January 30, 2008

Earlybird Roundup: FutureGen, Bush Library, Mukasey Hearing

Washington. The Energy Department could drop its support for FutureGen, a proposed coal-fired power plant using cutting-edge environmental technologies.

Administration. Methodists opposed to building a George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, have launched a last-ditch effort to block its construction.

Congress. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, refused to classify waterboarding as torture in a letter he sent the committee yesterday.

Iraq. Reductions in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq may not continue beyond this summer, as previously thought.

World. Jendayi Frazer, a U.S. envoy and diplomat in Africa, called recent violence in Kenya "clear ethnic cleansing" and said no party has done enough to stop the conflict.

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