A giant logo of the German car manufacturer Volkswagen is pictured on top of a company’s factory building in Wolfsburg, Germany, September 2015. Source: AP/Michael Sohn Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2016.  With the investigation into Volkswagen’s alleged use of a cheat device to circumvent Clean Air Act regulations continuing[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2016.  Regional and state unemployment rates were little changed in February. Twenty-two states had unemployment rate decreases from January, 8 states had increases, and 20 states and the District of Columbia had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-seven states and the District[Read More…]

Report from Sierra Club Virginia Chapter and Center for Media and Democracy unveils ALEC’s attempts to delay action on climate change and reveals legislative polluter ties RICHMOND, VA –(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2016.  Today, the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter and the Center for Media and Democracy released AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC)[Read More…]

2015 recoveries for state pension systems brings total pension recoveries by Madigan to over $400 million Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2016.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced her office collected $983,282,519 in revenue on behalf of the state through litigation and collection efforts in 2015. “I am committed to continuing my[Read More…]

 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. –(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2016. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday campaigned in Idaho, Utah and Arizona drawing big crowds to rallies as a new national poll gave him a whopping 20-point lead over Republican front-runner Donald Trump. A new CNN/ORC poll found that if Sanders becomes the Democratic Party[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2016.  The Justice Department today revealed new data from its innovative Smart on Crime Initiative that show charging decisions by federal prosecutors in fiscal year 2015 resulted in prosecutors’ focusing on more serious drug cases and fewer indictments carrying a mandatory minimum.  Meanwhile, prosecutions of high-level drug defendants have risen and cooperation and plea rates remained effectively[Read More…]

“There is no evidence of a differential increase in past-month marijuana use in youth that can be attributed to state medical marijuana laws” New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2016.  The enactment of state laws permitting physicians to authorize cannabis therapy to qualified patients has not stimulated increases in marijuana use by[Read More…]

Baltimore, MD–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2016. Cannabis-influenced driving performance is significantly different than alcohol-induced driving behavior, according to driving simulator data published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology. Investigators with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Iowa evaluated simulated driving performance in subjects following their consumption of vaporized[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 18, 2016. Unemployment rates were lower in January than a year earlier in 333 of the 387 metropolitan areas, higher in 43 areas, and unchanged in 11 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Six areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent, and 12[Read More…]

Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–March 17, 2016.  Official counts of homicides by police seriously undercount incidents, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, but a relatively new national data system, currently in use in 32 states, could be a crucial tool for gathering more comprehensive information, say[Read More…]