Obama Faces High Expectations, High Hurdles In Second Term

January 17, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Obama Faces High Expectations, High Hurdles In Second Term On the night of his re-election, President Barack Obama described grand ambitions for his second term, including a desire to bequeath to future generations a nation not only free of debt and unencumbered by inequality, but also one "that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet." Continue reading... Feds Approve Mine Safety Rules Report Reveals Hundreds Of American Levees And Flood Control Systems Are At Risk Of Failing Former Mine Boss Sentenced To Jail For Upper Big Branch Disaster Chantal Beyer, South African Woman, Attacked By Rhino While Posing With Husband For A Picture Coolest Dog Names Of 2012: Top 10 Trendiest Puppy Monikers Of The Year EPA's Water Contamination Investigation Halted In Texas After Range Resources Protest High Mercury Fish: How To Eat Safe, Sustainable Seafood Levee Repairs Needed Across America, Including Washington, D.C., Dallas And More, Study Says EPA's Water Contamination Investigation Halted In Texas After Range Resources Protest Kaitlin Anne Kenney, Colorado Woman, Missing Near The Grand Canyon High Mercury Fish: How To Eat Safe, Sustainable Seafood PETER LEHNER 3 Steps the FDA Can Take in 2013 to Show It Is Protecting Americans From Harm For as welcome as the new food safety programs are, the FDA is still plagued with problems. It moves at a glacial pace in the face of pressing health hazards, like its three-decade-long refusal to act on its own findings that the use of antibiotics in livestock feed threatens human health. Continue reading... BILL CHAMEIDES Climate Change and Ratsnakes In the kind of sink-or-swim situation that climate change presents for species, we often focus on the losers. Today we look at an unlikely winner. Continue reading... JAKE SCHMIDT Black Carbon More Powerful Contributor to Climate Change Than Previously Thought: New Study For the past two decades, NRDC's Dump Dirty Diesels Campaign has been working in the U.S. and internationally to solve the problem of dirty diesel exhaust. Continue reading... LYNN SCARLETT A Deal Is a Deal This tale might appear to be a poster story for economy versus environment and business versus bureaucrats. Why terminate a permit for a business that generated jobs -- and food? Continue reading... REP. FREDERICA WILSON Disaster Recovery: We're All in It Together Flooded subway stations in New York City. Earthquake damage in the Nation's Capital. The great city of New Orleans under water. These scenes, once seemingly out of science fiction, are all too real today. This is why I am introducing the Homeowners' Defense Act of 2013 in Congress. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.