http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/administration-polar-bear-threatened-by-global-warming-but-arctic-drilling-can-continue/

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/17/kempthorne-beck/

Obama kept the Bush plan in place.

The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer terrorism suspects greater legal protections, government officials said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050804228.html?hpid=topnews

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and former Securities and Exchange Commission chief Arthur Levitt are among those being considered by congressional leaders to head a probe of the financial crisis, people familiar with the matter said.

The panel’s results supposedly will be used to reform the financial system. If the Carlyle Group’s Arthur Levittt gets the chair, count on private equity getting a free pass.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4NFHN80_Qpo&refer=home

Obama Administration Maintains Bush-Era Policy on Polar Bears

The Obama Administration has decided to keep a Bush-era policy on polar bears — declining to crack down on greenhouse-gas polluters on the grounds that their emissions are helping shrink the bears’ habitat on Arctic sea ice, officials announced today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/08/AR2009050802103.html?hpid=topnews