MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. –(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2015 – A New Jersey court today approved a settlement between ExxonMobil and Governor Chris Christie’s administration over damages due for decades of toxic soil and water contamination in the northern part of the state. The settlement gives the oil giant a more than 98 percent[Read More…]
Opinion
Center for American Progress Paper Says It Is Time to Deal with the Turkey We Have, Not the One We Want
U.S. President George H.W. Bush meets with Turkish President Turgut Özal prior to talks in Ankara on July 20, 1991. Source: AP Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2015. As a NATO member and majority-Muslim, secular democracy, Turkey has often been held up as a model partner to the United States and[Read More…]
NRDC: White House Initiative on Energy Efficiency Huge Step Forward
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2015 – The public-private initiative announced today by the Obama Administration will ease some of the worst impacts of climate change being felt in America’s low-income communities, where parents struggle to pay high energy bills and their children suffer from intensified cases of asthma and other respiratory diseases.[Read More…]
Congressional Proposals to Export More American Crude Oil Carry High Environmental Cost
The Delicate Arch at Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, is seen in December 2010. Source: AP/Julie Jacobson Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 21, 2015. A new column released today by the Center for American Progress argues that congressional policymakers should better analyze the potential environmental and economic impacts of changing U.S.[Read More…]
Statement from Lorella Praeli on Jeb Bush’s ‘Anchor Babies’ Comment
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—August 20, 2015. In response to Jeb Bush doubling down on his hateful rhetoric regarding the U.S. born children of immigrants, Hillary For America Latino Outreach Director, Lorella Praeli, released the following statement: “During a press conference today, Jeb Bush tried to outdo Donald Trump and other Republican presidential[Read More…]
This Week: Fried Pork, Butter Cows, and Abortion
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015. With nearly every presidential candidate trooping through Iowa in the past week for their obligatory pilgrimage to the Iowa State Fair, the coverage has mainly focused on helicopter rides, fried food, and who can out-do each other with extreme immigration policies. But one issue has flown[Read More…]
FDA’s Big Mistake: Expect Flibanserin to Be Pulled From the Market in a Few Years
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015. Statement of Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Founder and Senior Adviser, Public Citizen’s Health Research Group: Note: Dr. Sidney Wolfe, founder and senior adviser of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, testified on June 4 before two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committees urging the agency to[Read More…]
Study: 1.14 Million will Travel by Bus Over 2015 Labor Day Holiday
Chaddick Institute at DePaul University tracks U.S. intercity bus trends A Greyhound bus makes a stop at Chicago’s Union Station to load and unload passengers. Intercity bus travel is expected to be at its highest level for the 2015 Labor Day holiday in at least a decade, find researchers from[Read More…]
Hurricane Katrina’s Health Care Legacy and the Need for Medicaid Expansion in Gulf Coast States
Dr. Alan Shapiro, of the Children’s Health Fund in New York, gives an asthma breathing test to Ja’Shayna Davis in Gulfport, Mississippi, on September 13, 2005. Source: AP/Darron Cummings Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2015. One decade after the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama felt the catastrophic effects of Hurricane[Read More…]
National Organization for Women Welcomes FDA Decision on Women’s HSDD Treatment
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—August 19, 2015. Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: The Food and Drug Administration did the right thing by approving the first-ever medical treatment for women’s most common sexual complaint and we hope that other safe and effective treatments will be approved. Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) is[Read More…]
