SACRAMENTO–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015 – By the end of the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown will announce his decision on legislation by Sen. Jerry Hill that sets the strictest limits in the U.S. on the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in meat production. The bill will help protect the efficacy of[Read More…]
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Center for American Progress Launches National Grassroots Effort to Raise Awareness for Nutrition Assistance Programs
Grapes are served during preschool lunch at the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware, 2009. Source: AP/Steve Ruark Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. The Center for American Progress—along with its partners Witnesses to Hunger, the Coalition on Human Needs, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the[Read More…]
California Report Finds ‘Systemic Problems’ in Oversight of L.A.-area Oil Wells
Oil Regulators Permitted Underground Injection Wells Before Assessing Water Pollution Threats LOS ANGELES—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. California oil regulators today released a report that found “systemic problems” in the state’s regulation of oil industry underground injection in the Los Angeles area. The report admits that oil companies have been allowed to[Read More…]
Governor Brown Signs Historic Legislation Banning Polluting Plastic Microbeads From Beauty Products in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. California Gov. Jerry Brown today signed into law Assembly Bill 888, phasing out the use of plastic microbeads in beauty products by 2020. Importantly, the new law closes a loophole in microbead bans passed in other states, including Indiana and New Jersey, allowing companies to replace[Read More…]
Lawsuit Filed to Protect People, Wildlife From Toxic Soot Pollution in California, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Utah
SAN FRANCISCO—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. The Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health and Neighbors for Clean Air sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to enforce air quality standards that limit dangerous particulate pollution from coal-fired power plants, cars and other sources. Today’s lawsuit seeks to force the[Read More…]
Rep. Schakowsky and Sen. Feinstein Introduce Health Insurance Rate Review Legislation
WASHINGTON D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. Rep. Jan Schakowsky today introduced the Health Insurance Rate Review Act of 2015 to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to block or modify unreasonable health insurance premium increases in states where insurance regulators lack the authority to do so. Senator Dianne Feinstein[Read More…]
Study: Patients Substitute Cannabis For Booze, Prescription Drugs
Victoria, Canada–(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. Patients who possess legal access to cannabis frequently substitute it in place of alcohol and prescription drugs, according to survey data published online in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review. Investigators from the University of Victoria in British Columbia assessed the influence of medical marijuana access[Read More…]
IBD Patients Likely To Report Using Cannabis
Philadelphia, PA–(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. Subjects with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) are more likely to have used cannabis as compared to matched controls, according to an evaluation of population data published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Investigators at Temple University assessed marijuana use patterns among two million subjects with[Read More…]
New NIH Breast Cancer Research to Focus on Prevention
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. A new phase of the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP), focused on prevention, is being launched at the National Institutes of Health. Grant-funded researchers will now work across scientific disciplines, involve new racially and ethnically diverse communities, and expand the study of risk[Read More…]
Launches National Grassroots Effort to Raise Awareness for Nutrition Assistance Programs
Grapes are served during preschool lunch at the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware, 2009. Source: AP/Steve Ruark Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. The Center for American Progress—along with its partners Witnesses to Hunger, the Coalition on Human Needs, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the[Read More…]
