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New Gas Drilling Rules, More Staff for Pennsylvania’s Environmental Agency
As natural gas production has increased across the country, most states have failed to keep pace in their oversight of the industry. But Pennsylvania has started to buck this trend, beefing up its enforcement staff and moving to put new regulations in place.
TARP Watchdog Launches Audit of Bailout Contracts
The Treasury Department has spent more than $159 million paying financial companies and legal firms to help handle the bailout. Now the TARP's inspector general is looking into whether the government is getting its money's worth.
Agencies Open to the Public – Some Not So Much
Under a directive from the White House's Office of Management and Budget, federal departments and agencies were to have created open-government Web pages by last Saturday. A few stragglers didn't make it.
Paulson Book: Behind the Scenes, GE’s Top Exec Confided Credit Woes
In private conversations that alarmed then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Immelt laid out a different picture of GE’s credit situation, according to Paulson’s new book about the crisis
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