President Obama and President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon met today and discussed a wide range of multilateral and regional issues, including security, environmental protection and the economy.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Just two hours before the blast at Pemex headquarters, the company touted its security record at a conference titled "First Congress for Security, Health and Environmental Protection" in the city of Merida in eastern Mexico.

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Still, way back in 1979, it revised its objectives to reduce dependence on oil, and its current objectives include energy security, environmental protection, and economic growth.

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Lastly, the Wellness Trust would make prevention like national security and environmental policies: pervasive and persistent in its protection of our nation from purely preventable illness and death.

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In government, where its clients include the Environmental Protection Agency, Homeland Security, and Centers for Disease Control.

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These uses of markets to allocate health, education, public safety, national security, criminal justice, environmental protection, recreation, procreation, and other social goods were for the most part unheard-of 30 years ago.

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