Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 20, 2014. While President Barack Obama finalizes plans to take executive action on immigration and provide relief to a portion of the nation’s undocumented immigrant population, enforcement overdrive and paltry resources for the immigration court system have caused a significant backlog of cases waiting to be heard. New[Read More…]
Opinion
Open Letter to Oregon District Attorneys: Criminal Justice Advocates and Leaders Call Upon You to Start Now on Implementing Important Drug Policy Reforms
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—November 20, 2014. Although Oregon voters passed Measure 91 with a 12-point margin, implementation of this better, smarter approach to marijuana policy will not be complete until the first half of 2016. We don’t have to wait until then to start to mitigate the damage done by decades of criminalization, wasted law enforcement time and squandered taxpayer[Read More…]
NRDC: Senate Rejects Bid to Force Approval of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014 – Despite strong lobbying by oil-industry allies, the U.S. Senate tonight defeated an effort to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The bill would have turned Congress into a permitting authority,[Read More…]
Sierra Club Statement on Senate’s Rejection of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. Tonight, legislation to advance approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline failed to gather sixty votes in the Senate. In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement: “We applaud the Senators who stood up for the health of our families and[Read More…]
350.0rg: Keystone XL Bill Defeated in the Senate
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014. In response to a vote in the United States Senate on the Keystone XL pipeline, 350.org Executive Director May Boeve issued the following statement: “Once again, Congress tried to play games with our future–and failed. Since Keystone XL has always been President Obama’s decision, this vote[Read More…]
Council on American-Islamic Relations Condemns Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue
WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem that left four worshipers dead, including three Rabbis with American citizenship. In a statement, CAIR said: “We condemn this and any[Read More…]
ACLU Urges Senate to Move Forward with NSA Reform Bill
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014. Today, the Senate will vote on whether to move forward with consideration of the USA Freedom Act, a bipartisan reform bill to rein in the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records and metadata under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. This bill would[Read More…]
What Were They Thinking? Massachusetts Town Tries to Ban Tobacco
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014. A small town in Massachusetts made national news recently when the local health board moved to make Westminster, Mass. the first place in the country where no one could buy cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco. You can predict the rationale behind the proposed tobacco ban.[Read More…]
R&D Cost Estimates: Doctors Without Borders Response to Tufts CSDD Study on Cost to Develop a New Drug
An MDR-TB patient receiving treatment at an MSF facility in Swaziland shows some of the drugs that are part of her regimen. Sven Torfinn NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. “The pharmaceutical industry-supported Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development claims it costs US$2.56 billion to develop a new drug today;[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Brief Outlines Three Most Likely Outcomes of Nuclear Talks with Iran and Their Impacts
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. After a four-month extension, the latest round of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program is scheduled to conclude on November 24. The outcome of these negotiations is still an open question, but in anticipation of the deadline, the Center for American Progress has released an issue[Read More…]
