Day: February 3, 2015

Ebola Vaccine Trial Opens in Liberia, Feb. 2, 2015

Study Led by Liberia-NIH Partnership Will Test Two Experimental Vaccines Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2015.  A large clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of two experimental vaccines to prevent Ebola virus infection is now open to volunteers in Liberia. The trial is being led by a recently formed Liberia-U.S.[Read More…]

NRDC: President’s Budget is Important Step for Public Health, Environment, Feb. 2, 2015

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2015—President Obama’s new budget proposal would start closing the books on a sad chapter in recent U.S. history, in which Congress slashed investments in our parks and other natural resources – while depriving the Environmental Protection Agency of the necessary funds to fully enforce our basic environmental protection[Read More…]

Sierra Club Statement on President Obama’s Budget, Feb. 2, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2015.  Today, the Obama Administration released a new budget proposal for FY2016 that includes: Increases in funding to the Environmental Protection Agency to support climate change initiatives and the implementation of the Clean Power Plan. Increases in funding to the Department of the Interior to permit[Read More…]

Statement of Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the President’s 2016 Budget

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2015.  President Obama is proposing a surprisingly ambitious budget that would make progress — in some cases modest, in others large — in various areas in which policy sclerosis has prevented the nation from addressing significant problems.  It would expand opportunity, especially for children; reform various programs[Read More…]

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