04.19.06 REPORT: PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING COULD BE A MAJOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE UNITED STATES

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3/15/06: BIPARTISAN 3 OUT OF 4 AMERICANS FAULT WEAK FEDERAL LEADERSHIP ON GLOBAL WARMING & ENERGY ALTERNATIVES, STRONG SUPPORT SEEN FOR GROWING NUMBER OF STATE/LOCAL INITIATIVES

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1/26/06: U.S. MUTUAL FUND INVESTORS "COMPLETELY AT ODDS" WITH FUND MANAGERS ON HANDLING OF GLOBAL WARMING

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12/1/05: Ever heard of the Ford Fiesta that gets 45mpg in the city and 60mpg on the highway? Not familiar with the Volkswagen Lupo with a combined city/highway rating of 53.5 mpg? Don't remember a car salesman ever offering you a test drive in a GM Opel/Vauxhall Tigra that does better than 60mpg on the open road? Never been passed by the sleek BMW 5 Series Saloon that gets 50mpg on the highway? You are far from alone.

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9/22/05: Fed up with price gouging and federal inaction on energy, 4 out of 5 Americans- including 76% of Republicans- would support "a tax on the windfall profits of oil companies" if the resulting revenues were devoted to alternative energy research...

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6/29/05: Dogged by high oil prices and the war in Iraq, the American public is now prepared to start drawing lines in the sand of the Middle East, according to a new Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) national survey conducted for the Civil Society Institute (CSI) and 40mpg.org…

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6/23/05:: MASSACHUSETTS NCLB STUDY: FAILURE AHEAD FOR 74% OF BAY STATE SCHOOLS, EXPOSING NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND FLAWS

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SURVEY: N.J. VOTERS SUPPORT $230 MILLION STEM CELL RESEARCH BOND INITIATIVE BY 2-1 MARGIN

FOUR OUT OF FIVE MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS BACK STATE STEM CELL RESEARCH BILL

MUTUAL FUND SHAREHOLDERS URGED TO TURN UP THE HEAT ON EXXONMOBIL'S GLOBAL WARMING

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3/17/05- SURVEY: 9 OUT OF 10 AMERICANS SUPPORT 40 MPG VEHICLE GOAL TO CUT U.S. MIDDLE EASTERN OIL DEPENDENCY, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

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3/17/05- 40MPG.ORG POLL: 2 OUT OF 3 AMERICANS SEE BUYING MORE FUEL-EFFICIENT VEHICLE AS "PATRIOTIC," HIGH GAS PRICES ALREADY DRIVING HALF TO DO SO

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3/16/05- FOUR OUT OF FIVE MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS BACK STATE STEM CELL RESEARCH BILL. BOSTON, MA. A solid 81 percent of Massachusetts adults support a state bill that would encourage stem cell research, permit somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT or so called "therapeutic cloning," which is used to create stem cells for medical research) and also ban cloning to create new human life, according to a new Hart Research survey ... Support for the pending state bill is strong across the board, including Catholics (76 percent), Republicans (66 percent), and small town/rural residents (81 percent)...

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3/16/05- SURVEY: N.J. VOTERS SUPPORT $230 MILLION STEM CELL RESEARCH BOND INITIATIVE BY 2-1 MARGIN. TRENTON, N.J. By a wide margin of 61-31 percent, New Jersey registered voters back a statewide bond initiative to raise $230 million for stem cell research, according to a new Hart Research survey ... Over three quarters (83 percent) of state residents said that they think voters should decide the question of state funding for stem cell research, compared to only about one in 10 (11 percent) would prefer to have state lawmakers handle the question... 

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2/15/05 - SURVEY: MORE AMERICANS SUPPORT STEM CELL RESEARCH, MOST BACK FEDERAL BILL AND STATE INITIATIVES- WASHINGTON, D.C. -February 15, 2005 - A new Results For America survey shows that more than three out of five Americans (63 percent) now back embryonic stem cell research, and even higher levels of support exist for bipartisan federal legislation to promote more such research (70 percent) and the growing number of state-level initiatives to encourage stem cell work (76 percent do or might support such measures)...

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1/11/05 - SURVEY: AMERICAN VOTERS SUPPORT “NEW REALISM” IN FOREIGN POLICY, SECURITY. Voters Urge Focus on More Diplomacy, Multilateral Use of Force Where Necessary and Greater Energy Efficienc. Fewer than one in 10 voters (7 percent) think that the primary focus of American foreign policy and security should be on the “democracy building” that is now the major thrust of U.S. efforts in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East…

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12/7/04 - NEW CERES STUDY: MUTUAL FUNDS GIVE CLIMATE CHANGE PROXY RESOLUTIONS A COLD SHOULDER, EVEN AS PENSION FUNDS WARM UP TO THEM. A mere 2 percent of the assets of the largest 100 mutual funds in America voted in 2004 to support shareholder resolutions calling for more corporate disclosure on the financial impacts from global warming...

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10/28/04 - EXPERTS: NEW ENGLAND'S COLORS COULD VANISH IN 100 YEARS DUE TO UNCHECKED GLOBAL WARMING. As the fifth disappointing New England fall color display in as many years draws to a close, experts convened by Results for America are warning that the region's once glorious autumnal forest leaf displays could disappear altogether in as little as a century if global warming continues on its current path.

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10/21/04 - FACTSMATTER.ORG SEPARATES “SPIN” FROM TRUTH ON KEY ISSUES OF HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION REFORM AND THE ENVIRONMENT: To help Americans see through the hype and distractions put forward by the spin masters in both major political parties, a new Web site is putting key issues – health care, education and the environment -- under the microscope.

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10/14/04 - KIDS ACROSS U.S. SPEAK OUT ON SCHOOL REFORM: More than two dozen "Kids Speak Out" events organized by Results For America will take place across the United States today (October 14, 2004) so that students - the missing voice in the education reform debate - can express their ideas about the best ways to improve American education...

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10/6/04 - PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: "KEEP IT CLEAN" ON ENERGY: A wide-ranging group of 22 union, religious, science, state government and former federal officials today petitioned the trustees of the Commission on Presidential Debates to "include questions about the candidates' plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting clean energy and clean vehicle technologies" in one or both of the last two presidential debates ...

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9/21/04 - New Website- NCLBgrassroots.org- BRINGS INTO FOCUS GROWING LOCAL OPPOSITION TO CONTROVERSIAL SCHOOL REFORMS

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9/15/04 - SURVEY: ONE-THIRD TO BUY CHEAPER CANADIAN DRUGS, 100 MILLION FIND INSURANCE COVERAGE CUT OR COSTLIER: Faced with a double-barreled crisis of shrinking health care coverage and fast-rising medical costs, two out of three American adults (67 percent) now think health care coverage should be a "guarantee" as in Canada, Britain and other nations, according to a new Results for America national opinion survey. Three out of four American adults (78 percent) agree that health care is a necessity like water, gas and electricity and should be "regulated by government"...

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9/8/04 - A new Web site from Results For America looks at the top holdings of the 24 largest equity mutual funds in the United States and finds that a full third of the most widely held stocks in the funds could be hurt by the glare of global warming or benefit from steps they have taken to cope with climate change. The Web site provides extensive company-specific data selected by RFA from the SOCRATES database of KLD Research & Analytics (KLD), the nation's premier provider of third-party corporate social research.

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6/16/04 - "By a decisive margin of 74-21 percent, Americans support former First Lady Nancy Reagan's call for the Bush White House to lift restrictions on stem cell research in order to look for possible treatments for the Alzheimer's disease that afflicted former President Ronald Reagan prior to his recent death, as well as the other grave illnesses - including diabetes, Parkinson's, heart disease and multiple sclerosis - that are suffered by millions of other Americans, according to a new survey conducted on behalf of Results For America (RFA) project. The opinion survey of public attitudes about stem cell research is the first to be conducted since the death of President Reagan..."

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4/29/2004 - "Millions of poor and minority children in America's cities likely will suffer even higher rates of asthma as the result of a "powerful one-two punch" of higher levels of pollen and changes in the types of molds spurred by global warming along with unhealthy urban air masses caused by the burning of fossil fuel by cars, trucks and buses, according to a warning issued today by Harvard researchers and the American Public Health Association..."

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4/26/04 - "Majority support stem cell research to save lives..."

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4/12/2004 - "Canadians Urged to Report Drug Company-Induced Medication Shortages. Canadian health care consumers are being encouraged by a nonprofit organization in the United States to help document cases where they are unable to get prescription medications due to supply cutbacks by drug companies seeking to discourage U.S. citizens from buying lower-priced Canadian drugs..."

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3/25/2004 - "Community service and the more rigorous service-learning projects in American schools have held their own over the last years in the face of budget cuts and the new teaching-to-the-test focus of “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) school reforms, according to a major national survey of 1,799 elementary, middle and high school principals. . . . "

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3/11/2004 - "MoveOn.org misses the heart of the real debate about 'No Child Left Behind' (NCLB) when it calls for the resignation of Education Secretary Rod Paige and laments the lack of sufficient funding for NCLB. Mr. Paige's comments equating teachers with terrorists were unwise . . . . "

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2/25/2004 - Survey , Parent Support for "No Child Left Behind" Thin

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2/25/2004 - Only "50-50" Chance of High School Graduation for U.S. minority students: Weak accountability rules found

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10/17/03 - Presidential Primary Candidate Forums to Highlight Children’s Issues October 20th, 27th, 29th, 31st, & November 3rd in New Hampshire (click here for Ad)

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10/16/03 - Poll:  Americans See"Leadership Gap" On Solutions For Health Care, Schools and Environment

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09/29/03 - U.S. Agriculture, Food Supply Face Major Dangers and Some Opportunities from Global Warming

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07/02/03 - Wildfire Problem in the U.S. To Grow and Lead To Major Health Problems if Global Warming is Not Addressed

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06/18/03 - Harvard Medical, Insurance Experts Tell Members of Congress that Public Health, Insureance Risks of Global Warming "Are Here Already"

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