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Environmental groups are stepping up pressure on President Barack Obama to issue the first greenhouse-gas limits for power plants as the utility industry seeks to weaken the standards before a deadline next month.
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President Barack Obama, whose inaugural address made climate change a second-term priority, could bypass Congress and implement much of his environmental agenda unilaterally through regulations and executive action.
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When President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the biggest question he’ll face will be how to get an ambitious second-term agenda through a divided Congress.
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A panel advising the Obama administration on carbon dioxide regulations is deadlocked over what pollution-cutting technology power plants, factories and refineries should be required to use starting in 2011.
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An auto refrigerant developed by Honeywell International Inc. and DuPont Co. and forecast to generate billions of dollars in sales is being shunned by two of Germany’s largest carmakers after failing Daimler AG internal safety tests.
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Chinese solar stocks rose in New York after U.S. President Barack Obama called for the development of sustainable energy in his inauguration speech, boosting the outlook for panel manufacturers.
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States can’t invoke federal law to force utilities to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, shutting off one avenue for groups that advocate bolder steps against climate change.
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President Barack Obama could cut greenhouse-gas emissions from U.S. power plants 26 percent by 2020, the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a plan that puts pressure on the administration to issue new rules.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling that will mean new limits on class-action suits, ruled that Wal- Mart Stores Inc. can’t be sued for discrimination on behalf of potentially a million female workers.
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The federal government’s first-ever public accounting of the sources of greenhouse gases puts the spotlight on Southern Co. and other power companies that will soon face regulation of those emissions.
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