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…]
Year: 2013
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…]
Illinois Members Release County-By-County Numbers of Those Affected by Not Extending Unemployment Insurance
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. On December 28th almost 82,000 people in Illinois are set to lose their unemployment insurance coverage because House Republicans blocked an effort to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program into 2014. An additional 89,000 people in Illinois will lose their coverage in the first six months[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Chicago Campus to Welcome Prospective Students During February 15 Visit Day
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2013. For students in their junior or senior year of high school, college is right around the corner. To help those students and their parents get a start on college planning, Roosevelt University is holding a visit day on Saturday, February 15. “Our visit day is a great[Read More…]
Sochi Project Shows Turbulent Side of Olympic Host Region
Photo exhibit makes US debut at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago This photograph by Rob Hornstra, Beach, Adler, Sochi Region, Russia, 2011, is part of The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus, an exhibition about the grittier side of the 2014 Winter Olympics host region.[Read More…]
Breaking the Cycle of Obesity, Inflammation and Disease
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2013. Researchers at University of Michigan have illuminated an aspect of how the metabolic system breaks down in obesity. The findings provide additional evidence that a drug entering clinical trials at the university could reverse obesity, Type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease in humans. In a[Read More…]
