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...elect Barack Obama's incoming Administration. It's not yet clear how he'll act, but his renewable energy advisor Jason Grumet has said that Obama would be willing to use the EPA to directly regulate CO2 - something President George W. Bush has refused to do. "This lays the groundwork for Obama to move quickly to put in place a regulatory system and begin to achieve CO2 reduction and build that clean, 21st century economy he talks about," says Nilles. Obama's position on coal isn't exactly clear, though he has said that he will work to develop "clean...
...years she still has left as Alaska governor. And they could be difficult ones. Her aggressive posture toward the state legislature's Troopergate investigation and her emergence as a GOP leader have frayed relationships crucial to Palin's success. Her major accomplishments in Alaska - laying the groundwork for a natural-gas pipeline, reforming oil taxes - relied on support from Democratic lawmakers, who will now be less inclined to cross the aisle...
...Obama’s campaign hurtles toward the finish line, former Clinton White House chief of staff John D. Podesta is quietly laying the groundwork for an Obama administration...
...since Kagan took the helm at the Law School in 2003, she has launched ambitious plans to revitalize the institution, convincing her faculty to approve major revisions to the school’s curriculum while raising $476 million in its five-year capital campaign and laying the groundwork for a large physical upgrade to the campus...
...Despite its absence from his public pronouncements, the Law School represented Obama’s first glimpse of the national limelight. As the first black president of the Law Review, Obama was heralded by the national press—an experience some colleagues say may have helped lay the groundwork for his later career...