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"Yucca Haunts Admin's Lagging Efforts on Nuclear Waste Study Panel"

"While President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal is expected to sound a death knell for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the administration has so far failed to launch the blue-ribbon commission it promised almost a year ago to decide on a waste-disposal alternative."

Source: Greenwire, 01/12/2010

Farm Bureau Declares War on Climate Bill

After getting major concessions in return for bare acquiescence on the House climate bill, the nation's main agribusiness lobby declared it will try to kill climate legislation altogether in the Senate, using conservative rhetoric about a federal "power grab" and expressing doubt about whether human activities are causing global warming.

Source: Reuters, 01/12/2010

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