Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 26, 2016. Regional and state unemployment rates were little changed in December. Twenty-five states had unemployment rate decreases from November, 14 states had increases, and 11 states and the District of Columbia had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-two states and the District[Read More…]
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ACLU Comment on President Obama’s Reforms to Solitary Confinement in Federal Prisons
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2016. The U.S. Department of Justice today released its first-ever guidance on solitary confinement, Report and Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing, and President Obama announced in a Washington Post op-ed that he has adopted the report’s recommendations to overhaul the use of solitary in[Read More…]
Bureau of Land Management Methane Rule will Benefit Public Health Through Common-sense Safeguards
NEW MEXICO–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2016 By: Robert M. Bernstein, MD, FACE, President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, New Mexico Chapter Physicians for Social Responsibility applauds the Bureau of Land Management for undertaking the proposed methane waste rule released last week. Offering more than just financial and environmental gains, the rule has the[Read More…]
Former US Navy Officer and Marine Chris Mark’s Open Letter to Sarah Palin
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—January 25, 2016. Following her son’s arrest last week for domestic violence, Sarah Palin blamed his drunken and dangerous episode on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and inferred that somehow President Obama was also to blame for his outburst. Chris Mark is a former enlisted US Marine and US Navy[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Supreme Court’s Demand Response Decision a Major Win for Consumers, Public Health, Clean Energy Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a key building block of America’s clean energy economy today by finding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has the authority to regulate demand response payments in wholesale energy markets run by regional grid operators. Demand response[Read More…]
Earthjustice: Supreme Court Ruling a Win for Clean Energy
Victory: Decision helps reduce barriers to critical clean energy resource, reducing rates and enhancing grid reliability The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Architect of the Capitol Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that ensures that a critically important clean energy resource[Read More…]
Environment America: Proposed Methane Limits Good, But Do Little to Staunch Climate Impacts of Fossil Fuels
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 22, 2016. Today the Obama administration announced a draft rule to limit methane emissions from some 100,000 fracking and drilling wells on public lands. Methane, a climate-warming pollutant many times more potent than carbon dioxide, makes up about a tenth of U.S. global warming pollution. Anna[Read More…]
Sarah Palin Endorses Donald Trump: Stephen Colbert Video
From Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump.
What Iowa and New Hampshire Do, and Do Not, Predict About the November Election
Commentary By John A. Ostenburg While lots of media attention is given every four years to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary election, those events appear to be only minimal predictors at best of what else will occur in the presidential contests. The first-in-the-nation status of the New[Read More…]
On Eve of Roe v. Wade Anniversary, Anti-Abortion Activism Not ‘Pro-Woman’
Winterberries at the U.S. Botanic Garden on Capitol Hill, December 2015. Source: AP/J. Scott Applewhite Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2016. Today, on the eve of the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Roe v. Wade decision—which affirmed a woman’s right to abortion—the Center for American Progress released a[Read More…]
