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Obama names the first woman to head the Secret Service
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday named a high-ranking career employee of the U.S. Secret Service to become its first female director. Julia A. Pierson, a veteran of the agency’s Miami and Orlando, Fla., field offices, serves as...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, U.S. Secret Service, Career and Workplace, Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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Toyota offers little to rave about in 2013 RAV4
It's all crossovers these days. From the polo grounds of Malibu to the campgrounds of Maine, nearly a fifth of all vehicles sold in the U.S. last year resided somewhere in this netherworld between a car and an SUV. So the stakes were high for Toyota's...
Tags: Honda, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ford, Vehicles, Toyota
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Groups sue to protect bees and pollinators from pesticides
The plight of bees is headed to a courtroom. A coalition of beekeepers, environmentalists and consumer groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency this week, contending the agency has not done enough to protect bees from...
Tags: Food Industry, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Trials, Environmental Issues
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U.S. could cut vehicles' fossil fuel use, emissions by 80% by 2050
A new National Research Council report says the U.S. may be able to reduce fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 in light-duty cars and trucks. The highly ambitious goal could be reached, the report says, through a...
Tags: Honda, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Disasters, Barack Obama, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Iraq war cost: $6 trillion. What else could have been done?
In case you were wondering, the price tag for the war in Iraq could eventually top $6 trillion. Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion, occupation and slugfest of Iraq, which, lest we forget, was begun in the name of protecting us...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Iraq War (2003-2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Income, Iraq
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Sen. Roy Blunt placing a hold on Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON -- Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said on Monday that he is placing a hold on Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, which could delay a full Senate vote on the nominee. Blunt said the hold...
Tags: Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Barack Obama, Roy Blunt
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Will new EPA goals raise gasoline prices or clean air, save lives?
Depends on whom you ask. The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed what it called "sensible standards for cars and gasoline that will significantly reduce harmful pollution, prevent thousands of premature deaths and illnesses" while...
Tags: Gasoline Industry, Ford, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Petroleum Industry, American Petroleum
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EPA threatens to sue butane-storage facility in San Pedro
L.A. NOWThe Environmental Protection Agency said it has notified the owners of a 40-year-old San Pedro tank farm, which has up to 25 million gallons of highly flammable butane, that it is prepared to sue to ensure compliance with federal law.... -
Coronado sailors clean up imperiled birds' nesting areas
CORONADO —On most days, a three-mile stretch of Silver Strand beach here is used for training Navy SEALs, sailors and Marines. Thursday was not a usual day. Dozens of sailors spent the morning in a slow, head-down walk along the restricted...
Tags: Wildlife, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Immigration reform -- for the climate
For environmentalists, population has long been a problem. Many of the things we do wouldn't cause so much trouble if there weren't so many of us. It's why I wrote a book some years ago called "Maybe One: An Argument for Smaller Families." Heck, it's...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Conservation, Weather, Elections
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Abuse pollutes state environmental law
SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Jerry Hill grew up in San Francisco and vividly remembers the rare suffocating days of late summer when the fog fled and people sweltered. The city's natural air conditioner clicked off, temperatures soared into the 90s and...
Tags: Jerry Hill, Laws, Politics, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obama to announce picks to head Energy Department, EPA
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is expected Monday to name Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear physicist Ernest J. Moniz to lead the Energy Department, and the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-air chief, Gina McCarthy, to run that agency,...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Barack Obama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Conservation
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