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President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday to Congress contained references to the state of disrepair of a school in Dillon, S.C. Ray Rogers, superintendent of Dillon School District Two, discusses how the school stands to benefit from the stimulus plan.

Greenpeace today welcomed India's first step on its National Action Plan on Climate Change, a market mechanism that will phase out incandescent bulbs, but called for clear targets and timelines on the other proposals listed in the plan.

President Barack Obama spoke to a joint session of Congress for the first time last night before a national audience. He outlined an ambitious plan to repair the national economy, and reemphasized his commitment to health care, and education as top priorities. But some Republicans are skeptical of Obama's agenda.

In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama pledged nothing less than a transformation in the way America uses energy in order to 'save our planet from the ravages of climate change' and reinvigorate a troubled economy.Specifically, the president asked Congress to send him legislation 'that places a market-placed cap on carbon pollution.' The new president has pledged to set annual targets that put the nation on course to an 80 percent reduction (from 1990 levels) in fossil fuel emissions by 2050. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she plans a floor vote on climate change before December, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said late last week that he would attempt to bring a global warming bill to the Senate floor by summer's end.

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. Barack Obama presses Capitol Hill on energy reforms. Budget will include $15bn a year for alternative fuels Barack Obama raised the development of a green economy to the top of America's agenda tonight, calling on Congress to pass a law cutting the carbon emissions that cause global warming.The president, in a rousing speech to both houses of Congress, tried to put to rest fears that the economic recession would force him to scale back ambitious plans for energy reforms.Instead, he made it clear that he sees a direct link between America's long-term economic interests and the development of clean energy, budgeting additional funds for research into wind and solar power.The president also pressed Congress to push ahead on a new law to cut greenhouse gas emissions, defying critics who say cap-and-trade measures could be a brake on economic recovery.'To truly transform our economy, protect our security and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make cl

United Auto Workers and Ford Motor on Monday announced a tentative plan that would allow the automaker to pay up to half of the $13.6 billion it owes to a retiree health care fund using company stock, the New York Times reports.

Radical plans to clean up pollution from the UK's coal plants have been drawn up by the government amid growing international pressure to curb emissions that cause climate change.The climate secretary, Ed Miliband, is understood to have asked for a thorough review of existing plans for up to eight new coal plants - described by leading US climate scientist James Hansen as 'factories of death'.Options under consideration include forcing power companies to fit carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipment - which buries the greenhouse gases - and a big increase in funding for more 'demonstration plants', which would be the first to fit the technology. Such a policy would be in line with Conservative proposals to impose CCS via a cap on emissions and to fund three or more plants to be fitted with the equipment.Miliband has asked the Treasury for billions of pounds for the new policy because energy companies have warned they cannot afford to fund the expensive, unproven technology themselves.

NAPIER University is today set to unveil plans to become a major international force in higher education.