Ventura County Firefighters Racing to Prevent Oil Seeping into the Pacific Ocean Ventura, CA — (ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016. At 5:30 am this morning, a leak in a pipeline in Hall Canyon, California was reported. According to reports thus far, as many as 29,000 gallons of crude oil has been spilled.[Read More…]
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Senate Proposal Threatens to Roll Back Forest Safeguards and Authorize Harmful Logging Activities
The Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee is weighing a proposed bill which discounts NEPA and could have detrimental consequences to our nation’s forest system The Tongass National Forest, Alaska. Earleliason/iStock Photo Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016. A Senate panel heard testimony today on a draft of the “Wildfire Budgeting,[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending June 18, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016 SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending June 18, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 259,000, a decrease of 18,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 277,000. The 4-week moving average was 267,000, a decrease of 2,250 from the previous week’s unrevised[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Responds to 2016 Social Security Trust Funds Report
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016. Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Christian E. Weller made the following statement today about the 2016 annual report issued by the Social Security Board of Trustees: Today’s Social Security trustees report once again highlights the program’s strength in providing basic income guarantees to retired[Read More…]
DoD Identifies Navy Casualty, June 22, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016. The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew J. Clement, 38, of Massachusetts, died June 21 of a non-combat related injury while deployed to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. The incident is under investigation.[Read More…]
Detainee Transfer Announced, June 22, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016. The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Montenegro. On Dec. 5, 2014, a Periodic Review Board consisting of representatives from the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security,[Read More…]
Unprecedented Offshore Fracking Threatens Alaska’s Endangered Belugas
Federal Officials Urged to Halt Oil Company’s Dangerous Plan to Frack Cook Inlet ANCHORAGE, Alaska—(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016. The Center for Biological Diversity today urged federal officials to block an oil company’s plans to drill multiple new wells and conduct the first large, multistage offshore fracking ever done in Alaska’s environmentally[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Immigration Ruling
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016. In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today deadlocked in the case of United States v. Texas. It left in place a lower court order preventing the president from shielding millions of people from deportation via the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program.[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Supreme Court Fisher Ruling
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016. In a 4-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin. The ruling means the school will be able to continue using race as one of multiple factors in admissions decisions. The American Civil Liberties[Read More…]
Court Affirms Public Hospitals Must Comply with Reproductive Privacy Act
SEATTLE —(ENEWSPF)–June 22, 2016. Public hospitals in Washington that provide maternity services must also provide abortions, according to a Skagit Valley Superior Court decision released yesterday. The decision came in a lawsuit (Coffey v. Public Health District No. 1) filed by the ACLU of Washington on behalf of Kevan Coffey,[Read More…]
