NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. By: Sharda Sekaran The multi-decade, trillion dollar waste that we call the drug war has become increasingly unpopular, with everyone from Nobel Prize-winning economists to leaders from the religious and civil rights communities calling for its end. Those who defend arresting, incarcerating and militarizing our way[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  Today’s vote in Seattle will go down in history as a milestone in the struggle to raise wages and ensure fair pay for all workers. It is proof that when working people organize and make their voices heard, we all benefit. While Republicans in Congress fail[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. After the Seattle City Council voted to lift the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 per hour, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: “Like working Americans across the country, the 2.1 million members of SEIU are tremendously[Read More…]

More Ambitious Emission Reductions Needed to Ward Off Warming Crisis WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  New rules unveiled today by President Barack Obama don’t do enough to cut planet-warming pollution from America’s power plants. Using the Clean Air Act, the president aims to reduce existing power plant emissions 30 percent below 2005[Read More…]

This morning EPA announced what could be the most effective action to curb climate pollution in our history. Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  This morning EPA announced a draft plan to address climate change through standards to protect public health by limiting carbon pollution from existing power plants. These protections are[Read More…]

“Failure to tackle the problem is no longer an option,” says Audubon CEO David Yarnold New York–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. Today U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivered remarks on steps the EPA is taking to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants, the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in[Read More…]

Cap-and-trade, offsets allow power plants to pay to pollute Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. Statement from Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter and Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program Director Janet Redman “On the heels of two telling reports from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) and[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  The Environmental Protection Agency released rules, today, to reduce carbon dioxide pollution from existing power plants under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Electric power plants produce approximately 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year — amounting to almost 40 percent of the United[Read More…]

A Historic Step to Combat Climate Change WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014 – The Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled the centerpiece of President Obama’s climate action plan. The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The EPA’s proposal to limit carbon pollution from power plants[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014.  Today, President Barack Obama announced his intention to use executive authority to set a national limit on carbon pollution from coal plants. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will release the carbon pollution standards for existing power plants on Monday. The Chief Justice John Roberts Supreme[Read More…]