Awards honor leaders and innovators in sustainable food and agriculture SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2013 – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today celebrates four remarkable food vanguards for their pioneering efforts to create healthier and more sustainable food systems at the fifth annual Growing Green Awards. The winners, who[Read More…]
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Bill to Hold Hospitals Accountable on Charity Care Passes First California Legislative Test
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2103. Legislation to press California non-profit hospitals to fulfill their charity care obligation in exchange for the substantial public financing they receive through their tax exempt status passed its first hurdle Tuesday in the California Assembly Health Committee overcoming opposition from California’s biggest hospital corporations and its allies.[Read More…]
San Onofre: Edison Expects to Shut Down and Restart Reactor Repeatedly Over Next Two Years
‘Disgraceful’ scheme for risky nuclear experiment could begin June 1 WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2013. In an extraordinary admission, Southern California Edison said today that as part of the experimental plan to restart one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors, the utility expects to have to shut it down and restart[Read More…]
Potential Uses for Drones in Agricultural Systems
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 4, 2013. As drones have entered civilian life through police surveillance, commercial entrepreneurs are increasingly looking into innovative ways that they may be used for agricultural purposes, particularly for early signs of disease detection and aerial imaging of fields for farmers, but also for application of pesticides. Drone-related[Read More…]
First Lady Michelle Obama and Epicurious Host Second Recipe Challenge
“The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge” Welcomes Children and Their Parents to Create Healthy Lunch Recipes for an Invite to a Kids’ “State Dinner” at the White House New York, NY–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2013 – With the overwhelming success of the inaugural Healthy Lunchtime Challenge & Kids’ “State Dinner” in 2012, First Lady[Read More…]
Experts Challenge Findings in Florida’s Statewide Task Force Report on Prescription Drugs Abuse and Newborns
New York and Maryland—(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2013 –Today, four leading experts in law, medicine, and addiction treatment, Robert G. Newman, MD, MPH, Lynn M. Paltrow, JD, Sharon Stancliff, MD, FAAFP and Mishka Terplan, MD, MPH, FACOG, Diplomate, ABAM, released to Task Force members and the public their analysis of the Final[Read More…]
Bayer, Syngenta Propose Bee Health Plan to Forestall Restrictions on Products
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2013. Last week, Syngenta and Bayer CropScience proposed an action plan to forestall pending European Union (EU) restrictions on their neonicotinoid products that have been linked to global bee declines. Stating that a ban on their products would not save hives, the plan focuses on implementing agricultural[Read More…]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Statement on National Minority Health Month
A Time to Advance Health Equity Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013. April is National Minority Health Month, a time when we reflect on the incredible opportunity we face as a nation to improve minority health, advance health equity, and eliminate health disparities. Fifty years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King[Read More…]
Fact Sheet: BRAIN Initiative
“If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas… Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy… Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s… Now is not the time[Read More…]
Sierra Club Launches GET OUT Campaign for Earth Month
Encouraging people to Get Out and Enjoy, Explore and Protect the Planet SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2013. Today the Sierra Club launched a new campaign urging people to get outdoors. GET OUT is expanding the conservation movement by creating opportunities for people who care about the environment and the outdoors to[Read More…]
