ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014. Slightly more than 4 percent of people given death sentences in the United States are innocent, according to new peer-reviewed research led by a University of Michigan expert. The finding shows that the number of innocent people sentenced to death is more than twice the number[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Prehistoric Caribou Hunting Structure Discovered Beneath Lake Huron
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014. Underwater archaeologists have discovered evidence of prehistoric caribou hunts that provide unprecedented insight into the social and seasonal organization of early peoples in the Great Lakes region. An article detailing the discovery of a 9,000-year-old caribou hunting drive lane under Lake Huron appears in today’s issue[Read More…]
NRDC, BlackRock and FTSE Jumpstart Mainstream Climate-Conscious Investing
New Index Excludes Fossil Fuel Extraction Companies NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014 – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), BlackRock and FTSE Group, the global index provider, partnered today in launching the first equity global index series that will exclude companies linked to exploration, ownership or extraction of carbon-based fossil fuel[Read More…]
Koch Brothers in Court Over Chicago’s Petcoke Piles
NRDC and Southeast Environmental Task Force Signal Toxic Waste Suit on Horizon CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014 – Environmental groups yesterday signaled their intention to sue the owners of two sites that together hold massive mounds of oil refining waste and coal on Chicago’s Southeast Side. The Southeast Environmental Task Force (SETF)[Read More…]
Trumpka and Kiley: A Catholic Push for a Higher Wage
We would like to highlight the following, published April 23, 2014, in The Courier-Journal: The Catholic and labor traditions are each clear: For America, raising the wages of the millions of hard-working people struggling to get by is a moral imperative. No one who puts in a full day’s work[Read More…]
Reversing Lower Court, Supreme Court Clears Away Key Obstacle to Major Interstate Air Pollution Safeguard
Rule that had been struck down by D.C. Circuit could save up to 34,000 lives each year Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014. In a victory for clean air and public health, today the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision, in which the D.C. Circuit had struck down the U.S.[Read More…]
Colorado Voters Feel Good About Legalized Marijuana, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Support For Same-Sex Marriage Almost 2-1
Connecticut—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2014. Legalizing marijuana has been good for Colorado, voters in the state say 52 –38 percent, but 52 percent of voters are less likely to vote for a candidate for office who smokes marijuana two or three days a week, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday.[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Takes For-Profit Fight to Illinois Classrooms
Senator writes principals across Illinois seeking allies in effort to protect students from for-profit college abuses WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today urged high school principals across Illinois to ensure that their students are receiving honest and accurate information about their higher education options, and that[Read More…]
Interior Department, National League of Cities and YMCA of the USA Join Forces to Connect Young People to the Outdoors
ST PAUL, MN–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2014. As part of Department of the Interior’s ambitious youth initiative, the National League of Cities (NLC), YMCA of the USA, and the Department yesterday signed an agreement to coordinate efforts to bridge the growing disconnect between young people and the great outdoors by creating meaningful[Read More…]
Stem Cells Look Promising for Treating Heart Disease
Stem cell therapies could potentially reduce numbers of deaths from heart disease when used in addition to standard heart drugs and surgery, research suggests. UK–(ENEWSPF)–29 April 2014. Taking stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow and injecting them into damaged heart tissue may become an effective way to treat heart[Read More…]
