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Republicans block vote on nominee to lead EPA

By John M. Broder May. 10, 2013

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans continued a campaign to delay confirmation of President Barack Obama’s second-term Cabinet-level nominees on Thursday, blocking a committee vote on Gina McCarthy, the president’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

World and Nation

Mexico and US agree on oil and gas development in Gulf

By John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss Feb. 21, 2012

WASHINGTON — The United States and Mexico reached agreement Monday on regulating oil and gas development along their maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico, ending years of negotiations and potentially opening more than a million acres to deepwater drilling.

World and Nation

Obama’s regulatory air emission program halted by Congress

By John M. Broder Apr. 8, 2011

WASHINGTON — The House voted 255 to 172 Thursday to halt the Obama administration’s program to regulate industrial air emissions linked to climate change, delivering a rebuke to a central tenet of the president’s energy and environmental policy.

World and Nation

Companies aware of cement flaws before oil blast, report says

By John M. Broder Oct. 29, 2010

WASHINGTON — Halliburton officials knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said Thursday.

World and Nation

New U.S. emissions and fuel economy standards take aim at heavy vehicles

By John M. Broder Oct. 26, 2010

WASHINGTON — The federal government announced the first national emissions and fuel economy standards for heavy vehicles Monday, one of a series of regulatory steps that the Obama administration is taking to increase energy efficiency and reduce atmospheric pollution in the absence of congressional action on climate change.

World and Nation

Bid to curb offshore drilling imperils payouts, BP says

By Clifford Krauss and John M. Broder Sep. 3, 2010

BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

World and Nation

A call to triple U.S. spending 
on energy research

By John M. Broder Jun. 11, 2010

WASHINGTON — The United States is badly lagging in basic research on new forms of energy, deepening the nation’s dependence on dirty fuels and crippling its international competitiveness, a diverse group of business executives warn in a study to be released Thursday.

News

New EPA scrutiny of plastic chemical

By John M. Broder Mar. 30, 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to add bisphenol-A, or BPA, a plastic widely used in food packaging and plastic bottles, to its list of chemicals of concern because of potential adverse impacts on the environment and human and animal health.

World and Nation

Last-Minute Politicking Before Texas and Ohio

By Elisabeth Bumiller and John M. Broder Mar. 4, 2008

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama battled over national security and trade in a frantic burst of last-minute campaigning on Monday as Clinton accused Obama of deception and new evidence of discord surfaced within her own camp.

World and Nation

McCain Asserts Greenhouse Gas Emissions Must Be Capped

By Elisabeth Bumiller and John M. Broder May. 13, 2008

Sen. John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change.

World and Nation

Democrats Seek Compromise To Seat Disputed Delegates

By John M. Broder Mar. 7, 2008

With the two Democratic presidential candidates in near-deadlock and battling for every delegate, party leaders and the rival campaigns started searching in earnest on Thursday for a way to seat delegations from Florida and Michigan. But they remained deeply divided over how to do so.

World and Nation

Facing Recession, Clinton and Obama Push Populist Projects

By John M. Broder and Jeff Zeleny Feb. 19, 2008

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y, and Barack Obama, D-Ill., intensified their populist appeals on Monday, responding to widespread economic anxiety and pushing the Democratic Party further from the business-friendly posture once championed by Bill Clinton.

World and Nation

Romney Obtains Crucial Win Over McCain in Mich. Primary

By John M. Broder Jan. 16, 2008

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran as a son of Michigan though he left the state nearly 40 years ago, won the Republican primary here with a message aimed at voters deeply anxious about the state’s economy and their own financial prospects.

World and Nation

Federal Prosecutors Subpoena Blackwater Employees in Iraq

By David Johnston and John M. Broder Nov. 20, 2007

Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to some of the Blackwater employees present at a Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad in which the company’s security personnel killed 17 Iraqi civilians, lawyers in the case and government officials briefed on the matter said Monday.

News

Virginia Tech Shooting Takes 33 Lives, Shocks Academic Community

By Shaila Dewan and John M. Broder Apr. 20, 2007

The police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student, as the killer of 32 people in the shooting rampage at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, releasing new information on Tuesday about the troubled mind of a young man few people on campus knew.

World and Nation

Edwards Says Presidential Bid 'Goes On' Despite His Wife's Breast Cancer

By John M. Broder and Christine Hauser Mar. 23, 2007

John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said Thursday that his wife's cancer had returned, but that his bid for the presidency "goes on strongly."

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