Archive for April, 2010

WASHINGTON — Louisiana state and federal officials on Friday criticized the company responsible for the massive and continuing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, saying BP’s efforts to seal the leak from its damaged offshore well and protect coastal areas…

Washington…The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation of the explosion at Massey Energy’s Big Branch mine in West Virginia, law enforcement sources said.

The case originated in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District…

The Obama administration on Friday proposed reducing mercury emissions by more than 50% from industrial boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators by December.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the plan would yield at least $18…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The numbers would be excellent in normal times, but for a country recovering from deep recession, they’re not enough.

Spending by consumers rose by the fastest pace in three years, helping the economy grow at an annual rate of 3.2…

Offshore oil drilling could become unacceptable, eliminating Barack Obama’s
bargaining tool with the Republicans, writes Geoffrey Lean.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and U2 lead singer Bono have met in the Oval Office to discuss the administration’s development work in Africa.

The White House says the social activist singer joined with Obama, along with members of his…

The Supreme Court is nearly ready to take up a challenge to a strict Arizona immigration law, not the new measure that authorizes the police to arrest suspected illegals, but an earlier law that would punish employers who knowingly hire them.

All the…

Sue Schwartz says she’s been called a racist so many times she doesn’t mind the label anymore. If wanting immigrants to enter the country legally, like her great-grandparents from Mexico, and obey the laws of the land makes her racist, then so be it, she says firmly.