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By Dave Flessner Chattanooga Times Free Press April 29, 2015 SPRING CITY, Tenn. — To curb carbon emissions and global temperatures, a former EPA administrator under President George W. Bush said today that adding more reactors like the one TVA is building at its Watts Bar Nuclear Plant here are critical to America's future. [...]

My Central Jersey April 18, 2015 FAR HILLS – New Jersey Conservation Foundation has elected media executive Stephen W. Parker of Bernardsville to its Board of Trustees, and former Governors James Florio and Christine Todd Whitman as Honorary Trustees. [...]

By Michael Knigge DW January 28. 2015 Congressional Republicans are in tune with their constituents. A new Pew poll found that Republicans have a highly favorable view of the Department of Defense, the CIA and NASA. They are much less fond of certain other governmental bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [...]

Politico Magazine December 4, 2014 President Obama’s sixth year in office might be his greenest yet, with new Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce power plant emissions and ozone pollutants, plus what he called a “historic” climate agreement with China. Some even say these are the boldest environmental steps the United States has taken since the 1970 Clean Air Act. [...]

By Catharine A Kapura Commerce: The Business Of New Jersey November 6, 2014 "It is important for New Jersey to plan ahead for rising sea levels, increasingly frequent and severe storms, and the potential for drought and floods," says Goc. Whitman, a principal at The Whitman Strategy Group. [...]

By Dina Cappiello Associated Press June 23, 2014 Top environmental regulators for four Republican presidents told Congress on Wednesday what many Republican lawmakers won’t: Action is needed on global warming. [...]

By Jean Chemnick E&E News June 18, 2014 Four former Republican U.S. EPA administrators praised the agency's climate change rule for existing power plants today in a Senate hearing room packed with coal miners expressing fear that the proposal would strangle their industry. [...]

By Jason Plautz National Journal June 18, 2014 Cabinet members from four Republican administrations Wednesday made a plea for federal action to address climate change, citing new evidence that public opinion is shifting in favor of it. [...]

By Andrew Restuccia Politico June 18, 2014 Four Republican former EPA chiefs called on Congress on Wednesday to combat climate change, challenging GOP lawmakers’ hostility to measures that would rein in carbon pollution. [...]

By Michael A. Memoli LA Times January 28, 2014 WASHINGTON -- Republicans accused of waging a "war on women" attempted to send a message to the nation with the selection of Washington state Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top woman in GOP leadership and a mother of three, to deliver the party's response Tuesday night to President Obama's State of [...]

By Wendy Humphrey Princeton Packet December 11, 2013 West Windsor, N.J. – What could be a better way to learn about politics and government than by hearing from those who do it for a living? That was the premise for Leonard Winogora, Senior Instructor in the Social Sciences, as he developed the curriculum for his State and Local Politics (POL [...]

By Carol Gorga Williams Asbury Park Express November 21, 2013 EST LONG BRANCH — In 1963, when President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, women made 59 cents for every $1 men made for the same jobs. [...]