Lawmakers Reject Expanding Offshore Drilling, Keystone XL Approval and Clean Air Rollbacks  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2012 – Reason prevailed today as the Senate rejected three major anti-environmental amendments. Lawmakers defeated efforts to expand offshore oil drilling, roll back Clean Air Act protections on pollution from boilers, and force approval of the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2012 – The General Executive Board of LIUNA – the Laborers International Union of North America – has endorsed Barack Obama for a second term as President. The endorsement comes after a unanimous vote of the union’s board on Wednesday. “President Obama has earned a second term[Read More…]

Pitssburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2012.  Statement by United Steel Workers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard: “This is International Women’s Day, and four days from now is the centennial of the Bread and Roses victory by women woolen mill workers in Lawrence, Mass. “The triumph in Lawrence established a credo for[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2012.  SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina yesterday issued the following statement regarding the Univision News/ABC/Latino Decisions and Fox News Latino polls: “If Mitt Romney is reveling in Super Tuesday results, he should stop. A new Fox News Latino poll found only 14 percent of Latino voters would vote for[Read More…]

NRDC: “New initiatives will expand the benefits to our wallets, to our economy and our environment.”  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2012 – President Obama’s proposals to encourage production of more efficient vehicles, announced today, will help move America down the right road toward breaking the oil industry’s monopoly on our transportation dollars,[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 8 , 2012.  The G8 moving to Camp David represents a major victory for the people of Chicago. The leaders of the 1% are moving because of the overwhelming resistance to the NATO/G8 war and poverty agenda in Chicago. Our city is filled with tens of thousands of people[Read More…]

Commentary By Gary Kopycinski Updated March 9, 2012, 7:45 p.m. After I published this, I was told by several friends on Facebook that Invisible Children has issues. And, boy, do they ever. As Cait Phipps, a friend and college student put it, “It’s rich white kids paying other rich white[Read More…]

I am retracting this commentary following revelations that Invisible Children is not a worthy charity.   See this lengthy blog post for more information.   My apologies!  It takes less than 30 minutes to watch this amazing and eye-opening video. KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children[Read More…]

NRDC: “There are no quick fixes”  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2012 –- With a presidential press conference set for this afternoon, can a new public debate over rising gas prices be far behind? The following is a statement from Franz Matzner, associate director of Government Affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council:[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  Statement from Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance Vice President Joe Biden, on a two-day visit to Mexico and Central America, said that while the legalization debate is worth discussing, there is no possibility that the Obama Administration will change its policy. Biden’s[Read More…]