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…]
Opinion
New Report: Moving Away from Racial Stereotypes in Poverty Policy
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012. Today the Center for American Progress released a report, “Moving Away from Racial Stereotypes in Poverty Policy: Trends Suggest a Decline in Race Baiting, Creating Ways to Better Examine Race in Policymaking,” that analyzes how race baiting and stereotypes affect the debate about public benefits and[Read More…]
Successful London Conference Important for Future of Somalia: Enough Project Report
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012. Today’s London Conference on the future of Somalia is widely seen as a critical moment in Somalia’s long 20-year crisis and could shape the direction of the country in the coming years, for better or for worse, according to a new Enough Project report. The report, “Somalia:[Read More…]
House Approves Arctic, Offshore Drilling Disguised as Transportation Legislation
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…]
International Community Must Help Reform Congo’s Justice System: Enough Project Report
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2012. The United States and the international community must strongly support Congolese partners to reform the country’s justice system in order to break the flagrant cycle of impunity and promote accountability, according to a new Enough Project report. The report, “Time Works against Justice: Ending Impunity in Eastern[Read More…]
National Survey Reveals Libyans Would Prefer One-man-rule Over Democracy
UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–16 February 2012. The first ever National Survey of Libya suggests that the population would still prefer one-man-rule over alternatives like democracy. The publication of the survey of over 2,000 Libyan people coincides with the anniversary of the first protests triggered by rebel forces against Gaddafi, which ended after[Read More…]
Video Series on Alabama’s Immigration Law, Report Assesses Economic and Social Cost
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2012. Today, the Center for American Progress hosted acclaimed director Chris Weitz (“A Better Life,” “The Golden Compass,” “About a Boy”) who unveiled four new short videos comprising the series, “Is This Alabama?“, that turns the lens on Alabama’s harsh anti-immigration law, H.B. 56. The Center for[Read More…]
New Video Illustrates the Success of the Federal Stimulus
Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 15, 2012. The Center for American Progress today released a video examining the success of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus, signed into law three years ago on Friday. The video, narrated by Michael Linden, Director of Tax and Budget Policy at the[Read More…]
Center for American Progress on Secretary Clinton’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Announcement
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…]
NRDC: Initiative by United States, United Nations to Cut Short-Term Climate Pollutants a Positive Step
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…]
