(David J. Ringer) A Laughing Gull oiled during the Deepwater Horizon disaster New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012.  Barrels of bile were spilled in weeks leading up to the Florida primary. But that’s just a clean-up on aisle three compared to the epic five million barrels of crude oil that paralyzed the[Read More…]

Washington, D.C–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2012.  This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, Fisher v. The University of Texas, challenging the future of race-conscious admissions at our country’s colleges and universities. If the Court bars the use of race in admissions decisions, years of hard work by civil rights[Read More…]

VIRGINIA—(ENEWSPF)—February 24, 2012.  I am a third year studying Political and Social Thought, and a student-athlete at the University of Virginia.  Last Friday, 12 University students began a hunger strike to protest the economic and social injustices perpetrated by the UVa administration against the vast majority of the University’s service-sector[Read More…]

Plan Won’t Help Families, Doesn’t Address our Nation’s Revenue Crisis Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012. The corporate tax reform announcement from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner comes as a disappointment to American families struggling to make ends meet. Instead of seizing the opportunity to require corporations pay their fair share of taxes,[Read More…]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve Proven Tool to Lower Gasoline Prices Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012.  Today President Barack Obama is expected to speak about high oil and gasoline prices in Florida, including the resultant strain on families’ budgets and slowing of economic growth, and the Center for American Progress released “Time for[Read More…]

NRDC: ‘It will only serve to feed America’s addiction to oil’  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2012.  The following is a statement from Scott Slesinger, legislative director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the House approval of  H.R. 3084,  the “oil above all” component of the House Transportation package: “This radical bill[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2012.  Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States, with Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico and Sweden, is launching a partnership aimed at reducing “short-lived climate forcers,” with a focus on methane, black carbon and hydroflurocarbons, and CAP Chairman John D. Podesta and CAP Senior[Read More…]

Reducing black carbon pollutants a major part of program WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2012.  A United Nations program unveiled today to help reduce methane, hydrofluorcarbons, black carbon from diesel engines and other pollutants will help curb climate change and also save millions of lives over the long-term, according to the Natural Resources[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 14, 2012.  After President Obama released his FY 2013 budget, Mary Kay Henry, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: “A budget is a reflection of our national values and priorities. The President has proposed a budget that focuses on helping the 99%[Read More…]

From ESPN: The Pittsburgh Steelers, with a Hines Ward roster-bonus deadline fast approaching, have decided not to keep the veteran receiver, the NFL Network has reported, citing unnamed sources. Ward, who lost his starting job in 2011, was scheduled to make $4 million in the last two years of his contract but has[Read More…]