New York, NY-(ENEWSPF)- The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta (Egypt): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the three terrorist attacks on 11 May in Baghdad, which resulted in the deaths of at least 93 people, as well as many[Read More…]
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Donald Trump’s ‘States’ Rights’ Policy Assertion on Transgender Students Dangerous, Reckless
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, released the following statement after Donald Trump declined this morning to support the Obama Administration’s important announcement that school districts should ensure that transgender students are treated with dignity and allowed equal access to[Read More…]
California Announces Plan to Allow Oil Industry to Pollute More Underground Water
New U.S. EPA Letter Raises Questions About Brown Administration’s Efforts to Approve Oil Waste Disposal Into Aquifers Sacramento, CA-(ENEWSPF)- California oil regulators today proposed exempting another underground water source from protection under state and federal laws. If approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the proposed “aquifer exemption” would allow the[Read More…]
130,000 Call on Olive Garden to Adopt Ethical ‘Good Food’ Practices
Demonstrations Across Country Urge Company to Improve Treatment of Workers, Animals, Environment Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Advocates across the United States are demonstrating at Olive Garden restaurants today to urge the chain and its parent company, Darden Restaurant Inc. to improve food-sourcing and labor practices. The demonstrations are taking place in New York[Read More…]
USW Applauds OSHA’s Rule Improving the Tracking of Workplace Illnesses and Injuries
Pittsburgh, PA-(ENEWSPF)- The United Steelworkers (USW) today praised the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announcement of a final rule revising the current regulation on its injury and illness record-keeping requirements. Under the revised rule, all employers must submit illness and injury reports electronically, with a frequency dependent on the size[Read More…]
ACLU Files Discrimination Charges Against Frontier Airlines On Behalf Of Breast-Feeding Pilots
Denver, CO-(ENEWSPF)- The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Colorado, and the law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP today filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of four female Frontier Airlines pilots who claim that the company’s policies discriminate against women by failing to provide[Read More…]
ACLU And Lambda Legal Support DoJ Lawsuit Against North Carolina Anti-LGBT Law
Raleigh, N.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against North Carolina and Gov. Pat McCrory challenging House Bill 2, a law that removes local legal protections for LGBT people and prohibits transgender people from using public facilities that correspond to their gender identity. Earlier today, McCrory had filed a lawsuit[Read More…]
$15,000 Reward for Men Who Vandalized Death Valley, Caused Death of Rare Pupfish
Los Angeles, CA-(ENEWSPF)- The Center for Biological Diversity today tripled the reward to $15,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case of three men whose drunken spree led to the death of a tiny endangered fish in Death Valley National Park on April 30. “Devil’s Hole pupfish[Read More…]
White House Daily Press Briefing by the Press Secretary, 5/9/2016
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:15 P.M. EDT MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Monday. Before we get started I wanted to just bring to your attention a statement that was issued today by the National Governors Association. So the NGA is a bipartisan organization that represents[Read More…]
Obama To Be First US President To Visit Hiroshima
Statement by the Press Secretary on the President’s Travel to Vietnam and Japan Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The President will travel to Vietnam and Japan May 21-28, on what will be his tenth trip to Asia. This trip will highlight the President’s ongoing commitment to the U.S. Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific,[Read More…]
