Petition Proposes Faith-Nurse Alliance for Healthcare Justice Picture credit: Huffington Post Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. Leaders of unions representing leading nurses and other healthcare workers in 18 countries from every major continent are requesting a meeting with Pope Francis during his upcoming visit to the U.S. to discuss ways[Read More…]
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Working People from Wisconsin Follow Scott Walker to Iowa State Fair, Hold Him to Account for Terrible Home-state Record
Home care, healthcare workers, others from WI join at Iowa soapbox speech DES MOINES, Iowa—(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. Yesterday working people from Wisconsin followed Scott Walker to the Iowa State Fair, proving he can’t run from his terrible home-state record. A bus load of working women and men from Wisconsin joined[Read More…]
NASA Scientists Help Understand Newly Discovered Planet
Artistic conception of the Jupiter-like exoplanet 51 Eridani b, with the hot layers deep in its atmosphere glowing through the clouds. Because of its young age, this cousin of our own Jupiter is still hot and carries information on the way it was formed 20 million years ago. Credits: Danielle[Read More…]
Newly Discovered Cells Restore Liver Damage in Mice Without Cancer Risk
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. The liver is unique among organs in its ability to regenerate after being damaged. Exactly how it repairs itself remained a mystery until recently, when researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health discovered a type of cell in mice essential to the process. The researchers[Read More…]
New Study Shows Veterans Want Work Outdoors
CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. According to a just released study, America’s returning veterans show a significant interest in pursuing careers in the outdoors industry. Outdoors careers — including guiding whitewater raft excursions, training rock climbers, and leading outings — take advantage of the skills veterans learned while in military service, and[Read More…]
Hardrock Mining and Fossil Fuels Extraction on America’s Public Lands Get Failing Grades in Fair Share Scorecard
Water flows through a series of retention ponds near the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado, August 12, 2015. SOURCE: AP/Brennan Linsley Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. Amid growing public concern over abandoned hardrock mines and the management of resource extraction on America’s public lands, the Center for American Progress[Read More…]
Roundup Damages Earthworms and Soil Biota, Contributes to Nutrient Pollution
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. A study published in Scientific Reports has found that glyphosate, the controversial and toxic active ingredient in Roundup, reduces activity and reproduction in two species of earthworms and increases soil nutrient concentrations to dangerous levels. Earthworms are excellent indicators of soil health, and provide vitally important ecosystem[Read More…]
U.S. to Mexico: Stop Sea Turtle Deaths or Suffer Sanctions
Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Brian Gratwicke. WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 17, 2015. The National Marine Fisheries Service, a U.S. federal agency, announced on Friday that Mexico’s fisheries are killing too many endangered loggerhead turtles. As a result the United States will levy an embargo on Mexican seafood imports if Mexico fails to tighten its[Read More…]
Rags of Honor Named As The Illinois Veteran Business Partner of the Year
Springfield –(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2015. Rags of Honor, the Chicago-based non-profit company committed to employing improving the lives of homeless veterans, was honored as the Illinois Veteran Business Partner of the Year today as part of the Veterans Day events at the Illinois State Fair, with Governor Bruce Rauner and Illinois[Read More…]
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Statement on the Passing of Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2015. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement Sunday on the passing of civil rights leader Julian Bond: “Throughout his remarkable life, Julian Bond was a leader, a trailblazer, and an icon in this country’s enduring fight for civil rights and equal justice for all[Read More…]
