Clean energy jobs overwhelm fossil fuels in 41 States and D.C. WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 27, 2017. As EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt touts a new executive order attacking the Clean Power Plan, new Sierra Club analysis of Department of Energy 2017 jobs data across the energy sector makes it clear that the[Read More…]
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Study: Regular Cannabis Use Associated With Lower BMI, No Adverse Effect On Bone Density
Portland, OR–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. Those subjects who consume cannabis more than five times per month possess, on average, lower body mass index (BMI) than do those who do not use the substance, according to data published online ahead of print in the journal Archives of Osteoporosis. Researchers at Oregon’s Health[Read More…]
Senator Duckworth, Veterans in Congress Criticize Trumpcare’s Devastating Tax Hike on Millions of Veterans
WASHINGTON, DC —(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. Today, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Tim Walz (D-MN), and several others to criticize President Trump and his Republican allies in[Read More…]
FDA Approves First Treatment for Rare Form of Skin Cancer
Source: flickr.com Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today granted accelerated approval to Bavencio (avelumab) for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients 12 years and older with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), including those who have not received prior chemotherapy. This is the first[Read More…]
Trump Administration Must Recognize that Water Security Due to Climate Change Puts Americans at Risk
Men fish in a partially dried marsh in Hor al-Hammar in southern Iraq, on March 27, 2009. AP/Hadi Mizban Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. The U.S. military, intelligence community, America’s closest allies, scientific experts, and many international organizations all count climate change as a threat multiplier with the potential to[Read More…]
Scientists Use ‘Beetlejuice Provision’ to Protect Data From Trump
Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–March 23, 2017. The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets[Read More…]
Scientists Discover Urinary Biomarker That May Help Track ALS
NIH-funded study suggests opportunity to find insights to neurological disease. Bethesda, MD-(ENEWSPF)- A study in Neurology suggests that analyzing levels of the protein p75ECD in urine samples from people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may help monitor disease progression as well as determine the effectiveness of therapies. The study was supported[Read More…]
STScI: Hubble Witnesses Massive Comet-Like Object Pollute Atmosphere of a White Dwarf
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup of a comet being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the burned-out remains of a compact star. The object has a chemical composition similar to Halley’s Comet, but it is[Read More…]
Mars Volcano Arsia Mons, Earth’s Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time
By Elizabeth Zubritsky NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland Greenbelt, MD-(ENEWSPF)- New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian shield volcano Arsia Mons produced one new lava flow at its summit every 1 to 3 million years during the final peak of activity. The last volcanic activity there[Read More…]
Tracing Aromatic Molecules in the Early Universe
By Sean Nealon RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A molecule found in car engine exhaust fumes that is thought to have contributed to the origin of life on Earth has made astronomers heavily underestimate the amount of stars that were forming in the early Universe, a University of California, Riverside-led study[Read More…]
