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February 17, 2010 The Future For Healthcare Reform

Source:Robert R. McMillan

For over one year, the President, his staff, and the Congress have had a focus on healthcare and the uninsured – not the escalating unemployment statistics. Why? I have not been able to understand the President’s priorities. ...[more]

February 16, 2010 Bans sought for chemical BPA in baby, toddler products

Source:USA Today

States are moving to ban the chemical BPA from food and drink containers, primarily those meant for infants and toddlers, because of health concerns

February 16, 2010 Shell freezes pay of top executives after shareholder revolt

Source:Guardian.co.uk

Royal Dutch Shell has today bowed to pressure from major investors by announcing a major overhaul of its executive pay that will see the salaries of top directors frozen and new limits set on bonuses. The oil giant has been...

February 16, 2010 EU States Cool to Obama Bank Trading Plan

Source:ABC News

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If President Barack Obama's plan to ban proprietary trading at some banks was applied in the European Union, it could be problematic for the bloc's universal banks, an EU document obtained by Reuters said. EU...

February 15, 2010 SEC risk disclosure requirement looms

Source:BusinessInsurance.com

WASHINGTON—Most public companies must comply with federal risk management disclosure rules that go into effect in about two weeks. The risk management disclosure requirements are part of a broader corporate governance document...

February 15, 2010 Series of missteps by climate scientists threatens climate-change agenda

Source:Global Warming

With its 2007 report declaring that the "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel Prize -- and a new degree of public trust in the controversial science of...

February 15, 2010 Future Bailouts of America

Source:Gretchen Morgenson, NY Times

AS Washington spins its wheels on financial reform, it’s becoming painfully clear that the problem of entities that are too interconnected or “too politically powerful to fail” is also too hard for our policy makers to tackle.

February 15, 2010 Trial lawyers to Obama: Don’t deal on tort reform in health talks

Source:The Hill

President Barack Obama wants a bipartisan deal on health reform, but trial lawyers don’t want him to deal on a top Republican priority: tort reform. Trial lawyers defeated President George W. Bush’s push for medical liability...

February 13, 2010 Number of swine flu cases in the U.S. reaches 57 million

Source:Los Angeles Times

An estimated 57 million Americans have contracted pandemic H1N1 influenza since the outbreak began last April, about 257,000 have been hospitalized with complications from it, and nearly 12,000 have died, according to estimates...

February 13, 2010 U.S. to Back Loans for Reactors

Source:New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Obama is to announce on Tuesday a loan guarantee to allow construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia, according to administration officials.

February 12, 2010 Climate's snow job

Source:Thomas Kostigen, MarketWatch

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Both global warming skeptics and climate change believers are using the snowstorms pounding the East Coast of the United States as fodder to further their debate.

February 12, 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Update -SEC DECISION RAISES THE BAR FOR CORPORATE (ISSUER) DISCLOSURE ON SUSTAINABILITY RISKS

Source:Hank Boerner, Chairman Governance & Accountability Institute, BusinessWired

One more shoe drops – this one a size 15 or more – in the rising and accelerating importance of ESG & Sustainability corporate key performance indicators and ESG-related factors for investment management and financial analysis,...

February 12, 2010 Poll finds most Americans are unhappy with government

Source:Washington Post

Two-thirds of Americans are "dissatisfied" or downright "angry" about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar...

February 12, 2010 Rebate Program Gives Up to $250 for Purchase of New, Energy-Saving Appliances

Source:ABC News

Cash for Appliances is a government program through which consumers can get hundreds of dollars in rebates for the purchase of new energy-efficient appliances and certain home improvements.

February 11, 2010 Internal Auditors Should Leverage New SEC Proxy Disclosure Rules to Support Governance and Risk Management, Says IIA Alert

Source:The Institute of Internal Auditors

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — New proxy disclosure rules recently issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) present chief audit executives (CAEs) with opportunities to demonstrate internal auditing’s vital role in...[more]

February 11, 2010 IEA Raises 2010 Oil Demand Estimate on Economic Recovery, Asia

Source:BusinessWeek

The International Energy Agency raised its forecast for global oil demand this year as developing countries need more crude to fuel their economies. The IEA increased its estimate for world demand in 2010 by 170,000 barrels a...

February 11, 2010 Ben Bernanke outlines strategy to withdraw US stimulus

Source:BBC News

The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, began on Wednesday to outline the central bank's strategy for withdrawing its stimulus money.

February 10, 2010 NGOs Rush In To Fill the Void

Source:Richard Barr

Government Isn’t Everything… With President Obama’s presidency looking more like it will not be able to pull off cap and trade; any carbon tax; and any meaningful reduction of the kind that we need to make a dent in world wide...[more]

February 10, 2010 China declares new national food-safety campaign

Source:AP

BEIJING — China declared a new food-safety campaign Wednesday after contaminated milk products from an earlier scandal showed up repackaged in several places around the country, exposing weaknesses in the country's promise to...

February 10, 2010 Paulson Tells Buffett Banks to Repay ‘Every Penny’

Source:BusinessWeek

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, responding to a question from billionaire Warren Buffett, said the U.S. government will be repaid in full for the funds it put into the country’s lenders.

February 10, 2010 Corporate Governance in Sad Shape

Source:The Street.com

A new book documenting how poor the state of corporate governance is in America -- and how it was a major cause of the financial meltdown -- will make you sick. Money for Nothing, authored by former Lehman Brothers banker John...

February 9, 2010 Corporate Sustainability Ranking Gets a Face Lift at Davos

Source:Bill Baue, CSRWire

Last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saw a major upgrade in the quantification of corporate sustainability with the unveiling of what I’ll call the “second generation” of the Global 100 Most Sustainable...[more]

February 9, 2010 Water at core of climate change impacts-UN experts

Source:Reuters

The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday.

February 9, 2010 On Health Bill, G.O.P.’s Road Is a New Map

Source:New York Times

When Republicans take President Obama up on his invitation to hash out their differences over health care this month, they will carry with them a fairly well-developed set of ideas intended to make health insurance more widely...

February 8, 2010 U.S.-China Friction: Why Neither Side Can Afford a Split

Source:Time Magazine

It hasn't been a banner few weeks for U.S.-China relations. In mid-January, Google announced that it was contemplating pulling out of China because of repeated attacks on its network as well as censorship constraints. In the...

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