WASHINGTON, DC. —(ENEWSPF)—January 29, 2015. The Financial Times reported Shell’s (NYSE: RDS) annual profits for 2014, and even as oil prices came down from record highs, Shell’s 14 percent rise to $19.04 billion in profits rank it among the world’s most profitable corporations. In addition, Shell will likely receive a[Read More…]
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Study: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion Over Past Decade
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. A new analysis finds U.S. taxpayers have lost more than $1 billion over the past decade on a program that allows cows and sheep to graze on public land. Last year alone taxpayers lost $125 million in grazing subsidies on federal land. Had the federal government charged[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Shell Announces Plans for 2015 Arctic Drilling
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2015. Shell Oil announced today that it will seek drill in the Arctic Ocean this summer, despite its dismal record in the area and a number of outstanding challenges, including the fact its permits to drill in the Chukchi Sea have not been approved. The company has[Read More…]
World Report 2015: Rights Aren’t Wrong in Tough Times
Human Rights a Path Out of Crisis and Chaos Displaced people from the Yezidi sect, fleeing violence from forces linked to the extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, walk towards the Syrian border in August 2014. © 2014 Reuters Beirut –-(ENEWSPF)–January[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Myriad Genetics Settling Patent Lawsuits
NEW YORK –(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2015. American molecular diagnostic company Myriad Genetics has settled litigation seeking to enforce patents on two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The company has agreed to dismiss its claims against four laboratories and is discussing settlements with the remaining laboratories. “Patients who need[Read More…]
Northeast Blizzard: Nature + Climate Change = Worse
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2015—The massive winter storm predicted to engulf the entire Northeast is the result of a “bombogenesis,” which occurs when a storm takes on an explosive nature. Below is a statement by Robert Mera, a Union of Concerned Scientists Kendall fellow and meteorologist. “It’s a natural phenomenon—a dramatic and[Read More…]
Grassroot Support Builds For Candidates Seeking to Give Voice to Neighborhood Residents
Grassroots Illinois Action Endorses Slate of Progressive Candidates Committed to Neighborhood Investment and Democratizing Chicago Public Schools CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Today, Grassroots Illinois Action (GIA) publicly endorsed Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia for Mayor of Chicago, and twenty-three Aldermanic Candidates ready to take on Mayor Emanuel and a rubber-stamp City Council.[Read More…]
NRDC: Administration Drilling Plan Would Expose Eastern Seaboard, Atlantic and Arctic Waters to Blowout Risk
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015 — The Obama Administration proposed a five-year offshore drilling lease plan today that would expose much of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans to oil and gas production. The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Executive Director Peter Lehner made the following statement: “This takes us in exactly the wrong[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Obama Administration Releases New 5-Year Offshore Drilling Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. The Obama administration today released its proposed 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The proposal keeps dirty fuel development off-limits along the Pacific and Northern Atlantic coasts, as well as in some areas of the Arctic Ocean, while opening up new areas off[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Analysis Shows High Levels of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports Could Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. With Congress poised to consider legislation to expedite exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, the Center for American Progress released a new analysis of the potential impact of high levels of LNG exports on consumers’ natural gas bills in regions across the country. In[Read More…]
