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EPA Under Fire for Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
After healthcare reform, the next target for House Republicans is EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. We hear about the latest developments in the political battle over global warming. Also, President Obama's State of the Union speech, and street protests in Cairo.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenAfter healthcare reform, the next target for House Republicans is EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. We hear about the latest developments in the political battle over global warming. Also, President Obama's State of the Union speech, and rare street protests in Cairo today appear to have been inspired by the Tunisia's "Jasmine revolution."
Banner image: Smoke stacks at American Electric Power's Mountaineer coal power plant in New Haven, West Virginia. In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest 'clean cole' facility at a coal plant, which will store 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 7,200 feet underground. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/ Getty Images
In this episode
3 storiesThe President's Speech
Tonight's State of the Union address is billed by the White House as a blueprint for economic recovery and competitiveness, but it's also a kind of formal beginning to the President's re-election campaign in 2012. Can Barack Obama rise above the expected clichés?
Read the story8 minGlobal Warming, the EPA and Republicans in Congress
Whatever the President says tonight about global warming, the Environmental Protection Agency is the next House-Republican target after healthcare reform . The GOP is determined to stop, or delay for years, new regulations of greenhouse emissions being promulgated by the EPA.
Read the story37 minEgyptians Take to the Street
Since Tunisia's so-called Jasmine revolution , the world has been watching for similar protests elsewhere in the Middle East. Today's violent "day of rage" against a newly appointed Lebanese prime minister was part of an ongoing story.
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