Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health CASPER, WY —(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming federal judge Scott W. Skavdahl rejecting industry and state efforts to halt[Read More…]
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In Case You Missed It: Highlights from Drug Policy Alliance Press Teleconference Featuring Speakers Reacting to Confirmation Hearings for Senator Jeff Sessions
Call Highlighted Sessions’ Record on Criminal Justice Reform, Marijuana Reform, and Civil and Human Rights Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. On January 12, the Drug Policy Alliance hosted a press teleconference with speakers from a broad spectrum of organizations who shared strong concerns that, if confirmed, Jeff Sessions as Attorney General[Read More…]
Women’s March on Washington Update: ‘Sister Marches’ Go Viral Across the Globe
Interest surges in local solidarity events inspired by Women’s March on Washington BOSTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 — The Women’s March on Washington has inspired a global wave of activism, with more than 616 ‘sister marches’ planned to occur on the same date as the one in the nation’s capital Jan. 21.[Read More…]
Trump’s Marketing Efforts Go Into Overdrive to Hype His Dud of an Inauguration
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Laura Clawson Back in 2009, President Obama showed Trump how the drawing-a-crowd thing is done. Donald Trump always needs to be the biggest and best, and if reality doesn’t cooperate, he’s willing to do a little false marketing. Since his inauguration is shaping up to[Read More…]
Congressional Budget Office: Obamacare Repeal Would Increase Uninsured to 32 Million, Double Premiums in Next Decade
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017 By Joan McCarter Source: NY Daily News The Congressional Budget Office has evaluated the Obamacare repeal passed by Congress last year to determine what would happen if the same bill was used again. The aim was to predict “the changes in coverage or premiums that would result from leaving[Read More…]
CODEPINK Brings Colorful Audacious Resistance to the Inauguration of Donald Trump and the Women’s March on Washington
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. CODEPINK will be visible in our dissent of the inauguration of president-elect Donald J. Trump. We will Rise^Love^Resist for 3 days in the streets of WDC. Dancing, Singing, Hugging, Loving and sharing the world of peace and justice we want to live in. We will be[Read More…]
Drug-Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Show Worrisome Ability to Diversify and Spread
Medical illustration of carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. A family of highly drug-resistant and potentially deadly bacteria may be spreading more widely—and more stealthily—than previously thought, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.[Read More…]
Bullies Target Physical Appearance, Ethnicity, Gender or Sexual Orientation – UN Reports
Children at a displaced camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UN Photo/Sophia Paris NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–17 January 2017 – Nearly a quarter of a million children and young people world-wide are bullied each year, according to a report released today by the United Nations educational and cultural agency, which found that bullies like[Read More…]
Remembering Gene Cernan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16, surrounded by his family. Cernan, a Captain in the U.S. Navy, left his mark on the history of exploration by flying three times in space, twice to the moon. He also holds[Read More…]
In Letter to Senate HELP Committee, 38 Groups Express Concerns with Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 17, 2017. Thirty-eight groups representing a broad spectrum of education stakeholders have sent a letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, Committee expressing “strong concerns” with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next U.S. secretary of education, Betsy DeVos. “Over the[Read More…]
