A team of 165 Cuban medical doctors and nurses have arrived in Sierra Leone to support the Ebola response efforts. Photo: WHO/S. Gborie CUBA–(ENEWSPF)–20 October 2014 – Ebola is no longer a localized public health emergency, top UN officials said in Havana today as they commended Cuba for sending doctors[Read More…]
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Hunters and Conservationists Join Forces to Protect Imperiled Wolverines
Suit Challenges Feds’ Failure to Protect Rare Carnivore from Extinction MISSOULA, MONT.—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2014. Today, a unique coalition of conservationists, animal welfare activists, hunters, anglers, and an ecologist sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in U.S. District Court of Montana for refusing to protect rare wolverines from extinction[Read More…]
Plan to Lease Santa Fe National Forest for Oil and Gas Drilling Risks Community Health and Cultural Resources
Litigation Prepared to Challenge Illegal 20,000 Acre Public Lands Lease Santa Fe, NM—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2014. A broad coalition of local and national conservation groups announced plans to sue the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), if the agency proceeds with the sale of 13 parcels (almost 20,000 acres of public lands)[Read More…]
EPA Awards Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants to Ohio, Michigan and Indiana to Target Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
OREGON, OHIO—(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014 — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman today announced the award of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling over $8.6 million to Ohio, Michigan and Indiana state agencies to protect public health by targeting harmful algal blooms in[Read More…]
Registered Nurses Kick Off National Week of Actions Mandating Highest Ebola Protocols
Nurses Calling on President and Congress to Mandate Highest Ebola Protocols to Protect Front-line Healthcare Workers and the Public.Nurses Invite the Public to Sign Petition to Congress and the White House Demanding Highest Ebola Standards for All Hospital. Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. Registered nurses in various cities across the[Read More…]
World Trade Organization Attacks Commonsense Country of Origin Labels
Corporate Trade Agenda Threatens American Consumer’s Right to Know Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. Today, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that mandatory country of origin labels (COOL) rules for meat and poultry that went into effect in 2013 still ran afoul of the global trade rules. The WTO’s compliance panel[Read More…]
New Report Details Human Rights Violations Surrounding Ex-Im Bank-Financed Coal Plant
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. Today, the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Pacific Environment, and Friends of the Earth U.S. released a report detailing the catastrophic human rights, labor, and environmental violations at Reliance Power’s Sasan coal-fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India. Even more striking is the[Read More…]
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Disappearing Pinto Abalone From Ocean Acidification, Climate Change and Poaching
Once Common From Alaska to Mexico, Abalone Has Declined 99 Percent in Some Places ANCHORAGE, Alaska–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. Conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service today of their intent to sue the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the pinto abalone, an approximately six-inch snail with an[Read More…]
Nigeria is Now Free of Ebola Virus Transmission
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–20 October 2014. The lines on the tabular situation reports, sent to WHO each day by its country office in Nigeria, have now been full of zeros for 42 days. WHO officially declares that Nigeria is now free of Ebola virus transmission. This is a spectacular success story that shows[Read More…]
Ebola: Back from Outbreak Epicentre, UN Officials Says Survivors Now Helping with Care
“I lost my parents to Ebola,” says survivor Tafala, at the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Photo: UNICEF Sierra Leone/2014/Tanya Bindra GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–17 October 2014 – Survivors of Ebola who have developed immunity to the virus are being trained to care for children in Liberia and Sierra Leone, a[Read More…]
