Dangerously low sardine populations, starving sea lions, brown pelicans now have a chance Thousands of starving sea lions have washed up on California shores due to sardine overfishing. NOAA Fisheries / West Coast San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015. Late Wednesday afternoon, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to close[Read More…]
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Agricultural Insecticides Exceed Regulatory Limits in Surface Water on Global Scale
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015. According to a new study, regulatory limits for insecticides are exceeded in over half of contaminated water samples collected from around the world. The study was based on a review of more than 800 studies conducted in 73 countries over the past five decades and is[Read More…]
Friends of the Earth Asks Obama’s Professor to Reveal Payments from Peabody Energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—April 16, 2015. Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica, sent a letter to Professor Laurence Tribe requesting that he disclose the full terms of any agreement he has with Peabody Energy. The nation’s largest coal company recently hired Tribe — a Harvard University constitutional law professor who[Read More…]
250 Native Elk Die Inside Fenced-in Area at Point Reyes National Seashore
Despite High Mortality, Park Service Considering Plan to Remove or Fence Free-roaming Elk at Behest of Ranchers POINT REYES, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–April 16, 2015. The National Park Service has acknowledged that that more than 250 tule elk died inside the fenced Pierce Point Elk Preserve at California’s Point Reyes National Seashore from[Read More…]
FDA Approves Corlanor to Treat Heart Failure
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2015. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Corlanor (ivabradine) to reduce hospitalization from worsening heart failure. Corlanor is approved for use in certain people who have long-lasting (chronic) heart failure caused by the lower-left part of their heart not contracting well. The drug is[Read More…]
Bipartisan Coalition Introduce Bill to Support 9/11 First Responders with Vital Health Programs
Bill Would Reauthorize Health Programs for 9/11 Responders and Survivors; 170 Illinoisans Currently Enrolled in World Trade Center Health Program WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2015. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) today, along with U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), introduced the James Zadroga 9/11 Health[Read More…]
HHS to Probe Skyrocketing Generic Drug Prices
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2015 – At the urging of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general has agreed to investigate how sudden price hikes by generic drug makers are driving up the cost of taxpayer-supported health care. “It is unacceptable[Read More…]
Senators Durbin, Blumenthal ‘Troubled’ By FDA Inaction On Mislabeled Supplements
Senators call for investigation into companies that manufacture products containing synthetic stimulant routinely advertised as a “natural botanical” WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2015. U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate manufacturers of dietary supplements containing “acacia rigidula”[Read More…]
Interior Department Releases Proposed Well Control Regulations to Ensure Safe and Responsible Offshore Oil and Gas Development
Result of extensive consultation, evaluation after Deepwater Horizon WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2015. In response to the findings of investigations into the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, and following a thorough evaluation of recommendations from industry groups, equipment manufacturers, federal agencies, academia and environmental organizations, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell yesterday announced[Read More…]
Dangerous Abortion Restriction Signed by Oklahoma Governor
Similar bill was signed into law in Kansas, as part of broader agenda to ban abortion New York, NY —(ENEWSPF)—April 14, 2015. A bill targeting one of the safest and most common methods of abortion — which could restrict access to abortion for many women after 13 weeks in pregnancy[Read More…]
