by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 21, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON –– Gail Sasse gave birth to her son, Joey, in late February, but she didn’t feel close to the baby until recently. Joey spent the first days of his life in the NICU after he began experiencing tremors — a symptom of neonatal abstinence syndrome. He...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Americans are increasingly concerned that climate change is both real and manmade, and major fossil fuel industries are heeding the change in public sentiment by investing in green energy. In 2019 alone, BP and Glencore agreed to investor demands to set...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON –– A bill to renew a diesel emissions reduction law is one of the few successful climate initiatives with bipartisan support and should get quick congressional approval, senators on the Environment and Public Works committee said Wednesday at a hearing on...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON –– The Department of Homeland Security has been regularly “misleading” Congress and the public by denying it was separating thousands of children from parents at the border and failing to give the House Homeland Security Committee documents related to the...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 19, 2019 | Politics
WASHINGTON –– The U.S. needs a new trade deal with Japan and Southeast Asia because current tariffs means U.S. products and services are too expensive to compete in the robust markets, experts said Tuesday at an East-West Center trade discussion. “They are facing...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 14, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Energy, Featured
WASHINGTON –– The United States’ energy infrastructure has increasingly become a primary target for hostile cyber attacks, Assistant Secretary of Energy Karen Evans told lawmakers on Thursday. “The frequency, scale and sophistication of cyber threats have increased,”...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 7, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., rolled out their plan for the already famed Green New Deal in a joint resolution and press conference Thursday, calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The highly anticipated resolution...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 6, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Mass., and Gov. Roy Cooper, D-N.C., testified before House lawmakers on Wednesday about the necessity of federal leadership to combat climate change. “Climate change is an existential threat,” said Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., who plans to...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got one of his biggest rounds of applause during his State of the Union address Tuesday night when he noted that Congress now has a record-high number of elected women, but it wasn’t lost on the crowd that when the women rose to...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 31, 2019 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Economic redistribution is the solution to global inequality, according to International Monetary Fund researchers who gathered Thursday at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “We’ve seen protest after protest over the past 20 years in...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 30, 2019 | Environment, Featured
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, experts predict that the effects of hurricanes, floods, and other disasters will be much worse for low-income communities. Houston’s Manchester neighborhood is a symbol of the problem. On one...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON –– After two years without an administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, President Trump’s pick to lead the agency, Nicole Nason, testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday. Nason, an experienced government...
