President Barack Obama announced Saturday the awarding of nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that he said will create thousands of jobs and increase the country’s use of renewable energy sources. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged barack, billion-for, country, create-thousands, del-icio-us, increase-the, increase-the-country, jobs-and, new-solar, renewable-energy, saturday, the-awardingThe owner of the broken Deepwater Horizon rig spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico criticized President Barack Obama’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling and a BP executive was heckled Tuesday at a major oil conference. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged a-major-oil, deepwater-horizon, major-oil, obama, rig-spewing, six-month-ban, the-broken, tuesdayWASHINGTON – (AP) Congress is expected to reject President Barack Obama’s proposed mandate that banks offer customers “plain vanilla” financial products, such as a 30-year fixed mortgage. The defeat would be a victory for the industry, which contends that such a proposa Excerpt from: Congress wary of ‘plain vanilla’ bank …
Also tagged 30-year-fixed, a-30-year-fixed, congress, excerpt, financial-products, obama, plain-vanilla, president, proposed-mandate, the-industry, victory-for, which-contendsWASHINGTON – (AP) President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser on Friday pressed for new restrictions on the biggest and most intertwined financial institutions and said the industry should not count on government to rescue them from crisis again. “Our financial system will not be fa Read more: Summers: Troubled firms should …
Also tagged adviser-on-friday, and-most, and-said, from-crisis, industry, president, pressed-for, should-not, the-biggest, top-economicWhen President Barack Obama signed anti-tobacco legislation into law in June, giving the Food and Drug Administration for the first time the authority to regulate tobacco, experts said the law was likely to be challenged in the courts. And today it was. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Also tagged a-signed-anti-tobacco, authority, courts, experts-said, first, food, for-the, giving-the-food, obama, the-courts-, the-lawBloomberg – July 17 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. House approved a plan, opposed by President Barack Obama, that seeks to force General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC to restore agreements with dealerships shed during the automakers’ bankruptcy proceedings. Read more: House Passes Bill to Make GM, Chrysler Rehire Dealers … Read …
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