Father's Day recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak at a Father's Day celebration and he wanted to make it an officially recognized federal holiday, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed throughout the entire nation, but he stopped short at issuing a national proclamation. Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a Father's Day proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers
Burning the Future: Coal in America during Earth Day weekend, April 21–22, 2012 for people who signed up on the website of the film, Burning the Future: Coal in America. The film finished production in 2008 and garnered mostly positive reviews from critics, with Matt Zoller Seitz from the New York Times boldly stating that the film was “as upsetting as it was informative.” Pam Solo, the Founder and President of the Civil Society Institute, stated that “this moving and disturbing story adds the human element to a sanitized political debate. Burning the Future just might help us move politicians to solve global warming and our