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...environmentalists, who cheered Obama's new policies even before they were official, the White House's reversal on the California waiver request was particularly sweet. In 2002 California passed regulations that would require automobile manufacturers to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from their vehicles by nearly a third between 2009 and 2016 - effectively resulting in a fuel economy standard of 36 m.p.g. That would have been a significantly tougher standard than the federal rules (the 2007 Energy Act did require corporate average fuel economy [CAFE] to approach that figure, but not until 2020). California requested a waiver for its own tough...
...slow the growth in carbon emissions, it would actively prevent states - even ones with Republican governors - from taking steps on their own. Now, with Obama directing his EPA to reconsider the waiver - and new EPA head Lisa Jackson has said that she would "very, very aggressively" review the request - the door is open to California once again taking the lead on cleaner cars. "It's a tremendously important step because we are in an urgent race against the climate crisis," says Vickie Patton, a senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund...
...that aren't fully honest (e.g. nothing re Hillary) you risk hugely compounding the problem by getting caught in half-truths. You run risk of turning this into 'cover-up.' " - from a note that Stern wrote regarding the firing of the White House travel office staff, allegedly at the request of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Some people claimed that the employees were fired so that Hillary could appoint friends. (New York Times, January...
...permit that would allow Kibler to continue his business. O’Brien said that Kibler soon left the book stand.O’Brien said he tried to obtain this permit, but found himself mired in the city’s bureaucracy. When the city granted his request in Sept. 2006, the permit included restrictions that put him on MBTA property. In June 2008, MBTA officials asked him to move, but O’Brien said he refuses to comply unless he is ordered to do so by a federal judge, as the city gave him permission to operate...
...denied until shortly after TIME.com initially reported that Senator Kennedy's inner circle was angry at his health being used as a justification for her withdrawal. "It has nothing to do with Senator Kennedy," said an aide to Caroline Kennedy, who previously had not responded to TIME.com's request for comment. Meanwhile, a source close to the Senator added, "The Kennedy people are not upset with the Caroline people, because they know it didn't come from...