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The Oil Industry Rolls On...
The Gulf oil spill won't stop the oil industry from drilling in dangerous places or from making enough money to support almost everyone's pension plan, federal judges included. Also, Congress reaches agreement on financial reform, and Happy Meals and public health.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe Gulf oil spill won't stop the oil industry from drilling in dangerous places or from making enough money to support almost everyone's pension plan, federal judges included. Also, Congress reaches agreement on financial reform. On Reporter's Notebook, is McDonald's "the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children?" We hear about Happy Meals with plastic toys and childhood obesity.
Banner image of BP's Liberty project, Alaska: Judy Patrick
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3 storiesCongress Reaches Agreement on Financial Reform
President Obama is in Toronto for the latest G-20 summit, and some members of Congress stayed up all night to give him a kind of departing gift. It's final approval of finance reform by a joint committee, and the President was glad to see it . Kevin Hall is national economics correspondent for the McClatchy Newspapers .
Read the story8 minThe Oil Industry and the Government
The Gulf oil spill is producing hundreds of lawsuits in several states, but federal judges are bowing out because of investments in the oil industry. Judge Martin Feldman, who threw out the President's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling on Tuesday, recently held stock in Transocean and Halliburton.
Read the story37 minNutrition Group Takes Aim at Happy Meal Toys
Plastic toys with Happy Meals encourage kids to eat the food that's producing an epidemic of childhood obesity. Santa Clara County, home to California's Silicon Valley, has made a decision to actively promote childhood nutrition and has banned such giveaways in unincorporated areas.
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