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Recent Featured ArticlesFeatured Articles July 23, 2010 1,200 hear Marcellus Shale debate
Source:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Concerns about the risk of water contamination and public health problems from Marcellus Shale drilling dominated a sometimes loud U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Southpointe attended by 1,200 people Thursday... July 22, 2010 Free Trade With Panama – U.S. No—Canada--Yes
Source:Robert R. McMillan
A few weeks ago Canada signed a free trade deal with Panama. At the same time, the trade deal between the United States and Panama, signed in 2007, has yet to be approved by the Congress. How can that be when President Obama...[more] July 22, 2010 NY, Ohio seek lead plantiff status against BP
Source:Biz Journal
New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray have filed petitions seeking co-lead plaintiff status in a securities fraud action against BP Plc. DiNapoli oversees New York’s $132 billion... July 22, 2010 4 Oil Firms Commit $1 Billion for Gulf Rapid-Response Plan
Source:NY Times
Four of the world’s biggest oil companies said on Wednesday that they were committing $1 billion to create a rapid-response system to deal with deepwater oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, seeking to restore public confidence in... July 22, 2010 Obama signs sweeping Wall Street overhaul into law
Source:Reuters
President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday the most comprehensive financial regulatory overhaul since the Great Depression, vowing to stop risky behavior on Wall Street that imperiled the U.S. economy July 21, 2010 Pay Czar Will Seek Stricter Clawbacks From TARP Firms
Source:CNBC
Kenneth Feinberg, Wall Street's "pay czar," plans to ask several financial firms to strengthen clawback provisions in executive pay agreements, but will not require them to recover bonuses paid at the height of the financial... July 21, 2010 Great Recession Doesn't Slow the Greening of GE
Source:GreenBiz.com
FAIRFIELD, CT — Ecomagination continues to pay big dividends for General Electric, according to its just-released sustainability report. After investing $1.5 billion in ecomagination products since 2005 -- and growing the... July 21, 2010 Countries pledge global support for clean energy
Source:Reuters
The United States and dozens of other countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars toward clean energy initiatives to help battle climate change, U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said on Tuesday. Meeting in Washington,... July 21, 2010 Messy cleanup of BP oil spill damages the Gulf
Source:AP
FOURCHON BEACH, La. — The 5,600 vessels taking part in the oil spill operation on the Gulf of Mexico make up the largest fleet assembled since the Allied invasion of Normandy, according to the Coast Guard. Hordes of helicopters,... July 20, 2010 Study: 14 States At Severe Risk Of Water Shortages
Source:CropLife.com
Water shortage risks will hit a very large percentage of all U.S. counties by mid-century, according to a major new TetraTech study released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The county-by-county analysis... July 20, 2010 Economic Outlook from Boardrooms to Bedrooms: Dismal
Source:Fox Business News
Who says Americans are dummies when it comes to math? Turns out, you don’t need an MBA to figure out just how bad this economy is; regardless what the spinmeisters in Washington want us to believe. July 20, 2010 Small leaks spring at BP oil well; cap to stay in place for now
Source:Washington Post
New problems arose in the struggle to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as bubbles and seepage appeared in four areas around the damaged BP well, but Obama administration and company officials agreed to keep the new well cap... July 20, 2010 Should Taxpayers Subsidize Soda?
Source:Center for Science in the Public Interest
WASHINGTON—The soft drink industry receives a $4 billion subsidy from taxpayers each year, according to an editorial published today in the American Journal of Public Health[more] July 19, 2010 Why Do Boards Fail?
Source:Fresh BusinessThinking.com
Reflecting on some spectacular corporate governance failures, Bridget Biggar, Director of HR consulting firm Management Intelligence, argues that it is time to put Boards under the same performance criteria as other management... July 19, 2010 BP Hopes to Keep Gulf Well Closed, but Seeping Is Detected
Source:NY Times
After three days of encouraging pressure tests, a senior BP official said Sunday that the company’s recently capped well in the Gulf of Mexico was holding up and that BP now hoped to keep the well closed until it could be... July 19, 2010 Nike Spends $25 Million on CSR Annually; Refuses to Pay $2.2 Million in Severance to Honduran Garment Workers
Source:Justmeans
Sometimes the CSR decisions of big corporations are as perplexing as a jigsaw puzzle with missing parts. Why the company would hire a 135-people CSR department, amass a 74-people compliance team and spend approximately $25... July 19, 2010 To Stop Global Warming ... Let Other Air Pollution Go?
Source:The Daily Green
Power companies are proposing a compromise that could broker a deal in energy legislation: An energy cap on carbon, but at a price. July 16, 2010 Congress passes financial reform bill
Source:Washington Post
Congress gave final approval Thursday to the most ambitious overhaul of financial regulation in generations, ending more than a year of wrangling over the shape of the new rules and shifting the government's focus to the... July 16, 2010 New interactive map shows effects of climate change
Source:Independent.co.uk
Global mapping service Google Earth added a new interactive layer allowing users to see the effects of climate change on the planet in a bid to raise awareness of global warming and the effects of CO2 emissions . July 16, 2010 BP Jumps in London After Temporarily Halting Gulf Oil Leak
Source:Bloomberg/BusinessWeek
BP Plc surged as much as 6.2 percent in London trading after the company stopped the flow of oil from its leaking Gulf of Mexico well for the first time since the spill started in April. BP rose as far as 426.45 pence, the... July 16, 2010 Are compensation committees covering for high CEO pay?
Source:CNN Money
FORTUNE -- When you want to understand whether the CEO runs the board or the board oversees the CEO, a good place to start is to look at the work of the Compensation committee. Compensation committees so impact how companies are... July 15, 2010 UK, France and Germany push for 30 per cent carbon emissions cut by 2020
Source:PowerGenWorldWide
A new push to persuade Europe to cut its carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 was kicked off today in a joint initiative by the UK, Germany and France. In an article published simultaneously in the three countries, the... July 15, 2010 Leak Hampers BP Effort to Shut Off Well and Halt Spill
Source:NY Times
ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 50 miles off Louisiana — BP stopped collecting oil from its runaway well on Wednesday afternoon, laying the groundwork for a critical test that could halt the rush of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the first... July 15, 2010 Bloomberg Poll: Americans Skeptical Financial Overhaul Will Avert Future Crisis
Source:BusinessWire
NEW YORK-- Americans harbor doubts that a financial-regulation bill about to be passed by Congress will do what President Barack Obama says it will: help avoid another crisis and make their finances safer, a Bloomberg National...[more] July 14, 2010 Immigration Laws Over The Last Sixty Years
Source:Robert R. McMillan
In 1952, the first dimension of today’s current Immigration Laws was passed by the Congress. It created quotas, by country, which then restricted the number of legal immigrants admitted to the United States. In addition, a...[more] |
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