AquaBounty Misleads Investors in Efforts to Join NASDAQ Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Food & Water Watch called on the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) today to reject the stock registration filings of AquaBounty Technologies (ABTX), the maker of genetically engineered salmon, based on misleading and erroneous claims the company is making[Read More…]
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Groups Sue EPA over Faulty Approval of Nanotechnology Pesticide
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to conditionally approve the antimicrobial nanosilver pesticide product “NSPW-L30SS” (previously “Nanosilva”) for use in an unknown number of[Read More…]
EPA Report to Congress: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is Accelerating Great Lakes Cleanup and Protection
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015 – During its first five years, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative implemented more than 2500 projects to improve water quality, clean up contaminated shoreline, protect and restore native habitat and species and prevent and control invasive species in the Great Lakes. That work, which began in 2010,[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Professor Named to Juvenile Justice School Board
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Heather Dalmage, sociology professor and director of Roosevelt’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, has been appointed to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice School District 428 Board of Education. An expert on race, education and family and as director of the Mansfield Institute, Dalmage[Read More…]
Illegal Oil and Gas Leases Once Again Threaten the Badger Two-Medicine, Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness
Blackfeet Tribe and others call for the cancellation of the leases Two Medicine River from the Hall Creek trail. Photo provided by Gene Sentz Browning, MT —(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C. ruled today on a Louisiana oilman’s bid to drill for natural gas[Read More…]
Groups Demand Rejection of Anti-climate Provision in Customs Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015. As Congress prepares to go to conference to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015, a coalition of environmental and fair trade organizations are protesting the inclusion of language in the House version of the[Read More…]
Analysis: Republican Attacks on Endangered Species Up 600 Percent Per Year
Unprecedented Assault Undermines Landmark Law Protecting America’s Most Vulnerable Animals, Plants WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Over the past five years, Republicans in Congress have launched 164 attacks on the Endangered Species Act — a 600 percent increase in the rate of annual attacks over the previous 15 years, according to a[Read More…]
Eight Additional Individuals Charged in NFL-Related Securities Fraud Scheme Targeting the Elderly
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Eight additional individuals were indicted for participating in a securities fraud scheme that targeted the elderly. U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida, and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Miami Field Office made[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama to the People of Africa, July 28, 2015
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015 – 2:07 P.M. EAT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Madam Chairwoman, thank you so much for your kind words and your leadership. To Prime Minister Hailemariam, and the people of Ethiopia — once again, thank you for your wonderful hospitality[Read More…]
South Suburban College Bulldogs Student-Athletes Earn Transfer Scholarships
SSC student-athletes sign their commitment letters: Mariah Middleton, Alyssa Gebo, Kelsie Brezinski, Lavell Boyd, Jerry Davis, III, and Tevin Parker are part of at least 16 Bulldogs who will be advancing on to play their respective sports on scholarship in 2015-16. SOUTH HOLLAND, IL–-(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. South Suburban College proudly[Read More…]
