The Hague, The Netherlands–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014 – 3:15 P.M. CET PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, thank you very much, Mark. Let me begin just by saying that — to Prime Minister Rutte and all the people here in the Netherlands who were involved in organizing this summit, you did an extraordinary job. [Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Georgia Husband and Wife Tax Return Preparers Sent to Prison for Tax Fraud
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 25, 2014. Detrick and Natashia Tucker, a husband and wife who owned and operated a tax preparation business named T&T Express Tax located in Pine Mountain, Ga., were sentenced to serve 12 months and one day and 46 months in prison, respectively, for crimes relating to the preparation[Read More…]
Freedom to Marry, NCLR Launch Resource on U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit Marriage Cases
Oral Arguments for UT and OK Cases Scheduled for April 10 and 17 in Denver New York–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. Next month, freedom to marry cases in Utah and Oklahoma will be heard by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, the first marriage cases to be heard by an appellate court[Read More…]
Women’s Rights in the Dominican Republic Take Center Stage at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. Reproductive health and human rights advocates testified today in Washington, D.C. on women’s rights issues, including discrimination, violence and reproductive rights violations in the Dominican Republic. Despite clear and consistent evidence that restrictive abortion laws do nothing to decrease the prevalence of abortion, the Dominican Republic[Read More…]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act
Two for-profit companies, including arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, attempting to impose religious beliefs on female employees by refusing health insurance benefits for contraception Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in two for-profit companies’ lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit—a[Read More…]
Network News Climate Change Stories Rarely Report Both Impact, Action
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. When it involves climate change coverage, viewers don’t always get the complete picture from U.S. network television, according to a University of Michigan study. Major networks—ABC, CBS and NBC—show the impact or actions taken in climate change stories, but rarely combine the components in the same[Read More…]
IPCC Starts Meeting to Finalize Working Group II Report
YOKOHAMA, Japan—(ENEWPSF)–25 March, 2014. Government representatives and scientists on Tuesday opened a five-day meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to finalize a report assessing the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems, options for adaptation, and the interactions among climate changes, other stresses on societies,[Read More…]
NRDC: EPA Rescues Streams, Wetlands from Clean Water Limbo
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014–The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today proposed rules to restore Clean Water Act protections to streams and wetlands whose status had been thrown into question by court rulings and Bush administration actions. Following public comment, these rules will ensure that protections against[Read More…]
Air Pollution is Killing Millions around the World, says World Health Organization
NRDC’s Beinecke Calls for “Immediate and More Vigorous Actions to Limit Toxic Brew’’ WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014 – An estimated seven million people around the world in 2012 died prematurely as a result of air pollution– making dirty air the largest single environmental health risk we face, the World Health Organization[Read More…]
NJ Court: Gov. Christie Illegally Repealed Climate Change Pollution Rules
TRENTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014—A New Jersey court ruled this morning that the Christie Administration broke the law when it excused power plants from complying with regulations limiting dangerous climate-changing pollution. “Today’s court decision—together with the substantial economic, environmental and public health benefits the program has demonstrated in neighboring states—should compel New[Read More…]
