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News & UpdatesNovember 20, 2008 California leads fight against climate change on global levelBy: LA Times Gov. Schwarzenegger signs a pact with heads of other states and provinces to cut greenhouse emissions. 'We have got to do something worldwide here,' he says. November 20, 2008 Senate Probe to Look at Bond-Rating FirmsBy: Wall Street Journal The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is opening a probe into causes of the global financial crisis, focusing in part on whether bond-ratings firms, driven by conflicts of interest, boosted mortgage investments... November 20, 2008 FOMC sees yearlong recession, minutes showBy: MarketWatch Federal Reserve policymakers now expect the U.S. economy to contract for as much as a year, with the risk that the slowdown could persist for even longer, according to edited minutes of a closed-door meeting of the Federal Open... November 20, 2008 GM, Ford, Chrysler Depart From Congress Empty-Handed (By: Bloomberg.com U.S. lawmakers deadlocked on a plan to bail out the Big Three automakers, leaving General Motors Corp. facing the prospect it could run out of cash before a new Congress can come to the rescue next year.
November 19, 2008 FDA opens new China officeBy: Associated Press The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened an office Wednesday in China's capital — its first outside the United States — as part of a new global strategy to ensure the safety of trillions of dollars of imports. Product safety... November 19, 2008 Obama Embrace of Wall Street Insiders Points to Politic ReformsBy: Bloomberg.com During the height of the financial crisis in late September, some of Barack Obama's campaign advisers pushed him in a conference call to distance himself from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The former Goldman Sachs Group Inc.... November 19, 2008 EPA split over air quality rule changesBy: Houston Chronicle The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, despite the... November 19, 2008 Google CEO Schmidt lays out U.S. energy ideasBy: Reuters The United States should use part of any future economic stimulus package to connect wind turbines and solar energy to the nation's electricity grid, said Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, an advisor to President-elect... November 19, 2008 U.S. regulators face fight on IFRS accounting costBy: Reuters Just four days after releasing a formal "roadmap" proposal to move U.S. companies to international accounting rules, U.S. regulators are facing a slew of complaints about the millions of dollars it would cost companies to make... November 19, 2008 Dingell and Stupak Release Government Accountability Office Report on Nuclear SafetyBy: RTT News Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak (D-MI) released a new Government Accountability Office report Tuesday that argued the need for... |
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