GM Gets To Dump Its Polluted Sites

ParticleGirl writes with this excerpt from the Detroit Free Press: "GM's unusual, government-engineered bankruptcy allowed the Detroit automaker to emerge as a new company — and to shed billions in liabilities, including claims that governments had against GM for polluting. Environmental liabilities estimated at $530 million were left with the old GM, which has only $1.2 billion to wind down. Administrative fees and other claims will soak up that money, and state and local officials told the Free Press they fear the cleanups will be shortchanged. ... The New York Attorney General's Office, seeking to protect environmental claims for cleanup at Massena and other sites, argued that federal and state regulatory requirements should not be eliminated by a bankruptcy sale. ... But [US Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber] ruled otherwise."

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Perhaps, but another reason

[tkrotchko]

U.S. Presidents are routinely called by their full name, or at least their first & last plus initials

  George W Bush (an initial, but still)
  Dwight D Eisenhower (another initial)
  George Herbert Walker Bush
  William Jefferson Clinton
  Richard Milhouse Nixon

It's neither common nor uncommon to call presidents by their full name. I think you're just being sensitive, really.

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[cdrguru]

Maybe you didn't get the memo, but our current President's full name is indeed Barak Hussein Obama. You can try to deny it, but them's the facts.

So I don't understand any childish name calling. Just stating the full name of the President. Sure, lots of people would like to pretend that isn't his middle name. Sorry, but it is true.