The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom The Pew Charitable Trusts now offer news delivered to your desktop via RSS Feeds. Subscribing is easy http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room.aspx Pew Study Finds Residential Property Would Account for a Greater Share of Property Tax Burden Under Actual Value Initiative As a result of the property tax overhaul known as the Actual Value Initiative (AVI), residential property will account for a greater share of Philadelphia's total property value—and thus the property tax burden—in 2014 than in 2013, according to a new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Mon, 13 May 2013 12:42:53 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899475832&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom&WT.rss_a=Pew Study Finds Residential Property Would Account for a Greater Share of Property Tax Burden Under Actual Value Initiative&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease Pew Announces $8.46 Million to Support the Philadelphia Region's Poor Children and Their Families The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it will provide $8.46 million over the next three years to 46 Philadelphia-area organizations serving some of the region's most disadvantaged children and their families. Mon, 06 May 2013 14:26:49 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899474043&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom&WT.rss_a=Pew Announces $8.46 Million to Support the Philadelphia Region's Poor Children and Their Families&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease Leading Scientists Back U.S. Efforts to Protect World's Largest Salmon Fishery More than 300 leading scientists sent a letter to the White House expressing "deep concerns" about the prospect of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed of Southwest Alaska, home to the world's largest wild salmon runs. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:21:55 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899471760&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom&WT.rss_a=Leading Scientists Back U.S. Efforts to Protect World's Largest Salmon Fishery&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease CFPB: Payday Loans Leading to 'Revolving Door of Debt' The <em>Philadelphia Inquirer </em>published Wednesday an article about how payday loans trap borrowers in debt. The article cites both a study from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a <a title="February report" href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899452768">February report</a> by Pew's Safe Small-Dollar Loans Research Project. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:44:01 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899470995&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom&WT.rss_a=CFPB: Payday Loans Leading to 'Revolving Door of Debt'&WT.z_contenttype=NewsArticle New Caledonia Creates Shark Sanctuary <p><span>Officials in New Caledonia banned shark fishing in the country’s waters, creating a sanctuary about the size of South Africa. </span></p> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:04:56 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899470684&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Ocean&WT.rss_a=New Caledonia Creates Shark Sanctuary&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease Philadelphia Free Library and Rosenbach Announce Merger to Form Preeminent Rare Book Collection In a historic move, the <a href="http://www.freelibrary.org/">Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation</a> and <a href="http://www.rosenbach.org/">The Rosenbach Museum & Library</a> announced their intent to merge, creating <strong>The Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation.</strong> The affiliation will bring together two of the world's preeminent collections of rare books, artifacts, and manuscripts, including Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula with Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and thus creating one of the greatest collections of rare books, manuscripts, Americana, and art anywhere in the world. Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:43:27 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899469377&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom&WT.rss_a=Philadelphia Free Library and Rosenbach Announce Merger to Form Preeminent Rare Book Collection&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease Global Clean Energy Investment Declined, Capacity Grew in 2012 The global clean energy sector is undergoing geographic and technological shifts as new markets emerge and renewable capacity grows, according to anew report. The sector demonstrated resilience in 2012, registering a record 88 gigawatts, or GW, of additional generating capacity, even though investment levels declined 11 percent, to $269 billion, from 2011. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:10:00 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899469010&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=The Pew Charitable Trusts - Newsroom&WT.rss_a=Global Clean Energy Investment Declined, Capacity Grew in 2012&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease Obama Administration Announces Implementation Plan for the National Ocean Policy Pew issued a statement after the White House released an implementation plan for the National Ocean Policy. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:21:26 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899468972&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Ocean&WT.rss_a=Obama Administration Announces Implementation Plan for the National Ocean Policy&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations. 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