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Clean Water, Energy Priorities
in Environmental Budget Request (2006-02-06).
President Bush’s budget for the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) reflects his twin commitments to the War on
Terror and development of more efficient energy
technologies. The EPA released a summary of 2007 budget
priorities February 6. The proposals would devote $184
million to security activities within the realm of the
environmental agency, such as protection of drinking
water supplies from terrorist attack, and environmental
decontamination. In the pursuit of more efficient energy
technologies, the administration proposed to boost
diesel fuel emissions reductions efforts by $50 million
with activities to support cleaner fuels and to replace
older diesel equipment with technologies that emit less
pollutants.
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Ben Bernanke Takes Oath as
Chairman of Federal Reserve Board (2006-02-06).
Ben Bernanke was sworn in as 14th chairman of the
Federal Reserve February 6 at a ceremony attended by
President Bush. In remarks to the assembly at the
Federal Reserve, Bush congratulated the new chairman and
lauded his credentials. He said that economists and
leaders across the political spectrum “praised [Bernanke]
for his unsurpassed academic credentials, broad policy
experience and a reputation for consensus-building.”
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