Published: March 11, 2010
Tags: foreclosure, Obama, RealtyTrac Inc.
By ALAN ZIBEL
AP Real Estate Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The foreclosure crisis isn’t over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down.
RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday that the number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in February grew 6 percent from the year-ago level, the smallest annual increase in four years.
More than 308,000 households, or one [...]
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon controls, climate and energy bill, global warming, greenhouse gases, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, Obama, offshore drilling
By Matthew Daly
AP Writer
Washington — President Barack Obama has made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.
Fourteen senators from both parties — including several who remain undecided on the climate bill — met for more than an hour Tuesday [...]
Published: March 4, 2010
Tags: jobs, Obama, unemployment
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite widespread sentiment that it will not create many jobs, a measure awarding a tax break to U.S. companies that hire unemployed workers appeared headed for House passage Thursday.
The measure also extends federal highway programs through the end of the year.
Some Democrats, especially those representing minority districts, feel [...]
Published: March 3, 2010
Tags: blog, cash for clunkers, energy-efficient, Fetters, Hot Topics, Obama
By Tom Fetters
copy editor
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced some details of a proposed government money-back program for consumers who make energy-saving improvements or buy energy-saving equipment for their homes.
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: benefits, Bunning, jobs, Obama, Senate, unemployment
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday passed a $10 billion measure to maintain unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and provide stopgap funding for highway programs after a holdout Republican dropped stalling tactics that had generated a Washington firestorm.
Kentucky Republican Jim Bunning had been holding up action for days but [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Tags: cash for clunkers, clean energy, Gold Star, Home Star, Obama, rebates, Savannah Technical College, Silver Star
By Darlene Superville
AP Writer
Savannah, Ga. — Sounding a familiar clean-energy theme, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced details of a proposed energy rebate program aimed at spurring demand for insulation and water heaters — and jobs for hurting Americans.
Obama said the so-called Home Star program would reward people who buy energy-saving equipment with an on-the-spot [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
Tags: labor, Obama, SEIU, union, Vale AFL-CIO
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor’s high hopes for major gains under President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress have dimmed, raising fresh doubts about union leverage even in the best of political times.
Prospects for a health overhaul have faded. Even slimmer are the chances of achieving labor’s chief goal, passage of a [...]
Published: February 25, 2010
Tags: mortgage, Obama, Treasury Department
Washington (AP) — Lawmakers are taking aim at the Obama administration’s struggling mortgage assistance program, with Republicans calling it a worthless exercise and Democrats saying it doesn’t go far enough.
In a report Thursday, Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called the program a misuse of taxpayer money. Though $75 billion has been set [...]
Published: February 23, 2010
Tags: Asian carp, Great Lakes, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, Obama
The Associated Press
Advocates are lobbying Congress to boost spending on Great Lakes environmental protection and preventing an Asian carp invasion.
More than 100 activists from across the region are visiting House and Senate members Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
They want the government to put $475 million into the 2011 budget for a Great Lakes restoration program, the [...]
Published: February 21, 2010
Tags: Council of Great Lakes Governor, Doyle, EPA, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Coalition, Obama, wetlands
Comments: 1
By JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Obama administration has developed a five-year blueprint for rescuing the Great Lakes, a sprawling ecosystem plagued by toxic contamination, shrinking wildlife habitat and invasive species.
The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion for long-awaited repairs after a century of damage to the lakes, which hold [...]
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