Mobile app helps workers stay safe in hot weather Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2017. An updated app for smart phones and other mobile devices can help workers stay safe when working outdoors in hot weather. The free app was redesigned by CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), along[Read More…]
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FDA Expands Use of Sapien 3 Artificial Heart Valve for High-risk Patients
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2017. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved an expanded indication for the Sapien 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) for patients with symptomatic heart disease due to failure of a previously placed bioprosthetic aortic or mitral valve whose risk of death or severe complications from[Read More…]
Maine Legislators Consider Bill to Pilot Safer Drug Use Facilities to Address Ongoing Opioid Crisis
Augusta, ME –(ENEWSPF)—June 5, 2017. The end of 2016 saw record high drug overdose deaths for the 3rd year running and the announcement that Maine had the 5th highest rate of acute hepatitis C in the nation, largely transmitted through use of injection drugs. Faced with these facts legislators have[Read More…]
Hubble’s Tale of Two Exoplanets: Nature vs. Nurture
STScI-(ENEWSPF)- Is it a case of nature versus nurture when it comes to two “cousin” exoplanets? In a unique experiment, scientists used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to study two “hot Jupiter” exoplanets. Because these planets are virtually the same size and temperature, and orbit around nearly identical stars at the[Read More…]
UN Ocean Conference Opens with Calls for United Action to Reverse Human Damage
Fishermen at work in Evia, Greece (January 1973). UN Photo/Tsagris NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–5 June 2017 – Opening a “game-changing” international conference on the health of the world’s oceans and seas, top United Nations officials today urged coordinated global action to protect the planet. Speaking in the UN General Assembly Hall, Secretary-General[Read More…]
NOAA Seeks Public Comments on Proposals for Atlantic Geophysical Survey Interaction with Marine Mammals
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2017. NOAA Fisheries is seeking public comment on proposals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act that would allow companies that are proposing to conduct geophysical surveys in the Atlantic Ocean using seismic air guns to incidentally, but not intentionally, harass marine mammals. The agency is proposing to[Read More…]
Sierra Club Sues to Protect Key Safeguards to Limit Methane Pollution
Methane Filing Marks First Lawsuit Brought Against Trump Administration for Attempting to Suspend Climate Pollution Standards Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2017. Today, less than a week after Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement, the Sierra Club and its allies filed a lawsuit to block[Read More…]
Trump Officials Push for Atlantic Oil Exploration Using Harmful Seismic Blasting
Permits Would Hurt Endangered Whales, Open Way to Offshore Drilling Opposed by East Coast Communities WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2017. The Trump administration today issued draft authorizations to five companies to search for oil off the Atlantic Coast — from Florida to Delaware — using loud seismic airgun blasts that hurt whales,[Read More…]
U.S. State Department Issues Hurricane and Typhoon Season 2017 Travel Alert
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2017. The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the Hurricane and Typhoon Seasons in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane and Typhoon Season will last through November 2017, though most tropical cyclones typically develop between May and October. The National[Read More…]
White House to Warming World: Bake On
President Trump needlessly backs out of the most important climate plan the world has ever seen. WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2017. “Scrapping the Paris climate agreement is an abdication of American leadership in the fight against the biggest threat facing people and birds,” said David Yarnold (@david_yarnold), Audubon’s president and CEO, in[Read More…]
