With Support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Urban Design Team Proposes Outer Borough Light Rail
Release Date:
06/30/2017
... protection in four different tri-state areas. RPA' s rail line proposal was brought to life by designers at Only .....
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Editorial: States Dare to Think Big on Climate Change
Release Date:
08/28/2017
... news about climate change, and the Trump administration’ s resistance to doing anything about it, is the determination ...
EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications
Release Date:
09/05/2017
EPA Now Requires Political Aide’ s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications The ... in solicitations. . . EPA Now Requires Political Aide’ s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications ...
Opinion: Nonprofits Have a Big Stake in Overtime-Rules Debate
Release Date:
09/05/2017
... for fair employment standards while they often face what’ s become known as "operational anxiety" as they try to figure .....
Brooklyn District Attorney Candidates Differ on Immigration Policy
Release Date:
09/06/2017
... and bringing charges, during an interview with WNYC' s Brian Lehrer. He said the policy only applies to low-level ... two immigration attorneys to advise his staffers on how to protect green card holders...
LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That
Release Date:
09/06/2017
LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There' s an Effort to Change That Teachers sit at square tables in a ... sources about the civil rights icon Bayard Rustin. There' s his 1987 obituary in The...
The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear
Release Date:
09/07/2017
When news leaked on Monday that President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — the 2012 policy that granted administrative relief to some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States...
Democrats Look To Trump On DREAM Act After He Puts Expiration Date On DACA Program
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... with Democrats — and Democrats see an opportunity to protect young immigrants. On Wednesday, the president ... funded until early December. Democrats hope the president' s apparent willingness to work...
Hurricane Irma Linked to Climate Change? For Some, a Very ‘Insensitive’ Question.
Release Date:
09/11/2017
Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, says it is insensitive to discuss climate change in the midst of deadly storms.
Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation
Release Date:
09/13/2017
... Brushing aside objections by ExxonMobil, New York' s highest court has opened the door for state officials to demand that the oil giant' s outside auditor immediately turn over records as part of a...
Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These
Release Date:
09/14/2017
... vulnerable to storms. We also know what we have to do to protect them from flood damage. Yet the work has not been ...
The Fate of NYC’s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry
Release Date:
09/15/2017
The Fate of NYC’ s Undocumented Bakers Could Change the Food Industry Recently ... with worker advocates to urge the food industry to better protect immigrant workers under the Trump administration. ... firing of...
Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September
Release Date:
09/18/2017
... Care Act before the end of the month, asking Congress’ s nonpartisan budget analysts to fast-track consideration of ... aide. The measure from Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R- S .C.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Ron...
Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate
Release Date:
10/10/2017
The Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraception and issued sweeping guidance on religious freedom that critics said could also erode civil rights protections for lesbian,...
After White House Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim
Release Date:
10/10/2017
The list of hard-line immigration demands that President Trump said he needs to back protections for young undocumented immigrants triggered a furious response on Monday from Democrats and immigration activists, who gave no indication they were...
A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving Market
Release Date:
10/10/2017
... for potential investors and issuers seeking to do more to protect the planet. . . A Green Bond Primer: Overview of a ...
Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits
Release Date:
11/09/2017
... Student advocates point to the Trump administration' s ties to the for-profit industry and accuse DeVos of putting .....
New York Women's Foundation Awards $1 Million for Resilience
Release Date:
11/28/2017
New York Women' s Foundation Awards $1 Million for Resilience The New York Women' s Foundation has announced grants totaling $1 million to ... to build resistance to harmful policies and strategies and...
Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream
Release Date:
01/05/2018
... only to advocate for the protection of America’ s Dreamers and find a bipartisan, long-term solution to the ... in more countries, requires new ways of thinking. That’ s how we’ll continue to change the...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Gene Editing Research to Identify Gene that Controls Butterfly Wing Color
Release Date:
10/26/2018
... have wing patterns and colors that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators, and new research by ...