Unanimous Vote in House Follows Last Week’s Unanimous Support in the Senate; Coalition of Reform Advocates and Law Enforcement Urge Gov. Scott to Sign Into Law FLORIDA–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. Today, the Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed SB 1044, reforming Florida’s “Contraband Forfeiture Act,” sending the legislation to Gov. Scott’s[Read More…]
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Supervision of Banks and Nonbanks Recovers $14.3 Million for Consumers
CFPB Examiners Uncover Illegal Auto Defaults of Student Loans and Other Violations WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its latest supervision report where the exams of banks and nonbanks resulted in the remediation of $14.3 million to approximately 228,000 consumers. In its examinations[Read More…]
VA Partners with PGA to Support PGA HOPE Program for Veterans with Disabilities
HOPE Offers Therapeutic Golf for Disabled Veterans and Injured Service Members WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is partnering with PGA REACH, the philanthropic arm of PGA of America, to bring a specialized golf program to disabled Veterans. The program, PGA HOPE – Helping Our[Read More…]
UN Refugee Agency ‘Concerned’ About Proposed EU Deal to Send Migrants Back to Turkey
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (second left) visits Lesvos on his first official visit to Greece. Photo: UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–8 March 2016 – The United Nations refugee agency today expressed a concern about any European response to the migrant crisis that involves the blanket return of all individuals[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders: European Union and Turkey Reach Inhumane Agreement on Refugees
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. In response to an agreement announced today between the European Union and Turkey on refugees and migration, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released the following statement from Aurelie Ponthieu, MSF humanitarian affairs advisor on displacement: “European leaders have completely lost track of reality, and the[Read More…]
NOAA Announces Additional Community Resilience Grants Totaling $4.5 Million
Improved regional preparation, response, and recovery from coastal hazards top goal Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. NOAA awarded an original $4.5 million last month, designed to help coastal communities improve their resilience to adverse events by aiding their ability to prepare for and respond to a variety of coastal threats, including[Read More…]
HHS Ships Blood Products to Puerto Rico in Response to Zika Outbreak
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2016. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced that it is arranging and funding shipments of blood products from the continental United States to Puerto Rico to ensure an adequate supply of safe blood for island residents as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico experiences[Read More…]
Eye Cells May Use Math to Detect Motion
Eye cells multiply – NIH scientists uncovered how neurons in the eye may use math to distinguish moving objects. Diamond lab, NIH/NINDS Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. Our eyes constantly send bits of information about the world around us to our brains where the information is assembled into objects we recognize.[Read More…]
USDA Urged to Reform Scientific Integrity Policy After Allegations of Scientific Censorship
WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016. As scrutiny of censorship of federal scientists has grown — including a feature in Sunday’s The Washington Post Magazine — a coalition of more than 50 sustainable agriculture, environmental, beekeeper, and public interest organizations is once again pressing the agency for overdue reforms. The[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on International Women’s Day 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 8, 2016 Today, on International Women’s Day, we recommit ourselves to achieving a world in which every woman and girl enjoys the full range of rights and freedoms that is her birthright. Women and girls make extraordinary contributions every day across all fields of human endeavor, including in[Read More…]
