New Regulations Take Effect Immediately and Will Require Facilities to Submit Monthly Progress Reports CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced today the issuance of a comprehensive set of regulations that will crack down on the harmful emission of petroleum coke, or[Read More…]
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Montana Supreme Court Affirms Bison Can Roam
Rejects unreasonable demand to return to widespread buffalo slaughter Helena, MT–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. The Montana Supreme Court affirmed the decision of a lower court yesterday, allowing wild bison room to roam outside the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. The ruling upholds a February 2012 decision by state agencies to[Read More…]
Wyoming Supreme Court Rejects Fracking Industry Argument to Withhold Chemicals As Trade Secrets
Litigation continues to better identify the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing Cheyenne, WY–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. Yesterday, the Wyoming Supreme Court issued its decision in a case where Powder River Basin Resource Council and other groups challenged the Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission’s withholding of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) chemical information from[Read More…]
Poll: Americans View Pot As Less Harmful To Health Than Tobacco, Alcohol, Or Sugar
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 13, 2014. By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Americans believe that consuming cannabis poses less harm to health than does the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, or sugar, according to the findings of a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today. Respondents were asked which of the four substances[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Introduces the American Cures Act
Bill Would Preserve America’s Global Leadership in Innovation and Discovery by Investing in Breakthrough Biomedical Research WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. With a decline in federal biomedical research threatening our standing as a leader in discovery and innovation and our global competitiveness, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday introduced the[Read More…]
Sierra Club Testimony for U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Keystone XL National Interest Hearing
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. Today, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune testified before the U.S. Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs regarding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline national interest determination. Brune’s written testimony is here. Below are his verbal remarks: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Corker, members of the committee, it[Read More…]
Major Win for Conservation Groups in Coal Dust Case Against BNSF
Court gives lawsuit green light to proceed SEATTLE, WA–(ENEWSPF)–March 12, 2014. This morning the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington denied a motion to dismiss in its entirety, allowing a Clean Water Act lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company to proceed for coal dust contamination of U.S. waterways.[Read More…]
NASA’s Operation IceBridge Begins New Arctic Campaign
The NASA P-3 leaving the hangar at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on the morning of March 10 in preparation for the flight to Thule Air Base, Greenland. Image Credit: NASA/Patrick Black Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 13, 2014. Researchers aboard NASA’s P-3 research aircraft left the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in[Read More…]
Review of Home Care Visits for the Elderly Finds There is ‘No Proven Benefit’
UK—(ENEWSPF)–13 March 2014 . In what’s thought to be the biggest review of academic literature into whether home care visits provide benefits for the elderly, researchers conclude there is ‘no consistent evidence’ to show they lead to the elderly living longer or having more independent lives than those without any[Read More…]
‘Intelligent’ People are More Likely to Trust Others
UK—(ENEWSPF)–13 March 2014. Intelligent people are more likely to trust others, while those who score lower on measures of intelligence are less likely to do so, says a new study. Oxford University researchers based their finding on an analysis of the General Social Survey, a nationally representative public opinion survey[Read More…]
