Recreational Users Provide Support for Critical Conservation Projects WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute nearly $1.1 billion in excise tax revenues paid by sportsmen and sportswomen to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies to fund[Read More…]
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Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Karol V. Mason Delivers Remarks at the 30th National Symposium on Child Abuse
Huntsville, Alabama—(ENEWSPF)—March 25, 2014. Thank you, Chris [Newlin]. I’m delighted to be here in Huntsville and thrilled to join this large and distinguished group of child-serving professionals. It’s inspiring to see the number of people from all over the country and around the world – and from across many disciplines[Read More…]
Women’s Rights in the Dominican Republic Take Center Stage at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. Reproductive health and human rights advocates testified today in Washington, D.C. on women’s rights issues, including discrimination, violence and reproductive rights violations in the Dominican Republic. Despite clear and consistent evidence that restrictive abortion laws do nothing to decrease the prevalence of abortion, the Dominican Republic[Read More…]
Network News Climate Change Stories Rarely Report Both Impact, Action
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. When it involves climate change coverage, viewers don’t always get the complete picture from U.S. network television, according to a University of Michigan study. Major networks—ABC, CBS and NBC—show the impact or actions taken in climate change stories, but rarely combine the components in the same[Read More…]
IPCC Starts Meeting to Finalize Working Group II Report
YOKOHAMA, Japan—(ENEWPSF)–25 March, 2014. Government representatives and scientists on Tuesday opened a five-day meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to finalize a report assessing the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems, options for adaptation, and the interactions among climate changes, other stresses on societies,[Read More…]
Air Pollution is Killing Millions around the World, says World Health Organization
NRDC’s Beinecke Calls for “Immediate and More Vigorous Actions to Limit Toxic Brew’’ WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014 – An estimated seven million people around the world in 2012 died prematurely as a result of air pollution– making dirty air the largest single environmental health risk we face, the World Health Organization[Read More…]
NJ Court: Gov. Christie Illegally Repealed Climate Change Pollution Rules
TRENTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014—A New Jersey court ruled this morning that the Christie Administration broke the law when it excused power plants from complying with regulations limiting dangerous climate-changing pollution. “Today’s court decision—together with the substantial economic, environmental and public health benefits the program has demonstrated in neighboring states—should compel New[Read More…]
EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Clarify Protection for Nation’s Streams and Wetlands: Agriculture’s Exemptions and Exclusions from Clean Water Act Expanded by Proposal
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 25, 2014. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) today jointly released a proposed rule to clarify protection under the Clean Water Act for streams and wetlands that form the foundation of the nation’s water resources. The proposed rule will benefit businesses[Read More…]
Senator Wyden Applauds Approval of Jordan Cove LNG Terminal
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2014. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore, issued the following statement on the Energy Department’s approval of Jordan Cove’s application to export liquefied natural gas from Coos County, Oregon: “This announcement is exactly what Coos Bay, North Bend and America need: new jobs and new investment, while factoring in[Read More…]
Attorney General Holder Announces Justice Department to Require Federal Halfway Houses to Boost Treatment Services for Inmates Prior to Release
New Rules Also Instruct Federal Halfway Houses to Provide Transportation Assistance, Cell Phone Access in Order to Help Inmates Seek Employment Opportunities WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—March 24, 2014. In a new step to further the Justice Department’s efforts towards enhancing reentry among formerly incarcerated individuals, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that the[Read More…]
