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WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2011 — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service needs rules to protect National Wildlife Refuges from spills and contamination from oil and gas drilling, according to a rulemaking petition filed today by Public Employees for Environm...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2011 - Today, Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, sent a letter to Republican National Committee Chairman, Reince Priebus, questioning a new RNC website that demonizes progress toward LGBT equality. The web...

NEW YORK, NY, April 6, 2011 - Seven of 10 adults think the U.S. health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released today. The concerns reflect widespread experiences with access ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2011 – Today, U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the Education and the Workforce Committee, introduced The Keeping All Students Safe Act, bipartisan legislation to prevent schoolchildren from being abused...

WASHINGTON, April 5 – As the U.S. Congress continues to debates a long-term budget plan for FY11, representatives from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group were joined by Rick Shipman, Director of Financial Aid at Michigan State University, and Mi...

April 5, 2011 - U.S. teen birth rate fell to record low in 2009. Still, more than 400,000 teen girls give birth each year in United States. Teen birth rates have decreased by 37 percent in the last two decades, though U.S. rates are up to nine times h...

April 5, 2011 - A once-classified FBI memo reveals that the bureau treated a senior ABC News journalist as a potential confidential informant in the 1990s, pumping the reporter to ascertain the source of a sensational but uncorroborated tip that the ne...

WASHINGTON D.C.(April 5, 2011) — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced today that the petition filed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW; www.ifaw.org) to list Peary and Dolphin-Union caribou, or Arctic reindeer, under the...

April 5, 2011 - Are you willing to pay extra to receive specific website content more quickly than what your standard Internet service provides? And more importantly, would you really be benefitting? As the battle over "network neutrality" continues b...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 3, 2011 - Some water utility representatives have protested Environmental Working Group's report of laboratory tests that found worrisome levels of chromium-6, a suspected carcinogen, in the drinking water of 31 cities across the...