by Sophia Bollag | Mar 18, 2014 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Recent protests of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline have highlighted the increasing importance of young voters to the conservation movement, a trend that might cause environmental issues to become more important in future elections. Dozens of young...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 17, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama appeared in a video on the comedy website Funny or Die to plug his health care law last week, some pundits were quick to criticize. “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade said on his Fox News show that the president’s strategy...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 11, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin said Tuesday he will introduce a bill to provide “steady, predictable funding” for biomedical research, saying the U.S. has an “innovation deficit.” During a speech at the non-partisan think tank, the Center for...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 7, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Activists protested the Keystone XL oil pipeline outside the State Department on Friday, the last day for public input on the proposal. Opponents of the pipeline including representatives from dozens of environmental and social justice...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 5, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Military medical personnel should prioritize new technology and work with private health care providers to improve medicine for both veterans and civilians, a panel of experts at the Reserve Officers Association said Wednesday. Through their use of data...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 4, 2014 | Health & Science
Although the Affordable Care Act initially called for all states to expand Medicaid by Jan. 1, the Supreme Court ruled states could decide for themselves whether to expand Medicaid. Click the map for more information on Medicaid expansion by state. Status of Medicaid...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 25, 2014 | Politics
[View the story “Biden talks 2016, health care on TV talk shows” on Storify] Read our live-blog coverage of Biden’s appearance on “The View”:
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 19, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — David Medine, head of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, defended the panel’s decision to make its first order of business a review of “glamorous” and timely privacy issues, specifically the National Security Agency’s telephone data...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 11, 2014 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Technology designed to cut carbon emissions in coal-fired power plants is currently too costly for practical use across the country, Energy Department officials said Tuesday. Carbon capture and storage techniques – known as CCS technologies – will...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 7, 2014 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule limiting power plants’ carbon emissions got a big thumbs-up from environmentalist Rep. Henry Waxman Thursday at a rally outside the EPA building. The California lawmaker and top Democrat on the House...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 5, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON –The federal government should set higher digital security standards for companies collecting consumer information to avoid future data breaches like those at three major national retailers that affected millions of Americans’ data over the last few months,...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 4, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jay Rockefeller Tuesday blamed inadequate federal regulations for the recent water contamination crisis that left hundreds of thousands of residents in his home state of West Virginia without safe water for at least three weeks. “Regulation is soft...
