Patient advocates urge world-renowned hospital to change its discriminatory, politically-motivated policy Los Angeles, CA –(ENEWSPF)–June 11, 2012. Patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) recently discovered that a second patient at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been denied a transplant in the past year because of their medical marijuana use.[Read More…]
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Bank of America Announces New $50 Billion Environmental Business Initiative
Company to Exceed Current $20 Billion Goal by End of 2012; Sets New Internal Environmental Goals CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 11, 2012–Bank of Americatoday announced a new 10-year,$50 billionenvironmental business goal to help address climate change, reduce demands on natural resources and advance lower-carbon economic solutions. The company also introduced significant new[Read More…]
Petitioners Press FDA to Complete Environmental Impact Statement on GE Salmon
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 11, 2012. More than one year after petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to complete a mandatory environmental impact statement on the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) fish intended for human consumption, Earthjustice has submitted a letter on behalf of its co-petitioners urging the agency to meet[Read More…]
Guest Blog: The Horticratic Oath Says First, Do No Harm to the Soil
MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012. We thank our friends at Earthcare Natural Lawn and Landscapes and Purple Cow Organics of Wisconsin, one of America’s finest compost companies, for permission to republish this food for thought: Purple Cow Organics specializes in turning what would otherwise be food waste products into rich soil amendments.[Read More…]
NOAA Commissions High-tech Coastal Mapping Ship in Norfolk, Va.
NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler will support NOAA’s nautical charting mission Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012. NOAA today commissioned a state-of-the-art coastal mapping vessel, NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler, during a special ceremony at NOAA’s Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. The new ship’s primary mission will be to detect and[Read More…]
Teaching Self-assembling Structures a New Trick
MIT researchers produce 3-D configurations that could lead to new microchips and other devices. MASSACHUSETTS–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012. Researchers at MIT have found a new way of making complex three-dimensional structures using self-assembling polymer materials that form tiny wires and junctions. The work has the potential to usher in a new[Read More…]
Updated Organic Standards, Including Hops and Antibiotics, Become Regulation
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Organic Program (NOP) has published a final rule in the Federal Register officially codifying into federal regulations changes to organic standards that were recommended by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) over the past year and a half. The[Read More…]
Imperiled South Atlantic Fish Left Unprotected
Groups seek safeguards for “extremely vulnerable” Speckled Hind and Warsaw Grouper Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012 – Two critically imperiled species of deepwater grouper – speckled hind and Warsaw grouper – must be protected from overfishing immediately, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ocean[Read More…]
Major Court Ruling Forces Nuclear Waste Disposal Review
NRDC: ‘This Is A Game Changer’ WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012 – A federal appeals court’s unanimous decision today forces the country to re-evaluate the environmental impacts of the storage and disposal of its nuclear waste in a way that has never been done before. The decision will send the Nuclear Regulatory[Read More…]
Floridians Lose In the Fight For Clean Water
Polluters win right to continue fouling public waters with sewage, manure and fertilizer Tallahassee, FL–(ENEWSPF)–June 8, 2012. Yesterday’s ruling by Florida Division of Administrative Hearings Judge Bram Canter is a loss for the millions of Floridians and visitors who have a right to clean water. Lesley Gamble paddles through green[Read More…]
