Bank on Students Emergency Refinancing Act? Would Allow Borrowers to Refinance Existing Student Loans at Today’s Rates WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today introducing the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, which would[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Nobel Prize Economists Call for New Approach to Failed Drug War in New London School of Economics IDEAS Report
LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–6 May 2014. Five Nobel Prize economists call for an end to the ‘war on drugs’ in a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Ending the Drug Wars: Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy outlines the enormous negative[Read More…]
Sierra Club statement on the release of the National Climate Assessment
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. Today, a national committee of experts in agriculture, climate science, commerce, and disaster relief released its National Climate Assessment (NCA). The report is the nation’s foremost comprehensive, peer-reviewed analysis of the impacts of climate disruption, showing us the effects of climate change in individual states and[Read More…]
Ethics Declines to Appoint Special Subcommittee to Look Into Rep. Gutierrez Contract Matter
No further review recommended on issues related to lobbying, campaign activities and the Congressman’s memoir. Single recommendation from OCE relates to whether approved contract was permissible under House rules. Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 5, 2014. Today, as its rules require, the House Committee on Ethics released the Office of Congressional Ethics’ (OCE)[Read More…]
BP Spill Bird Death Toll Estimates: Audubon Comments on New Study
Reacting to New Peer-Reviewed Study, Audubon Says Total Deaths Likely in Seven Figures New York–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. A new peer-reviewed study estimates 600,000-800,000 coastal waterbirds were killed in the first three months of the 2010 BP oil disaster, The New York Times reports today (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/still-counting-gulf-spills-dead-birds.html?ref=science). The study estimates only a[Read More…]
Earthjustice Statement on the Release of the Third National Climate Assessment
The third National Climate Assessment released today highlights the effects of climate change across our nation, and concludes that we are not prepared for the significant risks posed by our rapidly changing climate Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. The third National Climate Assessment released today highlights the effects of climate change[Read More…]
Center for American Progress on the National Climate Assessment
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. Today, the White House released the Third National Climate Assessment, the most comprehensive peer-reviewed analysis of how climate change impacts regions and sectors across the United States. Carol M. Browner, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, released the following statement: Once again the[Read More…]
BEE Protective! Beyond Pesticides Installs Honey Bee Hive at DC Headquarters
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. With pollinator week a little over a month away, Beyond Pesticides is thrilled to announce that it’s amplifying its own footprint in the BEE Protective campaign by installing an urban honey bee hive at its national headquarters in southeast Washington, D.C.! Beyond Pesticides and our BEE[Read More…]
Alabama to Pay $580,000 in Legal Bills Because of Unconstitutional Anti-Immigrant Laws
Settlement Signed in Suit over Law That Threatened to Leave Immigrants Homeless MONTGOMERY, Ala.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. Alabama has agreed to pay $230,000 in legal bills incurred by civil rights groups that sued the state over a provision of its anti-immigrant law that threatened to push people out of their homes.[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Honors Illinois Firefighters During Annual State Capitol Ceremony
Governor Honors Two Fallen Firefighters and 44 Others for Life-Saving Acts of Bravery SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today was joined by State Fire Marshal Larry Matkaitis and firefighters from across the state to honor Illinois’ fallen firefighters and those who performed life-saving acts of bravery this year. The[Read More…]
