WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. The Sierra Club today filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details on recommendations from Interior Secretary Zinke on the future of public lands protected as national monuments. The summary report from Secretary Zinke was void of any actual recommendations or decision-making metrics. In[Read More…]
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Center for American Progress Launches New Program to Help Improve U.S.-Mexico Relations
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. No country affects daily life in the United States more than Mexico, and the Center for American Progress has established a new program to help leaders in both nations build a relationship of mutual respect and understanding that cuts through the angry rhetoric of recent[Read More…]
NASA Analyzes Hurricane Harvey’s Rainfall, Sees Landfall, August 26, 2017
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2017 Update Satellites have been providing forecasters with valuable information as Harvey intensified to a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall in southeastern Texas. NASA’s GPM satellite and NOAA’s GOES-East satellite provided a look at Harvey’s heavy rainfall, cloud heights, temperatures and extent of the storm. At 6[Read More…]
Texas National Guard Mobilizes Ahead of Hurricane Harvey’s Landfall
AUSTIN, Texas–(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017 — At the request of Gov. Greg Abbott through the Texas Division of Emergency Management, about 700 members of the Texas Army National Guard and Air National Guard and the Texas State Guard with the Texas Military Department have been activated and are pre-positioning throughout the[Read More…]
US Navy Identifies One Dead, Nine Missing USS John S. McCain Sailors
CHANGI NAVAL BASE, Republic of Singapore (NNS) –(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. After more than 80 hours of multinational search efforts, the U.S. Navy suspended search and rescue efforts for missing USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) Sailors in an approximately 2,100-square mile area east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore.[Read More…]
ACLU Response to Press Reports that White House is Considering Ending DACA
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–August 25, 2017. Lorella Praeli, director of immigration policy and campaigns at the American Civil Liberties Union, issued the following statement in response to media reports that the Trump White House is considering ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program: “We have 800,000 examples of why DACA[Read More…]
Zinke Defies Public Outcry, Ignores Likely Job Losses, Recommending Trump Illegally Shrink Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Portland, Ore.—(ENEWSPF)—August 24, 2017. Today, the Washington Post reported Interior Sec. Zinke will recommend President Trump reduce the area of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon and California, or may also recommend a change in management of the monument. This recommendation defies the will of the American people—99.2 percent of public[Read More…]
Tropical Storm Harvey Upgraded to Hurricane Harvey
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. The National Hurricane Center has reported that Harvey has been upgraded to a Category 1 (on the Saffir-Simpson scale) hurricane as of 5:00 pm EDT. NASA Finds Heavy Rainfall in Intensifying Tropical Storm Harvey NASA examined Harvey as it began to intensify and organize and found heavy[Read More…]
Case Series: Topical Cannabis Preparations Associated With Reduced Opioid Use
Toronto, Canada–(ENEWSPF)–August 24, 2017. The administration of whole-plant topical cannabis extracts is associated with reduced pain and opioid use in patients suffering from leg and ankle ulcers due to Pyoderma Gangrenosum (PG), according to a series of case reports published online ahead of print in the Journal of Pain Symptom[Read More…]
United Nations Rights Experts Criticize US Failure to Unequivocally Reject Racist Violent Events
GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–24 August 2017 – The United Nations body monitoring implementation of the global convention on prohibiting racial discrimination has called on high-level politicians and public officials of the United States to unequivocally and unconditionally reject and condemn racist hate speech and crimes in Charlottesville and throughout the country. “We are[Read More…]
