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...warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental energy watchdog based in Paris, could add extra weight to the negotiations leading up to the climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month, when leaders will attempt to come to an agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol's limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. "Saving the planet cannot wait," reads the agency's annual World Energy Outlook report, which was released on Tuesday. "The time to act has arrived." (See pictures of new ways to boost energy efficiency...
...Dodd proposal would likewise strip the existing regulators of their consumer-watchdog role, putting that authority in a new, separate body, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). In this Dodd, Frank and Geithner agree that a single agency should not be responsible for both ensuring bank stability (read: profitability) and protecting consumers. The CFPA would have rule-making, supervisory and enforcement authority to hunt abuses in lending and fee-setting. The FDIC would continue to exist as an insurer of deposits, while the Fed would continue to control monetary policy and oversee national financial stability...
...longer jailing journalists and violating civil liberties in the name of national security as they were in the Bush era. So the U.S. is back in the press freedom top 20, as is appropriate for a country where the press has traditionally played its role as independent watchdog well." (See the top 10 newscaster bloopers...
...Erik Ugland, a media lawyer and associate professor at Marquette University's Diederich College of Communication, says the judge will have to decide whether the students are journalists and whether their website could be considered news media. Ugland says Illinois courts have accepted professional journals and government watchdog groups as reporters, suggesting they may take a similarly expansive look at student journalists. (Read "Twitterers Thwart Effort to Gag Newspaper...
...size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the first six months of this year alone, drug and biotech companies and their trade associations spent more than $110 million - that's about $609,000 a day - to influence lawmakers, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics. The drug industry's legion of registered lobbyists numbers 1,228, or 2.3 for every member of Congress. And its campaign contributions to current members of Waxman's committee have totaled $2.6 million over the past three years. (See 10 players in health-care reform...