WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Holly Hollman, general counsel, and Jennifer L. Hawks, associate general counsel, at the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty have issued a public comment on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's proposed rule entitled "Equal Participation of Faith-Based Organizations in HUD Programs and Activities: Implementation of Executive Order 13831". The comment was written on April 13, 2020, and posted on April 16, 2020: * * * BJC (Baptist Joint Committee fo more ST

SANTA MONICA, California, April 20 -- RAND issued the following announcement: The RAND Corporation notes with profound regret the death of Paul H. O'Neill, a longtime RAND trustee and corporate chief executive who served as President George W. Bush's first secretary of the Treasury. "Because of his unusual and highly successful careers in the public and private sectors, Paul O'Neill knew how government worked as well as how business worked," said Michael D. Rich, president and chief executive  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on April 21: Six former senior government officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army condemned the Trump administration's plan to gut long-established clean water protections. The administration's final rule, published in the Federal Register, severely limits the waterways that are protected by the Clean Water Act, undercutting clean water protections that  more PR