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		<title>EDF, Constellation agree to conditions for joint venture that could lead to new reactor in Md.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Witte</dc:creator>
		
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Constellation, EDF agree on nuclear venture terms

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Constellation Energy Group and France&#8217;s EDF have agreed with conditions set by Maryland regulators to move forward with a $4.5 billion joint nuclear venture.
Constellation announced Monday it had received approval from its board and that the Baltimore-based company is &#8220;now moving to close the transaction as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NRC says next-generation reactor being designed by Westinghouse doesn&#8217;t pass safety test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission raised safety concerns Thursday with the design of a proposed next-generation reactor to be built by Westinghouse Electric Co., saying a key part of the reactor may not withstand a tornado, earthquake or even high winds.

The NRC staff directed Westinghouse to make changes in the reactor design so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amid opposition from banks and businesses, House panel begins push on financial overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A key House panel moved to tighten rules on previously unregulated financial instruments Wednesday, a long-awaited step toward governing the obscure and complex transactions at the heart of the troubles that befell some of Wall Street&#8217;s most well-known financial houses.

The House Financial Services Committee this week was poised to adopt a proposal close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama steps up push for financial reforms, urges Congress to create consumer protection agency</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama fought to keep his proposed banking overhaul on track Friday, casting the political struggle ahead as one between big financial interests and average Americans victimized by complex or unscrupulous financial transactions.

The president illustrated his call for a consumer finance agency by showcasing five unwitting borrowers and bank customers whose troubles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Power &amp; Light agrees to $25 million penalty for 2008 blackout, agrees to enhancements</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MIAMI — The Florida Power &#038; Light Company must pay a $25 million penalty for a massive outage that left hundreds of thousands of customers without power last year, according to an agreement announced Thursday.

Under the agreement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, FPL must pay $10 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Congress probes ratings agencies, allegations by 2nd former Moody&#8217;s employee come to light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcy Gordon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A former employee of Moody&#8217;s Investors Service warned federal regulators in March about deficiencies in the credit rating agency&#8217;s monitoring of municipal bonds after being rebuffed by Moody&#8217;s executives, a document shows.

Scott McCleskey, who was a senior vice president for compliance at Moody&#8217;s until he left a year ago, wrote a letter to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah board won&#8217;t place moratorium on disposal of depleted uranium in state</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brock Vergakis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Utah&#8217;s Radiation Control Board Tuesday refused to block the disposal of depleted uranium in the state, clearing the way for shipments next month of the low-level radioactive waste.

The board&#8217;s 8-3 decision Tuesday removes any obstacles to EnergySolutions Inc.&#8217;s plans to dispose of depleted uranium waste from the Savannah River, a former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head of major exchange worries about SEC, CFTC &#8220;harmonizing&#8221; regulations, oversight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcy Gordon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Two agencies with oversight of the financial markets on Wednesday started coordinating their rules to eliminate differences involving similar types of investments, while the head of a major U.S. exchange said those efforts could do &#8220;more harm than good.&#8221;

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the government&#8217;s primary markets watchdog, and the Commodity Futures Trading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AstraZeneca says Brilinta anti-clotting drug reduces chance of dying better than Plavix</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA, Spain — A new drug to prevent blood clots in heart patients reduced their chances of dying by more than 20 percent compared with the standard treatment, new research says.

Researchers followed 18,624 patients worldwide from 2006 to 2008. About half the patients were taking clopidogrel, also known as Plavix, while the other half were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study shows experimental drug cuts stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA, Spain — An experimental drug reduces the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats by nearly four times, compared with the popular drug warfarin — but possibly at a cost, according to new research released Sunday.

Patients taking the new drug dabigatran etexilate, made by German pharmaceutical Boehringer Ingelheim, also were slightly more likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New anti-clotting drug reduces heart patients&#8217; chances of dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA, Spain — A new drug to prevent blood clots in heart patients reduced their chances of dying by more than 20 percent compared to the standard treatment, new research says.

Researchers followed 18,624 patients worldwide from 2006 to 2008. About half the patients were taking clopidogrel, also known as Plavix, while the other half were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facing billions in losses, postal officials consider closing or consolidating post offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randolph E. Schmid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A pillar of U.S. communities since the nation&#8217;s founding, the post office is facing the prospect of closings or consolidation of services at hundreds of locations amid a sharp decline in business due to e-mail.

The Postal Service may register a loss of nearly $7 billion this fiscal year in spite of a 2-cent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe fast-tracking swine flu vaccine _ raising concerns among some experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety and proper doses.

The European Medicines Agency, the EU&#8217;s top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venezuelan official says 240 radio stations to have licenses revoked</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/venezuelan-official-says-240-radio-stations-to-have-licenses-revoked-99047/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/venezuelan-official-says-240-radio-stations-to-have-licenses-revoked-99047/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabiola Sanchez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CARACAS, Venezuela — The head of Venezuela&#8217;s telecommunications regulatory agency said Friday that 240 radio stations will have their licenses revoked for failing to update their registrations with the government.

A total of 86 AM radio stations and 154 FM stations have failed to turn in required documents, which will lead to the &#8220;recovery of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1,000 transportation safety recommendations await action for lack of money, will or technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Sniffen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Has the National Transportation Safety Board become the government&#8217;s &#8220;I-told-you-so&#8221; agency?

After this week&#8217;s deadly subway collision in Washington, board member Debbie Hersman pointed to safety recommendations the NTSB made years earlier to replace older subway cars, which might have saved lives — if they had been followed.
A commuter airliner crash near Buffalo, N.Y., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats at odds with industry on proposed agency to police consumer financial market</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Flaherty</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Democrats are pressing the Obama administration to find a way out of the foreclosure crisis as they moved ahead with plans to create a government agency that would police the market for risky or deceptive mortgages.

The agenda has the financial industry nervous that it will find itself buried in new regulations. But under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC, CFTC chiefs agree on derivatives oversight as Congress works to overhaul financial rules</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sec-cftc-chiefs-agree-on-derivatives-oversight-as-congress-works-to-overhaul-financial-rules-89844/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sec-cftc-chiefs-agree-on-derivatives-oversight-as-congress-works-to-overhaul-financial-rules-89844/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The heads of two federal agencies with financial oversight responsibilities have told Congress that their jurisdiction can be split over the instruments blamed for hastening the global economic crisis.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, the government&#8217;s primary markets watchdog, and the smaller Commodity Futures Trading Commission — which oversees the oversees the trading of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama sets course for Wall Street giants, Main Street folks with new &#8216;rules of the road&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Crutsinger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — From simple home loans to Wall Street&#8217;s most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new &#8220;rules of the road&#8221; for the nation&#8217;s battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama.

Aimed at preventing a repeat of the worst economic crisis in seven decades, the changes would begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government financial regulation shows historical swings between tightening and easing</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/government-financial-regulation-shows-historical-swings-between-tightening-and-easing-84984/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/government-financial-regulation-shows-historical-swings-between-tightening-and-easing-84984/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Raum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The pendulum of government regulation is swinging in a new direction.

The government spent most of the past three decades dismantling rules put in place to fix the bad practices that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Barack Obama&#8217;s financial overhaul plan marks a clear step back toward greater regulation.
The country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House adviser Romer, GOP leader Boehner, part company on aspects of new financial rules</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/white-house-adviser-romer-gop-leader-boehner-part-company-on-aspects-of-new-financial-rules-84132/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — White House adviser Christina Romer said Wednesday the Obama administration&#8217;s proposal to overhaul the financial regulatory system should be accepted by Congress because &#8220;the status quo is not an option.&#8221;

At the same time, the leading House Republican Leader John Boehner said that while the GOP agrees on many aspects of financial regulatory change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama to send Congress more work _ a sweeping fix of the nation&#8217;s financial regulations</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-to-send-congress-more-work-_-a-sweeping-fix-of-the-nations-financial-regulations-83814/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A new consumer protection agency highlights a financial system overhaul President Barack Obama plans to unveil Wednesday in effort to avert future economic crises like the one still wreaking havoc at home and around the globe.

Obama&#8217;s sweeping change of business regulation also embraces new powers for the Federal Reserve and new rules that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savings for dismantling nuclear plants are falling short, raising future risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Bass</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VERNON, Vt. — The companies that own almost half the nation&#8217;s nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The shortfalls are caused not by fluctuating appetites for nuclear power but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wants new agency to protect consumers in their financial transactions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Setting up a certain fight with big business, President Barack Obama is about to recommend creation of a regulatory agency to protect consumers in their credit, savings and other banking transactions.

The new agency and a newly empowered Federal Reserve will be two of the central elements of a broad overhaul of the financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP IMPACT: Savings for dismantling nuclear plants are falling short, raising future risks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank Bass</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VERNON, Vt. — The companies that own almost half the nation&#8217;s nuclear reactors are not setting aside enough money to dismantle them, and many may sit idle for decades and pose safety and security risks as a result, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The shortfalls are caused not by fluctuating appetites for nuclear power but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official: Obama wants new agency to protect consumers in their financial transactions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Kuhnhenn</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An Obama administration official says the Treasury will propose the creation of a regulatory agency to protect consumers in their credit, savings and other banking transactions.

The new agency is one of the central elements of President Barack Obama&#8217;s overhaul of the financial regulatory system. The president is set to announce his broad plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Chair says regulatory agency considering changes to CEO pay disclosure rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Beck</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering changing a formula that critics say often allows public companies to low-ball in regulatory filings just how much top executives are paid.

At issue is how companies report in a summary compensation table found in their annual proxy statements the totals for stock options and stock [...]]]></description>
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