GM's Champion Stalls
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Following the election victory of Barack Obama, veteran Democratic Congressman John Dingell has been ousted as chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by Henry Waxman.
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Green Meets Greenwash
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Sneaky Manufacturers Shrink Packaging, While Keeping Prices the Same
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Prices of your favorite grocery items are skyrocketing, but you probably don't know it.
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GM Employees Asked to Drive Bailout Lobbying
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"General Motors, teetering on the brink of insolvency, has taken the extraordinary step of calling on employees and dealers to personally urge lawmakers to approve another loan package that might keep the beleaguered automaker from going under," reports Wired.com. GM North America president Troy Clarke emailed 29,000 employees, "Your elected officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is critical. ...
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FCC Votes to Open Up White Spaces
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to open up the "white spaces" on the television spectrum that will be available when the U.S. switches from analog to all-digital in February 2009.
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Change, of a Limited Sort, Comes to K Street
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"Washington's $3 billion lobbying industry has begun shedding Republican staffers, snapping up Democratic operatives and entire firms, a shift that started even before Tuesday's ballots were counted," reports the Wall Street Journal.
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CIA Contractor Offers to Keep the Peace on Election Day
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Evergreen Defense & Security Services (EDSS), an Oregon-based aviation company and military contractor with a history of working for the CIA, recently offered their services on Election Day. EDSS "has recognized the potential conflict that could occur on November 4," firm president Tom Wiggins wrote in an email to Oregon county clerks. "EDSS proposes to post sentries at each voting center ...
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DCI Group's Stealth Campaign Torpedoed Freddie Mac Reform
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Pete Yost reports that "Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse.
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AIG's Got the Public's Money to Burn
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The insurance company American International Group (AIG), which "vowed to temper spending after hosting a confe
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Coal Burners Invest in Environmental Journalism
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The Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ), which promotes "excellence in environmental journalism," is gearing up for its annual conference in Roanoke, Virginia in mid-October.
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