Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today granted accelerated approval to Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for treatment of patients with advanced or unresectable melanoma who are no longer responding to other drugs. Melanoma, which accounts for approximately 5 percent of all new cancers in the United States,[Read More…]
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Cleanup Work Complete in the Ashtabula River Area of Concern
Ashtabula, Ohio –(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the completion of all cleanup work required to remove the Ashtabula River on Lake Erie from the binational list of Great Lakes Areas of Concern. EPA Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes Program Manager Susan Hedman was joined for[Read More…]
Perdue to Stop Using Antibiotics in 95% of Chickens
Center for Food Safety Challenges FDA to Issue Mandatory Regulation Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014. Center for Food Safety (CFS) yesterday expressed support for Perdue Food’s decision to end the use of antibiotics in hatcheries. The move comes as a result of growing concern among consumers and public health professionals about[Read More…]
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Northwest’s Whales, Salmon, Shorebirds From Unprecedented Spike in Oil Shipments by Rail and Barge
PORTLAND, Oregon—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. Amid a spike in oil shipments by rail and barge in the Pacific Northwest from near zero to millions of gallons a week, the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Columbia Gorge today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Coast[Read More…]
CDC Warns Ebola Epidemic in West Africa is Outpacing Current Response
CDC Director highlights US government response; calls for vastly increased and accelerated international response in West Africa Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014. CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. reported on his visits last week to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and called for immediate steps across nations to accelerate response to[Read More…]
Quality of U.S. Diet Shows Modest Improvement, But Overall Remains Poor
Trend from 1999-2010 also shows widening disparities in diet quality between rich and poor Boston, MA—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. Dietary quality in the U.S. has improved steadily in recent years—spurred in large part by reduced trans fat intake—but overall dietary quality remains poor and disparities continue to widen among socioeconomic and[Read More…]
Canadian Beekeepers File Class Action Lawsuit Against Makers of Neonicotinoids
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014.l Beekeepers in Ontario, Canada are tired of losing bees and have decided to take matters into their own hands by filing a class action lawsuit against two makers of neonicotinoids. According to The Globe and Mail, the lawsuit alleges that Syngenta and Bayer CropScience were negligent[Read More…]
Project LIBERTY Biorefinery Starts Cellulosic Ethanol Production
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Project LIBERTY, the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to use corn waste as a feedstock, announced the start of production today. Once operating at full, commercial-scale, the biorefinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa will produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year – enough to avoid approximately[Read More…]
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Provides Funding to Target Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy today announced that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) will provide almost $12 million to federal and state agencies to protect public health by targeting harmful algal blooms (HABs) in western Lake Erie. The funding builds upon the GLRI’s on-going[Read More…]
USDA’s Controversial Wildlife Services Refuses to Help Endangered Ocelot
Wildlife groups announce plans to sue to protect the rare cat from unlawful snares and traps. Tucson, AZ—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and WildEarth Guardians (Guardians), represented by the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC), notified the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services program of[Read More…]
