Industry requests instigated illegal activity by federal government Helena, MT –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Western Environmental Law Center Late yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge ruled the Trump administration’s indefinite suspension of key aspects of President Obama’s BLM methane waste rule this summer was “arbitrary and capricious.” The court ordered[Read More…]
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Carbon Feedback From Forest Soils Will Accelerate Global Warming, Study Finds
Twenty-six-year research project finds cyclical response between soils, climate system CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Diana Kenney After 26 years, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed a surprising, cyclical response: Soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon release from the soil to the[Read More…]
New Logan Center Conference on Oct. 13-19 to Explore Pan-Africanism
Artists and Scholars Convene Oct. 13-19 for Public Discussion CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: University of Chicago Communications From October 13-19, the Logan Center at the University of Chicago, 915 East 60th Street in Chicago, host Returns, the first gathering of an extensive multiyear research project on Pan-Africanism. The long and[Read More…]
FDA Approves First Test for Screening Zika Virus in Blood Donations
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored By: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the cobas Zika test, a qualitative nucleic acid test for the detection of Zika virus RNA in individual plasma specimens obtained from volunteer donors of whole blood and blood[Read More…]
Starting Over: A Love Story for LGBT History Month at Governors State University
University Park, IL, October 5, 2017 By: GSU Office of Communications On October 21 at 8 p.m., MPAACT Theatre of Chicago presents Starting Over, a story of love, tolerance, and identity. Shown as part of LGBT History Month, this production follows a young biracial couple from an intolerant small town[Read More…]
USNS Comfort Responds to Hospital-Generator Failure in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (NNS) –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Lt. j.g. Samuel R. Boyle, USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) The Mercy-class Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, received five critical patients around 8 p.m. Oct. 4, from Ryder Memorial Hospital in Humacao, Puerto[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Finalizes Rule to Stop Payday Debt Traps
Lenders Must Determine If Consumers Have the Ability to Repay Loans That Require All or Most of the Debt to be Paid Back at Once WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today finalized a rule that is aimed[Read More…]
Americans in Rural Areas More Likely to Die by Suicide
Suicide rates for rural counties consistently higher than urban counties from 2001-2015 Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: The Center for Disease Control (CDC) Rural counties consistently had higher suicide rates than metropolitan counties from 2001-2015, according to data released today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[Read More…]
U.S. Service Members Killed in Niger, Africom Officials Announce
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 5, 2017 By: DoD News Three U.S. service members and a service member from a partner nation were killed in southwestern Niger yesterday, U.S. Africa Command officials said. Two other U.S. service members were injured and were evacuated in stable condition to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, Africom[Read More…]
ACLU Statement on DOJ Rescinding Title VII Protections for Transgender Workers
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a federal government policy yesterday that clarified that transgender people are protected from sex discrimination in the workplace under Title VII. James Esseks, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT & HIV Project,[Read More…]
