Yet, the “drug-crazed black person” myth continues to be revitalized decade after decade by racists masquerading as public servants. The level of THC in Sandra Bland’s system is negligible and is equal to placebo. NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015. By: Dr. Carl Hart Was Sandra Bland under the influence of marijuana,[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Action Against Mortgage Payment Company And Servicer For Deceptive Ads
Consumers Deceived by “Equity Accelerator” Claims to Receive $33.4 Million Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action today against Paymap Inc. and LoanCare, LLC for deceiving consumers with advertisements for a mortgage payment program that promised tens of thousands of dollars in interest savings[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Introduces Transit Oriented Development Reform Ordinance to Accelerate Development Near Public Transportation Stations
Reform Would Add More Than $400 Million to Local Economy Annually CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Mayor Emanuel announced yesterday that he will be introducing at the July 29 City Council meeting a transit oriented development (TOD) reform ordinance that would create incentives for more development near Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and[Read More…]
Food & Water Watch Calls on SEC to Reject GMO Salmon Stock Filings
AquaBounty Misleads Investors in Efforts to Join NASDAQ Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Food & Water Watch called on the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) today to reject the stock registration filings of AquaBounty Technologies (ABTX), the maker of genetically engineered salmon, based on misleading and erroneous claims the company is making[Read More…]
Groups Sue EPA over Faulty Approval of Nanotechnology Pesticide
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to conditionally approve the antimicrobial nanosilver pesticide product “NSPW-L30SS” (previously “Nanosilva”) for use in an unknown number of[Read More…]
EPA Report to Congress: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is Accelerating Great Lakes Cleanup and Protection
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015 – During its first five years, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative implemented more than 2500 projects to improve water quality, clean up contaminated shoreline, protect and restore native habitat and species and prevent and control invasive species in the Great Lakes. That work, which began in 2010,[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Professor Named to Juvenile Justice School Board
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Heather Dalmage, sociology professor and director of Roosevelt’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, has been appointed to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice School District 428 Board of Education. An expert on race, education and family and as director of the Mansfield Institute, Dalmage[Read More…]
Illegal Oil and Gas Leases Once Again Threaten the Badger Two-Medicine, Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness
Blackfeet Tribe and others call for the cancellation of the leases Two Medicine River from the Hall Creek trail. Photo provided by Gene Sentz Browning, MT —(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C. ruled today on a Louisiana oilman’s bid to drill for natural gas[Read More…]
Groups Demand Rejection of Anti-climate Provision in Customs Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015. As Congress prepares to go to conference to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, a coalition of environmental and fair trade organizations are protesting the inclusion of language in the House version of the[Read More…]
Analysis: Republican Attacks on Endangered Species Up 600 Percent Per Year
Unprecedented Assault Undermines Landmark Law Protecting America’s Most Vulnerable Animals, Plants WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Over the past five years, Republicans in Congress have launched 164 attacks on the Endangered Species Act — a 600 percent increase in the rate of annual attacks over the previous 15 years, according to a[Read More…]
