NEW YORK –-(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today reversed the district court rulings of six cases from Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee and Kentucky. In each of these states, a federal judge had ruled in favor of marriage for same-sex couples and all six rulings[Read More…]
Opinion
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Calls for Executive Action on Immigration
Joins allies at National Press Club to Urge Pres. Obama to Seize the Moment Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014. The President needs to take executive action to support immigrant rights. But he also needs to take action on immigration to ensure the rights of all of us. You see, in[Read More…]
Chicken Imports from China a Raw Deal for U.S. Consumers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter “In a post election surprise, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced yesterday that the People’s Republic of China had completed the necessary paperwork to certify four of its poultry processing plants to be able[Read More…]
New Report: Inconsistent Marriage Laws Cost Businesses $1.3 Billion Annually
SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014 — Today Freedom to Marry and Out & Equal Workplace Advocates released a new report estimating that the remaining patchwork of marriage laws for same-sex couples across the United States costs businesses in the private sector $1.3 billion every year. Over the next five years, the private sector[Read More…]
NRDC Report Exposes Big Oil’s Smoke and Mirror Tactics
Front Groups & Extensive Spending Aimed at Curbing California’s Clean Energy Action SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–November 6, 2014 – Major oil companies are propping up at least eight front groups in a last-ditch campaign to subvert California’s climate action law requiring them to pay for their carbon pollution beginning in January 2015,[Read More…]
A First Look at the Fossil-Fuel and Anti-Environment Agenda of the Next Congress
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2014. A new analysis released today by the Center for American Progress examines how massive political spending by the Koch brothers and other special interests in yesterday’s election will guide an aggressive fossil-fuel and anti-environment agenda in the next Congress. Although media coverage has largely focused[Read More…]
Center for Constitutional Rights Outraged by ICC Refusal to Investigate Israel War Crimes in Flotilla Attack that Left Nine Dead
New York –(ENEWSPF)—November 6, 2014. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following response to the news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) would not be opening a full investigation into the 2010 Israeli attack on a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza. Israeli forces killed nine people, including 18-year-old U.S.[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood: Oklahoma Supreme Court Protects Access to Safe, Legal Abortion
“We have seen the devastating impact of these restrictions,” says Planned Parenthood Oklahoma City –(ENEWSPF)—November 4, 2014. Today, the Oklahoma State Supreme Court, in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), temporarily blocked an Oklahoma law requiring physicians to have admitting privileges at a local hospital that was[Read More…]
NRDC: Consumers Need Accurate Fuel Efficiency Data
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 3, 2014—Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia today agreed to pay a record $100 million in fines to settle charges by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that they cheated consumers by overstating the fuel economy of some of their most popular cars sold in the United States. Luke Tonachel, senior[Read More…]
IPCC Report is Roadmap for Collective Action to Curb Climate Change, NRDC Says
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 2, 2014 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is scheduled on Sunday to release its “synthesis report” documenting the expert consensus on climate change and its growing impacts around the world. The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “This[Read More…]
