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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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A generation of Germans picked up the renewable torch that President Reagan tossed aside. The renewable energy revolution didn't end; it moved overseas.
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William Reilly , co-chairman of President Barack Obama ’s commission investigating the BP Plc oil spill, said the oil industry could benefit from a self-policing agency similar to one that monitors the safety of nuclear power plants.
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The U.S. oil industry is giving serious consideration to creating a safety group to prevent catastrophes similar to BP Plc ’s oil spill, said William Reilly , co-chairman of a U.S. panel that studied the disaster.
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President Barack Obama , faced with growing criticism of the government’s response to the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, created a bipartisan commission to investigate the disaster.
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For much of 2006 and into 2007, Environmental Defense Fund had been battling to stop TXU Corp., Texas’s largest power producer, from building 11 coal-fired plants. The barrage of lawsuits, town-hall meetings and online community groups was also becoming a major headache for KKR & Co. , TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s private-equity arm, which were planning the world’s biggest leveraged buyout of the utility company.
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The U.S. panel investigating the BP Plc oil spill found no evidence decisions were made to put profit ahead of safety on the drilling rig, its co-chairman said.
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President Barack Obama should press Cuba to accept tougher offshore-drilling standards as the Cuban government prepares to seek oil 50 miles from Florida, the co- head of a panel on the BP Plc spill said.
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BP Plc ’s gain in trading early today was premature because the operator made most of the mistakes that doomed its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, said William Reilly , co-chairman of a U.S. panel investigating the disaster.
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President Barack Obama ’s moratorium on deep-water drilling is no longer needed because new rules reduce the risk of an uncontrolled spill, according to a report for a panel investigating BP Plc ’s blowout.
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