obama, the simple fact that these habitually warring parties were willing to come together on the new requirements was as important as the 1.8 billion bbl. of oil and 900 million metric tons of greenhouse gases the rules are expected to save. "In the past, an agreement such as this would have been considered impossible," he said. "What everyone here believes, even as views differ on many important issues, is that the status quo is no longer acceptable...
...Located in Fiesole at the western edge of Florence, the I Tatti estate covers 75 acres and contains about a dozen major buildings as well as an immaculately tended historic garden, which combines English and Italian landscape designs, and a working farm, which continues to produce wine and olive oil. The entrance is preceded by a long cypress avenue which ends in a small garden leading up to the magnificent Tuscan villa. As early as the 1910s, Berenson had made clear his desire to leave his house, library, and collection to Harvard, which he credited with opening intellectual doors...
...version of landmark climate-change legislation, which the Senate is scheduled to pick up this summer. On his website, Franken declares his support for renewable energy: "I think we need a new 'Apollo project' - this time to fundamentally change our energy policy and end our reliance on foreign oil." But Franken will also be representing Minnesota: his website lists much longer and more detailed positions on agriculture. In the House, the rural caucus - big supporters of ethanol - was among the measure's biggest hurdles, and Franken is a big ethanol devotee. Though he has not made his position known...
...Piers Morgan, the oleaginous foil to David Hasselhoff on BGT's U.S. sister show, America's Got Talent, reprises this role in Britain, pouring oil on any waters stirred up by sharp-tongued fellow judge Simon Cowell. It was Morgan who at the start of last night's final revealed the real meaning of the event. "How good it is we have something that takes the world's eyes off our greedy bankers and corrupt politicians," he said. In Britain, where Morgan is still remembered as the former editor of the salacious tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror...
...those feeling the pain at the gas pumps, however, there is one piece of good news. Oil is unlikely to hit $147 a barrel again - at least not during the coming decades. The U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday that oil prices would likely rise to $110 a barrel by 2015 and $130 a barrel by 2030. By that time the world oil markets might once again follow the normal rules of economics...