WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. The Obama administration today released its proposed 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The proposal keeps dirty fuel development off-limits along the Pacific and Northern Atlantic coasts, as well as in some areas of the Arctic Ocean, while opening up new areas off[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Center for American Progress Analysis Shows High Levels of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports Could Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. With Congress poised to consider legislation to expedite exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, the Center for American Progress released a new analysis of the potential impact of high levels of LNG exports on consumers’ natural gas bills in regions across the country. In[Read More…]
New Reforms: Former Church Committee Staff Members Recommend Key Changes to Intelligence Oversight
New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Today, on the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Church Committee, 17 former Church Committee staff members put forward key reforms to help Congress rein in intelligence abuses and repair weakened oversight structures in a new report out today. “The 40th anniversary of the[Read More…]
CDC Reports Deficiencies in Farmworker Protection from Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. In evaluating a farmworker poisoning incident in Washington State last year, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report identifies “at least three potential occupational hazards in agriculture: off-target pesticide drift, toxicity of some recently marketed pesticides, and a gap in worker notification requirements.” The report[Read More…]
Progressive Coalition Encourages EPA to Mandate Strong GHG Reductions from Power Plants by 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. 28 local, state and national public interest groups from the Climate Reality Check network submitted a letter to Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe for the Office of Air and Radiation in the Environmental Protection Agency. The letter urges her to require that states make significant greenhouse gas[Read More…]
Monarch Numbers Up Slightly, But Butterfly Still at Risk of Extinction
Favorable Weather Boosts Population But Pesticides Still Threaten Butterfly’s Chance of Survival WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. The annual overwintering count of monarch butterflies released today shows a modest population rebound from last year’s lowest-ever count of 34 million butterflies, but is still the second lowest population count since surveys began in[Read More…]
Groups Petition to Reclassify Gray Wolves to Threatened Status Under Endangered Species Act
Proposal Presents Reasonable Alternative to Congressional Delisting, Path to National Recovery WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Animal protection and conservation organizations petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to reclassify gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act as threatened throughout the contiguous United States, with the exception of the Mexican gray[Read More…]
Not Guilty Verdict in Murder of Costa Rican Sea Turtle Conservationist Jairo Mora Provokes International Outrage
Judges Blame Botched Investigation, Handling of Evidence SAN JOSE, Costa Rica—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Seven men arrested in the brutal murder of Costa Rican conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval and the kidnapping and sexual assault of four women, including one American, on the night of May 31, 2013 were found not guilty[Read More…]
Mexican National Sentenced to 15 Years for Participating in a Brutal Family Run Sex Trafficking Organization
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 26, 2015. The Department of Justice today announced a sentencing and guilty plea for two members of a family run sex trafficking organization based in southern Florida. Rafael Alberto Cadena-Sosa was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joes E. Martinez to serve 15 years in prison and Carmen[Read More…]
Former CIA Officer Convicted For Unauthorized Disclosure of National Defense Information and Obstruction of Justice
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 26, 2015. A former CIA officer was convicted today by a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, of illegally disclosing national defense information and obstructing justice. Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director James B. Comey, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S.[Read More…]
