PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 4 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news: * * * - It separates fiction from facts and sets standards for journalists. Since its formation in 1993, the Annenberg Public Policy Center has surely made its mark. * * * Three decades ago, Kathleen Hall Jamieson was named dean of Penn's Annenberg School for Communication. It was a position the flourishing scholar, author, and professor was ready and willing to take on--but she had one other aspi more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility issued the following news release: * * * - Chemical Safety Board Shirked Its Clean Air Act Mandate to Protect Communities * * * A federal judge has ruled that communities have a right to know what chemicals are released by industrial accidents in their midst, according to the opinion issued in a lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and community groups. The Clean Air Act requires the  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Alliance to Save Energy issued the following news release: The Alliance to Save Energy called for the Department of Energy to reconsider its proposal released Wednesday to undo efficiency standards for many lightbulbs - a rollback that would cost Americans billions of dollars in lost energy savings. "This is about so much more than lightbulbs. It's about progress and innovation and making sure we have practical rules in place so that consumers are getting the most cos more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- The office of Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: * * * - Portman's Bipartisan Trade Security Act Requires the Department of Defense to Justify National Security Basis for New Tariffs Under Section 232 * * * U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) delivered remarks on the Senate floor on new bipartisan legislation he introduced this week called the Trade Security Act, which will rein in misuse of the Section 232 trade law while preserving this trade re more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- The office of Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following opening remarks at a committee hearing to receive testimony on the posture of U.S. Africa and U.S. Southern Commands: " ""Good morning. The Committee meets today to receive testimony on United States Africa Command and Southern Command. I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their service: "- General Thomas Waldhauser, Commander of U.S. Africa Comman more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The office of Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement on the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act (S.1): "Mr. President -- I come to the Senate Floor today with a sense of great disappointment -- disappointment in what my colleague, the senior senator from Florida and the Republican Leader have done with the bill before us today. Because they have taken a bill that had broad -- maybe unanimous -- bipartisan support and tri more PR

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Feb. 8 -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools issued the following news: Barringer Academic Center's kindergarten and first-grade students filled the cafeteria for a big surprise Feb. 8. Principal Stephanie Range talked about what made Barringer special and then announced that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Hands on Charlotte selected their school for a new playground build. Students enthusiastically clapped, cheered and danced. The rest of the school was told over the p more PR