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  • The White House Grounds Have a New Feathered Visitor!

    Posted by Tamara Dickinson on June 1, 2015 at 6:59 PM EDT

    If you’re planning on being near the White House sometime soon, use your eagle eye to spy a hawk!

    This week, I, along with others at and around the White House have been enjoying the company of what appears to be a young red-tailed hawk that has taken a liking to the White House grounds. Check out the great photo below that U.S. Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer DJ Patil was able to snap of our feathered friend:

    Red-tailed hawk at White House

    A red-tailed hawk on the White House grounds. (Photo by DJ Patil)

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  • West Wing Week: 05/29/15 or, “High Fives For Everybody!”

    Posted by Adam Garber on May 29, 2015 at 11:04 AM EDT

    This week, the President donned a yarmulke at Adas Israel Congregation, where he also sang and danced with some preschoolers; marked the first Memorial Day since our war in Afghanistan came to an end; hosted the NATO Secretary-General in the Oval Office; and answered your questions on climate change during a Twitter Q&A in Miami. That's May 22 to May 28th or, “High Fives for Everybody!”

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  • Follow Along: @POTUS Answers Your Questions on Climate Change

    Posted by Ken Meyer on May 28, 2015 at 12:31 PM EDT

    President Barack Obama participates in a Twitter Q&A at the National Hurricane Center

    President Barack Obama participates in a Twitter Q&A at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, May 28, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

    The President just wrapped up on Twitter -- but the conversation doesn't end here: 

    Share what you would fight to protect here -- then scroll down to see all of the President's answers to your #AskPOTUS questions.

    President Obama jumped on Twitter to answer a few of your questions about Climate Change. Yes, it’s really @POTUS! Follow the conversation in real-time right here: 

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  • Reasons We Need the Clean Water Rule

    Posted by Gina McCarthy & Jo-Ellen Darcy on May 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM EDT

    Ed. note: This blog is cross-posted from the Environmental Protection Agency. You can read the original post here. 

     

    Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army are finalizing a Clean Water Rule to protect the streams and wetlands we rely on for our health, our economy, and our way of life.

    As summer kicks off, many of us plan to be outside with our friends and families -- fishing, paddling, surfing, and swimming. And for the lakes and rivers we love to be clean, the streams and wetlands that feed them have to be clean, too. That’s just one of many reasons why this rule is so important. Here are several more:

    Clean water is vital to our health.

    One in three Americans get drinking water from streams that lacked clear protection from pollution without the Clean Water Rule. Finalizing the rule helps protect 117 million Americans’ health.

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  • 4 Years of Building Energy Efficiency Across America

    Posted by Brian Deese on May 27, 2015 at 10:01 AM EDT

    This morning, I had the pleasure of kicking off the Department of Energy’s Better Building Summit. It reminded me of the founding of Better Buildings four years ago. At that time, as we continued to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression and were faced with a paralyzed Congress, President Obama made clear to his economic team that we were to look for more creative and durable ways to contribute to an accelerated economic recovery. 

    The more work we did on this issue, the clearer it became that making buildings, plants and homes more energy efficient was a triple win — a win for jobs and economic growth; a win for businesses’ operating costs and bottom lines; and a win for our effort to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.

    Cutting energy waste was a common sense solution when President Obama launched the Better Buildings program in 2011 — with the goal of improving the energy use of our nation’s commercial, industrial, residential, and public buildings by 20 percent over 10 years — and it still is. In fact, four years later, we have made tremendous progress.

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  • West Wing Week: 05/22/2015 or, “@POTUS”

    Posted by Adam Garber on May 22, 2015 at 7:12 PM EDT

    This week was National Police Week, and the President honored fallen officers at the National Peace Officers Memorial Service; celebrated the reform efforts of police officers in Camden, New Jersey; signed the National Blue Alert Act to help protect police officers; and congratulated the graduates at the 134th Commencement of the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. POTUS also sent his first tweet. That's May 15 to May 21 or, "@POTUS!"

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