WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2014. Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan and the Administration’s Better Buildings Challenge, the Energy Department announced today that Better Buildings Challenge partners are on track to meet their energy performance goals in their second year, saving approximately $100 million a year. The Department also announced that[Read More…]
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Chef Tom Colicchio, Advocates Celebrate Vermont Labeling Law
Vermont’s Landmark Action Sets The Stage For Labeling Efforts Across the Country VERMONT–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Renowned chef Tom Colicchio joined right-to-know advocates today to celebrate Vermont’s enactment of the first law in the U.S. that will require food manufacturers to label foods that have been genetically engineered or contain genetically[Read More…]
‘National Climate Change Viewer’ Enables Focus on Future Climate-Driven Changes for U.S. Watersheds at Local Levels
Provides local and watershed-level maps and summaries of climate projections WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today unveiled the National Climate Change Viewer, a climate-visualization website tool from the Interior Department’s U.S. Geological Survey. The new tool gives citizens and resource managers the opportunity to look[Read More…]
California Getting Closer to Making Overdose Antidote Naloxone Widely Available in Pharmacies
California Overdose Prevention Bill Clears the Assembly with Unanimous Support, Heads to the Senate SACRAMENTO, CA—(ENEWSPF)—May 8, 2014. Today, Assemblymember Richard Bloom’s overdose prevention bill (AB 1535) to expand access to naloxone in pharmacies cleared the Assembly floor vote with unanimous, bipartisan support. The bill now heads to the Senate.[Read More…]
FDA Approves Zontivity to Reduce the Risk of Heart Attacks and Stroke in High-risk Patients
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—May 8, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Zontivity (vorapaxar) tablets to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, cardiovascular death, and need for procedures to restore the blood flow to the heart in patients with a previous heart attack or blockages in the arteries[Read More…]
Parasitic Infections Also Occur in the United States
Millions of people infected An adult triatomine, or kissing bug, with eggs. Triatomines transmit the parasite that causes Chagas disease. Photo by CDC/Jim Gathany Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. Most people think parasitic diseases occur in poor and developing countries, or are infections they might pick up on a trip to[Read More…]
Rising CO2 Poses Significant Threat to Human Nutrition
Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. At the elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 anticipated by around 2050, crops that provide a large share of the global population with most of their dietary zinc and iron will have significantly reduced concentrations of those nutrients, according to a new study led by Harvard School[Read More…]
NASA’s Chandra Observatory Delivers New Insight into Formation of Star Clusters
Astronomers have studied two star clusters (NGC 2024 and Orion) to gain insight on how clusters of stars like our Sun form. They found the stars on the outskirts of these clusters are older than those in the center, which is different from what the simplest idea of star formation[Read More…]
Energy Department Announces Innovative Offshore Wind Energy Projects
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014. As a part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department yesterday announced the selection of three pioneering offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative, grid-connected systems in federal and state waters by 2017. These[Read More…]
Elevated Levels of Glyphosate in U.S. Mothers’ Breast Milk
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 8, 2014 – Two citizen groups have taken the initial step toward debunking chemical-industry claims that glyphosate, the world’s most widely-used herbicide, does not bioaccumulate or metabolize in humans. The pilot study, conducted by Moms Across America and Sustainable Pulse, looked at ten breast-milk samples and 35 urine[Read More…]
