NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) approved a compromise bill on NSA reforms that was unanimously approved yesterday by the House Judiciary Committee. The bill combines aspects of the USA FREEDOM Act and a more conservative NSA reform bill originating in the HPSCI.[Read More…]
Opinion
Center for American Progress on Gun Provisions in House Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Today, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Arkadi Gerney issued the following statement after the House Committee on Appropriations voted to advance and fund an important program to improve gun background checks while also extending restrictions that undermine law enforcement efforts to combat gun trafficking. The[Read More…]
150 Americans Die Each Day Due to Workplace Injury or Disease According to New Report
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014– According to a report released today by the AFL-CIO, 4,628 workers were killed in the United States during 2012 due to workplace injuries. Additionally an estimated 50,000 died from occupational diseases, resulting in a loss of nearly 150 workers each day from preventable workplace conditions. “A[Read More…]
Reducing Poverty Through Climate Action
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Today, the Center for American Progress and Climate Advisers released a new report that assesses the challenges of poverty and climate change and identifies opportunities to jointly tackle these challenges. Countries around the world have a tremendous opportunity to design a new global development agenda when[Read More…]
New Report Recommends Federal Action to Address Pervasive Profiling, Punishment, and Imprisonment of LGBT People and People Living with HIV
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, people and people living with HIV, or PLWH, face sweeping discrimination at all stages of the criminal legal system—including policing, adjudication, and incarceration—according to a new report published by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law[Read More…]
US: A Nation Behind Bars
Reform Excessively Harsh Criminal Sentences Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. Far too many US laws violate basic principles of justice by requiring disproportionately severe punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 36-page report, “Nation Behind Bars: A Human Rights Solution,” notes that laws requiring penalties that are[Read More…]
Nobel Prize Economists Call for New Approach to Failed Drug War in New London School of Economics IDEAS Report
LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–6 May 2014. Five Nobel Prize economists call for an end to the ‘war on drugs’ in a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Ending the Drug Wars: Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy outlines the enormous negative[Read More…]
Sierra Club statement on the release of the National Climate Assessment
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. Today, a national committee of experts in agriculture, climate science, commerce, and disaster relief released its National Climate Assessment (NCA). The report is the nation’s foremost comprehensive, peer-reviewed analysis of the impacts of climate disruption, showing us the effects of climate change in individual states and[Read More…]
BP Spill Bird Death Toll Estimates: Audubon Comments on New Study
Reacting to New Peer-Reviewed Study, Audubon Says Total Deaths Likely in Seven Figures New York–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. A new peer-reviewed study estimates 600,000-800,000 coastal waterbirds were killed in the first three months of the 2010 BP oil disaster, The New York Times reports today (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/science/still-counting-gulf-spills-dead-birds.html?ref=science). The study estimates only a[Read More…]
Earthjustice Statement on the Release of the Third National Climate Assessment
The third National Climate Assessment released today highlights the effects of climate change across our nation, and concludes that we are not prepared for the significant risks posed by our rapidly changing climate Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 6, 2014. The third National Climate Assessment released today highlights the effects of climate change[Read More…]
