President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden welcome 97-year-old Vivian Bailey and her guests, Principal Troy Todd and teacher Melissa Peyton, to the Oval Office, May 26, 2015. Ms. Bailey has been raising money for more than a dozen years so students of Running Brook Elementary school in Columbia, Maryland, can take field trips. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Reasons We Need the Clean Water Rule
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. Find out exactly why this rule is so important.
Memorial Day 2015: Honoring Our Soldiers Who Paid the Ultimate Sacrifice
This Memorial Day, President Obama traveled to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia to pay solemn tribute to the men and women of our armed forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
The First Lady Celebrates the 2015 Graduates of Oberlin College
On Monday, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the class of 2015 at Oberlin College in Ohio. Oberlin was the first college in America to adopt a policy to admit African American students, as well as the first co-ed school to grant bachelor’s degrees to women — and this year marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s own commencement address at Oberlin College.
Tell Us: What’s Your Stake in Clean Water?
One in three Americans get their drinking water from areas that don’t have clear pollution protection.
But this week, after hundreds of meetings and reviewing more than 1 million comments from Americans, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers are taking steps to fix the problem. Together, they’re releasing a Clean Water Rule that strengthens and expands protections for bodies of water that more than a third of Americans rely on for their drinking water.
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