30 Rhino Horns Smuggled to China to Make Imitation Antiques and “Medicine” Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2013. Zhifei Li, the owner of an antique business in China, pleaded guilty today to being the organizer of an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which 30 rhinoceros horns and numerous objects made from rhino[Read More…]
Day: December 19, 2013
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, State Authorities Order Ocwen to Provide $2 Billion in Relief to Homeowners for Servicing Wrongs
Largest Nonbank Servicer Will Also Refund $125 Million to Foreclosure Victims and Adhere to Significant New Homeowner Protections WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2013. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), authorities in 49 states, and the District of Columbia filed a proposed court order requiring the country’s largest nonbank mortgage loan[Read More…]
President Obama Grants Pardons and Commutation
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty-one individuals, consisting of eight commutations and thirteen pardons. The President granted commutations to the following eight individuals: Clarence Aaron – Mobile, Ala. Offense: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base; possession with intent to[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on Clemency
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. Three years ago, I signed the bipartisan Fair Sentencing Act, which dramatically narrowed the disparity between penalties for crack and powder cocaine offenses. This law began to right a decades-old injustice, but for thousands of inmates, it came too late. If they had been sentenced under[Read More…]
President Obama to Commute Sentences for 8 in Crack Cocaine Cases
Drug Policy Alliance: President Praised; Many Others Deserve Similar Relief; Congress Should Reform Mandatory Minimum Laws NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2013. Today President Obama is expected to commute the sentences of eight federal inmates convicted of non-violent drug offenses involving crack cocaine. Mr. Obama, said the eight men and women had[Read More…]
Federal Agencies Asked to Provide Data Behind Questionable Grizzly Bear Population Numbers
Endangered Species Act Protections in Yellowstone Region at Stake LIVINGSTON, Mont.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. Citing concerns that federal estimates of Yellowstone grizzly bear population size and trends are not reliable, the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service[Read More…]
New Study Shows Recently Approved Sierra Vista Development Will Directly Harm San Pedro River
TUCSON, Arizona–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. A new study by University of Arizona scientists finds that a water pumping scheme to serve nearly 7,000 new homes in Sierra Vista, Ariz., will significantly decrease the San Pedro’s stream flow at the driest time of the year when the river is the most vulnerable.[Read More…]
Neanderthal Genome Shows Evidence of Early Human Interbreeding, Inbreeding
BERKELEY–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman’s toe bone that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according[Read More…]
FDA Should Reject Food Industry’s Efforts to Allow ‘Natural’ Food to Contain GE Ingredients
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. Statement of Environmental Working Group’s Scott Faber, senior vice-president of government affairs, on the food industry’s petition to the Food and Drug Administration to permit foods labeled as “natural” to contain genetically engineered ingredients: Consumers who buy foods labeled as ‘natural’ expect those foods to be[Read More…]
EU Officials Warn of Health Risks from Pesticides Common on U.S. Fruits and Vegetables
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 203. The decision by Europe’s top food safety agency to call for new restrictions on two pesticides common on conventionally-grown U.S. produce because they “may affect the developing human nervous system” in young children underscores the danger of reliance on pesticides, Environmental Working Group said yesterday. The[Read More…]
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