Improved model, new surge forecast products and research projects debuted NOAA satellite image of Hurricane Arthur, July 3, 2014. (Credit: NOAA.) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. The Atlantic hurricane season will officially end November 30, and will be remembered as a relatively quiet season as was predicted. Still, the season afforded[Read More…]
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FSIS Officials Supported Immigration Reform for Chinese Poultry in 2006
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter: “Documents inadvertently released by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) last week reveal that there is conclusive evidence that USDA was very close to approving the importation of Chinese poultry raised and slaughtered in that[Read More…]
Dept. of Interior to Auction More Than 742,000 Acres Offshore Massachusetts for Wind Energy Development
WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. As part of President Obama’s comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced[Read More…]
Create Your Family Health Portrait on Thanksgiving: National Family Health History Day 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. Acting Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak, M.D., M.P.H. today declared this Thanksgiving day, November 27, as the eleventh annual Family Health History Day. Over the holiday or at other times when families gather, Americans are encouraged to talk about and keep a record of the health[Read More…]
Brain Abnormality Found in Group of SIDS Cases
NIH-supported researchers find abnormality in brain area influencing breathing, heart functions Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. More than 40 percent of infants in a group who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were found to have an abnormality in a key part of the brain, researchers report. The abnormality affects[Read More…]
Brain Abnormality Found in Group of SIDS Cases
NIH-supported researchers find abnormality in brain area influencing breathing, heart functions Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. More than 40 percent of infants in a group who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were found to have an abnormality in a key part of the brain, researchers report. The abnormality affects[Read More…]
Coalition Steps in to Defend Maui Residents from Pesticides and GE Contamination
Files to protect citizen-approved GE crop moratorium and impact study ordinance Pgiam / iStockphoto Honolulu, HI —(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. A coalition of Maui and Molokaʻi residents, farmers, and public interest groups, represented by Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Earthjustice, has filed papers in Honolulu federal district court to defend[Read More…]
With Some Bee Protective Suggestions, Oregon Task Force Fails to Focus on Neonics
Washington,DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. Last Wednesday, a special Task Force on Pollinator Health in Oregon delivered a series of recommendations to the Oregon legislature on how to help the state’s honey bees, native bees, and other pollinators,but failed to address the clear threat that neonicotinoid insecticides pose to pollinators. Because the[Read More…]
Public Excluded, Industry Invited to North Carolina Oil Drilling Meeting
WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. A coalition of fifteen environmental and public interest groups expressed serious objections to President Obama’s closed-door meeting to discuss energy exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf off the mid-Atlantic coast. The meeting was convened by the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources and held[Read More…]
Feds Agree to Protect More Habitat for East Coast’s Most Endangered Whales by 2016
BOSTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 24, 2014. A deadline for expanding critical habitat protections for the North Atlantic right whale — one of the world’s most endangered whales — has been set in response to a legal settlement agreement. Each year most of the 500 North Atlantic right whales remaining on Earth migrate from[Read More…]
