Please join moderator Morton Kondracke of Roll Call in a constructive discussion with our panel of distinguished budget experts on the PAYGO, MedPAC, and other proposals to reform the federal budget process. 

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) are co-hosting a one-day conference titled, Managing the Risk of Foodborne Hazards: STECs and Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens, in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. 

The Pew Project on National Security, Energy & Climate will host a briefing by Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti, the United Kingdom’s Climate and Energy Security Envoy, and Vice Admiral Dennis V. McGinn, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Vice Chairman, CNA Military Advisory Board on February 28, 2011.

Erik Olson, Director of the Food and Consumer Product Safety Programs at Pew Health Group, will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by the Consumer Federation of America.

A briefing hosted by the Pew Health Group and Healthy Schools Campaign where winners of Cooking Up Change, a national student competition to create healthy lunches, will describe the joys and benefits of cooking healthful meals. Other panelists will discuss the important role that funding for school equipment and staff training plays, yet illustrate how such changes can be made affordably.

A new Pew report finds that U.S. companies hold a $1.6 billion trade surplus with China in clean energy technologies. Pew and Bloomberg New Energy Finance will overview the findings for a webinar panel discussion on the economic opportunities and competitiveness challenges of the race between the world’s two clean energy super powers.