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Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-export-import-banks-annual-conference Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 11, 2010 Remarks by the President at the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. 11:30 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. And thank you, John, for that generous introduction. Congratulations to you and Fabienne and Luis for the recognition your companies so richly deserve. And thank you to the Chairman of the Export-Import Bank, Fred Hochberg, for having me here today, and for all the important work the...

The world’s largest private sector coal business, the Peabody Energy Company (PEC) has filed a mammoth 240-page “Petition for Reconsideration,” a full-blown legal challenge against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The petition must be answered and covers the entire body of leaked emails from ‘Climategate’ as well as those other ‘gate’ revelations including the frauds allegedly perpetrated under such sub-headings as ‘Himalayan Glaciers,’ ‘African Agricultural Production,’ ‘Amazon Rain Forests,’ ‘Melting Mountain Ice,’ ‘Netherlands Below Sea Level’ as well as those much-publicized abuses of the peer-review literature and so called ‘gray literature.’ These powerful litigants also draw attention to the proven...

A minister from Kosovo and four associates were injured in a car explosion late today, police said. The explosion injuring Ethem Ceku, the environment and spatial planning minister in Kosovo’s government, and four others, occurred shortly after 10pm local time (9pm GMT) as their vehicle started to move, Refki Morina, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press. The blast took place following a basketball game which the minister and his associates had attended in the city of Pec, 50 miles west of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. All five were injured and were immediately transported to the hospital. Their condition...

"PA" NEWS Sat 21 Feb 2004 11:05pm (UK) Kosovo Minister and Four Others Injured in Blast A minister from Kosovo and four associates were injured in a car explosion late today, police said. The explosion injuring Ethem Ceku, the environment and spatial planning minister in Kosovo’s government, and four others, occurred shortly after 10pm local time (9pm GMT) as their vehicle started to move, Refki Morina, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press. The blast took place following a basketball game which the minister and his associates had attended in the city of Pec, 50 miles west of Pristina, the...