WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015 – The House passed a measure late Monday that would gut the landmark Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, which is bringing back U.S. fisheries from collapse. The legislation weakens key fishery conservation protections, such as annual catch limits and successful timelines for rebuilding depleted stocks. In addition,[Read More…]
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NRDC: Public is Financing $73 Billion in Coal Development, Report Reveals
Governments, financial institutions worldwide still backing coal-fired power plants and coal mining worsening climate pollution WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015 –International financial institutions and governments worldwide are pouring billions of dollars into building new and existing coal-fired power plants and expanding coal mining – activities that worsen dangerous carbon pollution, according to[Read More…]
Rates of New Melanomas – Deadly Skin Cancers – Have Doubled Over Last Three Decades
Without community skin cancer prevention efforts, melanoma rates will continue to climb Community skin cancer prevention programs can prevent future melanoma cases and decrease treatment costs.Entire Infographic Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. Melanoma rates doubled between 1982 and 2011 but comprehensive skin cancer prevention programs could prevent 20 percent of new[Read More…]
Coalition of Conservation Groups Seek to Defend Bureau of Land Management’s New Fracking Rules
Groups oppose oil and gas industry and state challenges to new, stronger rules A fracking drill in a Wyoming prairie. Tom Grundy / Shutterstock Denver, CO —(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. A coalition of six conservation groups yesterday moved to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s new hydraulic fracturing rules against legal[Read More…]
Environmental and Alaska Native Groups Continue Fight to Protect the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea from Risky Drilling
Coalition plans to send massive offshore sale back to court after Department of the Interior re-affirmed controversial oil drilling leases in the remote and fragile Arctic Ocean Walrus hauled out on Bering Sea ice. Captain Budd Christman / NOAA Corps Anchorage, AK —(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. Twelve groups yesterday announced their[Read More…]
College for Kids and Day Camp Summer Programs coming to South Suburban College in June 2015
SOUTH HOLLAND, IL –(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2015. South Suburban College’s Continuing Education Department is offering courses to help fill the summer days with activities that will entertain and challenge children and young adults. The majority of the College for Kids classes scheduled for this summer will begin the week of June[Read More…]
#TraumaCenterNow! Activists and U of C Alums Say #NoMoreBusinessAsUsual During Univ. of Chicago Alumni Weekend Celebrations
Organizers say University of Chicago doesn’t care about Black lives. Week of actions aims to educate alumni and calls on them to demand that U of Chicago open an adult Level 1 trauma center. CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2015. This week, a coalition made up of South Side youth, mothers, clergy, doctors,[Read More…]
Former CIA Detainee Majid Khan’s Torture Finally Public
Details Go Beyond Senate Torture Report to Include Waterboarding, Further Sexual Assault, Threat with Tools New York –(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2015. Today, unclassified information detailing the CIA’s torture of Guantánamo prisoner Majid Khan was made public for the first time by Reuters, including the fact that he was waterboarded on two[Read More…]
Federal Judge Upholds Ban on GE Crops in Oregon County
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2015. A federal judge released a ruling Friday rejecting a request by two alfalfa farms to overturn the ban on GE crops in Jackson County, Oregon. In his decision, U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke found the ban on GE crops is not preempted by the state’s Right[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Calls on U.S. Dept. of Education to Stop Scammers Targeting Millions of Student Loan Borrowers
Attorney General Urges U.S. Department of Education to Implement Nonprofit Credit Counseling Certification Program to Assist Borrowers Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2015. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today called on the U.S. Department of Education to initiate a program to provide certified nonprofit credit counselors for the millions of student loan borrowers[Read More…]
