The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will pay a $3.5 million fine after reaching a settlement with the FAA over aircraft rescue and firefighting violations.

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President Obama's chief climate adviser, Heather Zichal, said on April 8 that the administration will implement new greenhouse emission limits for power plants in the "not-too-distant future."

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Lawmakers return to Washington from a recess for the first time this year without a fiscal crisis bearing down on them. The three-month period starting this week gives lawmakers the best chance to move landmark legislation on guns and immigration before the looming financial fights return.

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In 1990, the FAA developed a complicated cost-benefit methodology for the tower program that relies on accident data from 1983 to 1986 to determine how many accidents would be averted and lives saved if an airport had controllers working onsite. As the years have passed, the FAA has updated some of the economic assumptions used in the methodology. The safety data, however, has never been updated.

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Employers in the United States added just 88,000 jobs in March, a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring.

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The FAA had been set to close 149 contract ATC towers on Sunday of this week due to sequestration. That was to be the first of three waves of funding cutoffs that were to continue through early May.

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The U.S. Department of the Interior has released new rules that strengthen workplace safety measures for offshore energy drilling. Meanwhile, in California, regulators have provided little oversight of the state's hydraulic fracturing drilling, but that looks set to change.

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President Barack Obama makes the case for Democrats to convince the American public that acting on climate change and environmental issues does not mean doing damage to the economy.

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When President Obama releases his budget next week, it may include what some tout as an elegant solution to the nation's fiscal problems, a way of measuring price changes known as "chained CPI."

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Privacy concerns have already delayed the selection of six test sites that will facilitate unmanned aerial vehicle integration, but key questions still remain.

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