Regulation of Greenhouse Gases Sets Stage for Clash: With the federal government set to regulate greenhouse gases from factories and power plants for the first time, the Obama administration and the new Congress are headed for a clash that carries substantial risks for both sides. The New York Times reports that if the administration moves too fast, Congress could handcuff the Environmental Protection Agency and set back the effort to slow climate change for years.
The End of FEMA Trailers? Five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is taking steps to do away with the 221 FEMA trailers in the city, which have become a symbol of the prolonged rebuilding from Katrina. Citing them as blight, city officials have told FEMA trailer residents to be out of them by the start of 2011 or face heavy fines, The Associated Press reports.
Paulson Feels Housing Pain: Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson knows better than most how the economic downturn battered housing prices. Paulson sold his three-bedroom home in Washington last week for close to a third less than his initial asking price and more than $1 million below what he paid for it more than four years ago, Reuters reports.
Sorry Billy: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declined to pardon Old West outlaw Billy the Kid, who was shot dead in 1881 after escaping jail where he was awaiting hanging for the killing of a sheriff. The Wall Street Journal reports that the prospect of a pardon for the man known as "Mr. The Kid" in the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures grabbed international headlines.
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