Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013. Friends of the Earth Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber provided the following statement in support of the House Progressive Caucus’s release of the Back to Work Budget today: “If you listen to the budget debate in Washington too long, you almost start to believe that austerity is[Read More…]
Year: 2013
ExoMars: ESA and Roscosmos Set for Mars Mission
Signing partnership agreement for ExoMars EU–(ENEWSPF)–14 March 2013.ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on the ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018. Establishing whether life ever existed on Mars is one of the outstanding[Read More…]
EPA Announces Cities with the Most Energy Star Buildings in the US
Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, Atlanta rank in top five WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the most Energy Star certified buildings in 2012, highlighting how owners and managers of commercial buildings across the country are taking[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending March 9, 2013
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending March 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 332,000, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 342,000. The 4-week moving average was 346,750, a decrease of 2,750 from the previous week’s revised[Read More…]
New Results Indicate That New Particle is a Higgs Boson
Geneva–(ENEWSPF)–14 March 2013. At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they[Read More…]
Video – Duke’s Stanley Hauerwas: Pope Francis’ Election Signals Solidarity With the Poor
Stanley Hauerwas was my ethics teacher at Notre Dame. Never could remember my name. I was always "Mr. Kerpalinski" or something like that. I remember him well. Brilliant. I did my best to keep up in class. From Duke University: Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological[Read More…]
Make Your Voice Heard: Support Call for Congress to Strike Biotech Rider
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 14, 2013. A group of over one hundred food businesses and retailers, and family farm, consumer, health, environmental and civil liberties groups, lead by Center for Food Safety and including Beyond Pesticides, have united to support an amendment by Senator John Tester (D-MT) (D-MT) to strike a dangerous[Read More…]
Department of Defense News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams from the Pentagon, March 13, 2013
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 13, 2013. COMMANDER BILL SPEAKS: Good morning here in Pentagon briefing room, and good evening in Kandahar, Afghanistan. I’d like to welcome Major General Robert “Abe” Abrams, the commanding general Regional Command South and commanding general U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division to the Pentagon briefing room. Major General[Read More…]
How Will Pope Francis Wear the Shoes of the Fisherman?
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, S.J., in 2008. (Wikipedia) Updated at 11:49 a.m. to reflect that Pope Francis is not the first non-European pope ever, as the original commentary erroneously stated. How will Pope Francis wear the Shoes of the Fisherman? Will the example of this pope, a friend of the poorest[Read More…]
Remarks by Secretary of State Kerry With Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2013. SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everyone. I want to offer a very warm welcome to Prime Minister Zeidan of Libya. This is the first visit to Washington of the Prime Minister as prime minister, but it’s an historic visit, and the reason is very simple: He represents[Read More…]
