CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. As tax season begins, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today encouraged employers and mass transit commuters to take full advantage of a tax benefit that was strengthened and permanently extended by Congress late last year. The tax-free benefit could yield $1,000 annually in federal and state tax[Read More…]
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Bernie Sanders Blasts Corporate Deserters
AMES, Iowa – (ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday denounced “corporate deserters” after Johnson Controls and Tyco International announced a plan to merge the manufacturing giants in the latest example of a U.S.-based company acquiring a foreign firm to avoid paying U.S. taxes. “The potential Johnson-Tyco[Read More…]
National Forest in Arizona Challenged to Protect Wildlife from Motorized Uses
Suit Filed to Stop Excessive Cross-Country Travel by Motor Vehicles PHOENIX, Ariz. –(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. Four conservation groups, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, filed suit today against the Kaibab National Forest in Arizona, aiming to protect wildlife and cultural resources from motorized cross-country travel. At issue are[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders: Yemen Health Facilities Under Attack, Severely Limiting Access to Care
Destruction wrought by airstrikes in Haydan, where an MSF-supported hospital was badly damaged by attacks in October. BARCELONA/NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–JANUARY 25, 2016 — The conflict in Yemen is being waged with total disregard for the rules of war, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) declared today,[Read More…]
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Review One of the Most Extreme Abortion Bans in the Nation
North Dakota’s ban on abortion as early as 6 weeks of pregnancy to remain permanently blocked. Order comes two months after Supreme Court agrees to review Texas’ deceptive clinic shutdown law, less than one week after Court refuses to review Arkansas’ ban on abortion at 12 weeks Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 25,[Read More…]
Rapid, Affordable Energy Transformation Possible
NOAA, CIRES study: Wind, sun could eclipse fossil fuels for electric power by 2030 A high-resolution map based on NOAA weather data shows a snapshot of wind energy potential across the United States in 2012. (Credit: Image by Chris Clack/CIRES) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. The United States could slash greenhouse[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Supreme Court’s Demand Response Decision a Major Win for Consumers, Public Health, Clean Energy Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a key building block of America’s clean energy economy today by finding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has the authority to regulate demand response payments in wholesale energy markets run by regional grid operators. Demand response[Read More…]
Earthjustice: Supreme Court Ruling a Win for Clean Energy
Victory: Decision helps reduce barriers to critical clean energy resource, reducing rates and enhancing grid reliability The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Architect of the Capitol Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that ensures that a critically important clean energy resource[Read More…]
Monsanto Sues to Keep Glyphosate off California List of Carcinogens
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016. Monsanto filed a lawsuit in California last week seeking to prevent glyphosate, the main ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, from being added to California’s list of known carcinogens under the state’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65). Glyphosate is classified as a probable carcinogen[Read More…]
Governors State University Seeks Applications for High School Theatre Collaborative
University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2016 – Governors State University seeks applications for its Theatre & Performance Studies (T.A.P.S.) High School Theatre Collaborative (HSTC). The Collaborative, under the direction of the GSU’s Division of Communication, Visual and Performing Arts and its Theatre and Performance Studies program aims to produce inspiring theatre that[Read More…]
