Ethan Nadelmann’s Visionary Speech on How Society Should Deal with Drug Use NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—October 11, 2013. Editor’s Note: We’d like to thank Tony Newman for providing us with this article for reprint. Why are some drugs legal and others illegal? Who are the people who make up the drug policy[Read More…]
Year: 2013
Crystals in Picabo’s Rocks Point to ‘Recycled’ Super-volcanic Magma Chambers
EUGENE, Oregon–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013 — A thorough examination of tiny crystals of zircon, a mineral found in rhyolites, an igneous rock, from the Snake River Plain has solidified evidence for a new way of looking at the life cycle of super-volcanic eruptions in the long track of the Yellowstone hotspot,[Read More…]
Food & Water Watch: Foster Farms’ Remarkable Recovery
Statement from Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. “In just three days, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) went from threatening to shut down Foster Farms due to serious food safety lapses to declaring last night that the company had made a remarkable[Read More…]
State ‘Clean Up’ Plan Could Leave 24 Million Californians Exposed to Potent Carcinogen
Oakland, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. The State of California’s proposed drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, could leave roughly 24 million residents, or more than 60 percent of the state’s population, unprotected from the known carcinogen, according to a review of the proposal by Environmental Working Group, Clean Water[Read More…]
Avoid Red-Listed Louisiana Shrimp Warns Seafood Watch
Leading seafood analysts denounce Louisiana’s shrimp fishery for its failure to enforce laws protecting endangered sea turtles from trawl nets LOUISIANA–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. A Seafood Watch assessment of the U. S. shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico has for the first time listed all Louisiana wild-caught shrimp as[Read More…]
NRDC: What Happened to Canada?
The real record on how the pro-oil government is trampling on speech, science, the environment and its own credibility…all in the name of tar sands Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper digs his heels in by saying he “won’t take no” on the Keystone XL tar[Read More…]
Health and Environmental Groups Challenge EPA to Update Clean Air Standards for New Wood Boilers and Furnaces
Groups seek clean air solutions to protect health of communities and families from dangerous soot Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. On Wednesday, national health and environmental groups filed a legal challenge to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to update clean air standards that limit emissions from new outdoor wood boilers,[Read More…]
Rosetta: 100 Days to Wake-up
EU–(ENEWSPF)–11 October 2013. ESA’s comet-chasing mission Rosetta will wake up in 100 days’ time from deep-space hibernation to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decade. Comets are the primitive building blocks of the Solar System and the likely source of much of Earth’s water, perhaps even[Read More…]
Alliance for Retired Americans Friday Alert, October 11, 2013
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. Seniors’ Issues Front and Center in Government Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Talks On Wednesday, a letter instigated by Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI) was signed by 51 House Republicans, urging Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to make cuts to Social Security benefits before the debt ceiling is raised and[Read More…]
International Day of the Girl Child: UN Urges ‘Innovating for Girls’ Dducation’
Singer and songwriter Katy Perry lending her support to the Day with her song “Roar” NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–11 October 2013 – Marking International Day of the Girl Child, senior United Nations officials today highlighted the power of innovation to get more girls in classrooms and improve the quality of learning for[Read More…]
