Front Groups & Extensive Spending Aimed at Curbing California’s Clean Energy Action SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014 – Major oil companies are propping up at least eight front groups in a last-ditch campaign to subvert California’s climate action law requiring them to pay for their carbon pollution beginning in January 2015,[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2014.  A new analysis released today by the Center for American Progress examines how massive political spending by the Koch brothers and other special interests in yesterday’s election will guide an aggressive fossil-fuel and anti-environment agenda in the next Congress. Although media coverage has largely focused[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2014.  The second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, which took the lives of 117 people and caused billions of dollars in property damage and lost economic output, has renewed the focus on the nation’s aging infrastructure and the effects that more and more powerful storms caused by[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.   A new issue brief released today by the Center for American Progress explores the current role of women-of-color voters, a bloc that turned out in record numbers in the 2008 presidential election. The brief looks at the national demographic trends turning this emerging voting[Read More…]

In same period at least a million mothers died in childbirth due to lack of basic health services Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  Rising inequality could set the fight against poverty back by decades (1), Oxfam warned today as it published a new report showing that the number of billionaires worldwide has[Read More…]

Historic Bipartisan Majority in Favor of Reforming U.S. Drug Laws and Letting States Set Their Own Marijuana Policies; Ideologically Diverse Representatives – From Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – Named 2013-14 “Champions of Reform” Washington, D.C.[Read More…]

Common Cause study looks at 10 swing states’ record in implementing recommendations of Presidential Commission on Election Administration WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2014. The problems behind the long lines, clerical errors and misallocated resources that bedeviled the 2012 election remain unaddressed in many states as the 2014 campaign enters its final[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 28, 2014. By: Stephen Gutwillig It may be an off-year election, but it’s a big one for drug policy reform. In seven weeks, voters across the country will have a chance to accelerate the unprecedented momentum to legalize marijuana and end the wider drug war. In fact, there[Read More…]

Poor Regulation at Chinese Ports Allows One Container Ship to Pollute as Much as 500,000 Trucks NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2014 – China’s largely unregulated ports and shipping system generate significant air pollution that imposes a huge health and environmental burden and contributes to the country’s over 1 million pollution-related deaths[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 28, 2014.  The Common Core State Standards are an important tool for closing achievement gaps for girls and women—particularly girls and women of color. The Common Core can open the door to high-paying jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, fields, a new fact sheet[Read More…]