GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–9 July 2013 – The United Nations human rights office said today it is alarmed at the sharp escalation of the political crisis in Egypt and deplored the fact that dozens of people have reportedly been killed or wounded amid the ouster of President Mohamed Morsy last week. On Friday[Read More…]
Year: 2013
Former Mexican President Fox Urges Marijuana Legalization At San Francisco Meeting
San Francisco, CA–(ENEWSPF)–At a meeting with drug reform advocates in San Francisco, former Mexican President Vicente Fox expressed support for California’s efforts to legally regulate marijuana, medical and otherwise. Fox said that California has a strong cultural influence on Mexico, and that progress here would help efforts there. Speakers included[Read More…]
Sierra Club Illinois Statement on Chicago Electric Aggregation Deal
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. Today, the City of Chicago formally announced its Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) deal, officially moving one of the nation’s largest cities away from coal-fired power. The City of Chicago developed the city’s new electricity mix based on the authority of a voter-approved referendum last fall. Sierra Club[Read More…]
Ford Recall of Certain Model Year 2013 Ford Explorer, Taurus, and Lincoln MKS Vehicles, July 9, 2013
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 9, 2013. SUMMARY: Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain model year 2013 Ford Explorer, Taurus, and Lincoln MKS vehicles manufactured November 29, 2012, through December 12, 2012. In the affected vehicles, with sufficient door openings and closings, the child safety locks may change from an activated[Read More…]
Detecting DNA in Space
Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. If there is life on Mars, it’s not too farfetched to believe that such Martian species may share genetic roots with life on Earth. More than 3.5[Read More…]
World’s Largest Debt Collection Operation Settles FTC Charges, Will Pay $3.2 Million Penalty
Largest Civil Penalty Ever Obtained by the FTC Against a Third-party Debt Collector Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. The world’s largest debt collection operation, Expert Global Solutions and its subsidiaries, has agreed to stop harassing consumers with allegedly illegal debt collection calls and to pay a $3.2 million civil penalty –[Read More…]
Chlorpyrifos Contamination Could Lead to Trout Troubles in UK
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. A recent pesticide contamination incident in Great Britain’s Kennet River has decimated aquatic invertebrate populations on a ten mile stretch of river between the towns of Marlborough and Hungerford. The contamination occurred after a spill of the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos entered a Marlborough sewage system. The[Read More…]
Central African Republic Abandoned to its Fate
Urgent Medical and Humanitarian Needs Unmet Following Coup BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013—Three months after a coup in Central African Republic (CAR), the country remains gripped by a humanitarian emergency made worse as the international community looks on with indifference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Anonymous’ Report on the Corrections Corporation of America
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. A report released this morning by Anonymous Analytics concludes that the publicly traded prison operator Corrections Corporation of America is a bad investment for shareholders. Carl Takei, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, made the following comments on the report’s release: “The[Read More…]
ACLU Seeks Freedom to Marry for Pennsylvania Couples
Also Announces Marriage Lawsuits in Virginia and North Carolina HARRISBURG, Pa.–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and volunteer counsel from the law firm of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of 23 Pennsylvanians who wish to marry[Read More…]
