Day: March 27, 2012

State Department Briefing by Victoria Nuland, March 27, 2012

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012. Index for Today’s Briefing SYRIA Kofi Annan Proposal/ Friends of the Syrian People Meeting Syrian Regime Attacks on Place of Worship ARGENTINA GSP Suspension IRAQ Arab Summit MALI Contacts/ Status of U.S. Assistance SUDAN/SOUTH SUDAN Southern Kordofan Fighting/ Summit in Juba TRANSCRIPT: 1:02 p.m. EDT MS.[Read More…]

Representatives Schakowsky, Markey: Now Is Time to Close Loophole That Allows Toxic Chemicals in Cosmetics

Lawmakers introduced Safe Cosmetics Act to protect consumers from harmful ingredients in personal care products, gives FDA ability to order recalls of dangerous products WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012.  Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-authors of H.R. 2359, the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, released the following[Read More…]

Jackson Supports Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget

Urges Lawmakers & Public To Support “Budget For All” Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012.  Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-IL-2) today strongly endorsed the newly released Congressional Progressive Caucus’s (CPC) “Budget for All,” calling it “the right way forward for working families and the most innovative proposal to put the country[Read More…]

U of Toronto Discovery of New Catalyst Promises Cheaper, Greener Drugs

TORONTO, ON–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012.  A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally-friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are currently in wide use by the drug, fragrance and food industry. “It is always important to strive to make industrial[Read More…]

SEIU: CPC Budget – A Budget for the 99%

WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012.  After the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) released “A Budget for All,” its FY13 budget proposal, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: “This budget proposal shows that members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are truly champions for[Read More…]

U.S. Coast Survey’s Surveyors Were Pivotal in the Civil War Battle for New Orleans

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012. Plan of Fort Jackson, 1862 Gerdes and his men surveyed and mapped the flotilla’s successful mortar bombardment of Fort Jackson. Download here. (Credit: NOAA Coast Survey sketch, from the Coast Survey historical collection) As the Civil War battle to control the lower Mississippi River raged 150 years[Read More…]

7 Ways the Affordable Care Act Helps Latinos

What They Have at Stake as the Supreme Court Debates the Law Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012.  As the Supreme Court holds hearings on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this week, it is worth noting the ways Obamacare is improving the lives of Latinos. Given that Latinos are more[Read More…]

EPA Proposes First Carbon Pollution Standard for Future Power Plants

Achievable standard is in line with investments already being made and will inform the building of new plants moving forward  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2012.  Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants.[Read More…]

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