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In his first State of the Union address last Wednesday night, President Obama called on Congress to pass a jobs bill with an energy component, financial reform, and comprehensive energy and climate change legislation in that order.

In his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama called on Congress to pass a jobs bill with an energy component, financial reform, and comprehensive energy and climate change legislation in that order.

In his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama called on Congress to pass a jobs bill with an energy component, financial reform, and comprehensive energy and climate change legislation in that order.

Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar last week launched a coordinated strategy to address climate change science and resource management strategies. The move came as prospects to pass federal climate change legislation this year appeared to dim (see related story).

Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar Monday launched a coordinated strategy to address climate change science and resource management strategies.

Congress should address the role of “primary regulator” in its financial reform legislation, identifying the products and markets over which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should have primary jurisdiction and the ones over which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be the primary regulator, to avoid the kind of jurisdictional head-butting that the CFTC and FERC engaged in following the implosion of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC, a legal expert said Thursday.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress last Tuesday, President Obama heralded renewable fuels as the solution to the country’s nagging energy problems, while the Republicans in their response stressed the need for diversity in the U.S. energy mix, including stepped-up domestic oil and natural gas drilling.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Obama heralded renewable fuels as the solution to the country’s nagging energy problems, while the Republicans in their response stressed the need for diversity in the U.S. energy mix, including stepped-up domestic oil and natural gas drilling.

A municipal natural gas group has called on President-elect Obama to support amending Section 5 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to address a “fatal flaw” that prevents customers from collecting retroactive refunds when they have been overcharged by pipelines.