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Today’s Headlines

Bad news for Big Oil in the White House budget, which seeks to axe $36.5B in subsidies — but will Congress go along? (TNR’s The Vine) That $100m jobs bill, including infrastructure, that the White House is hoping for? It might look considerably smaller once the Senate acts, perhaps this week (Politico) Georgia political heavyweights … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:50 AM EST on February 2, 2010

Bad news for Big Oil in the White House budget, which seeks to axe $36.5B in subsidies — but will Congress go along? (TNR’s The Vine)
That $100m jobs bill, including infrastructure, that the White House is hoping for? It might look considerably smaller once the Senate acts, perhaps this week (Politico)
Georgia political heavyweights clash over the state’s lackluster high-speed rail showing (AJC Blog)
LaHood takes on the Washington Post’s edit board for its complaints about the lack of high-speed rail funding for the northeast corridor (DOT Blog)
Highway and transit contractors are deemed “winners” in the new presidential budget (WaPo)
An interview with Worldchanging editor and popular urbanist Alex Steffen (Grist)
California says “no thanks” to regulating electric-car charging stations (NYT Blogs)
Denver’s local editorial board calls for a postponement of sales tax increases to fund transit (D. Post)

Elana Schor

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