A power generation engineer walks beside solar panels, May 13, 2015. Source: AP/John Raoux Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2015.  Renewable energy production has increased dramatically under the Obama administration, with solar generation increasing twentyfold and wind generation increasing threefold since 2009 alone. But a new report from the Center for[Read More…]

Analysis This year’s gay marriage ruling was a milestone, but LGBT discrimination is still surprisingly legal. John Oliver explains why we need a federal anti-discrimination law.

U.S. President George H.W. Bush meets with Turkish President Turgut Özal prior to talks in Ankara on July 20, 1991. Source: AP Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2015.  As a NATO member and majority-Muslim, secular democracy, Turkey has often been held up as a model partner to the United States and[Read More…]

The Delicate Arch at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, is seen in December 2010. Source: AP/Julie Jacobson Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2015.  A new column released today by the Center for American Progress argues that congressional policymakers should better analyze the potential environmental and economic impacts of changing U.S.[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015.  With nearly every presidential candidate trooping through Iowa in the past week for their obligatory pilgrimage to the Iowa State Fair, the coverage has mainly focused on helicopter rides, fried food, and who can out-do each other with extreme immigration policies. But one issue has flown[Read More…]

Chaddick Institute at DePaul University tracks U.S. intercity bus trends A Greyhound bus makes a stop at Chicago’s Union Station to load and unload passengers. Intercity bus travel is expected to be at its highest level for the 2015 Labor Day holiday in at least a decade, find researchers from[Read More…]

Dr. Alan Shapiro, of the Children’s Health Fund in New York, gives an asthma breathing test to Ja’Shayna Davis in Gulfport, Mississippi, on September 13, 2005. Source: AP/Darron Cummings Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015.  One decade after the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama felt the catastrophic effects of Hurricane[Read More…]

A man waits to be processed at a Border Patrol detention center in Imperial Beach, California, in January 2012. Source: AP/Gregory Bul Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2015.  The topic of mass deportation of the nation’s 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants has been steadily gaining national attention as politicians and advocates receive[Read More…]

Water flows through a series of retention ponds near the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado, August 12, 2015. SOURCE: AP/Brennan Linsley Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015.  Amid growing public concern over abandoned hardrock mines and the management of resource extraction on America’s public lands, the Center for American Progress[Read More…]

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2015.  The fluids used for hydraulic fracturing in California oil wells contain dozens of hazardous chemicals linked to cancer, hormone disruption and reproductive system damage, according to a new report by EWG. In the analysis, entitled “California’s Toxic Fracking Fluids: The Chemical Recipe, EWG deconstructs drilling companies’[Read More…]