SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 11 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Today, 15 national, regional and state environmental, tribal, and animal welfare groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to adopt a new approach to recovering grizzly bears in the U.S. Northern Rockies, pointing to a new science-based report by Dr. Christopher Servheen, the former USFWS Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator (1981-2016). The petition comes about a month ahead o  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following news release: Peace activists with CODEPINK disrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken's testimony today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protesters were there to call out secretary Blinken for his war crimes in Gaza. On May 10, Blinken falsely assured Congress that Israel was not rest  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Environment America issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed on Tuesday new protections for the monarch butterfly. If the agency finalizes and approves that proposal, it will list the monarch as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In December 2020, the agency determined that listing the monarch was "warranted but precluded" due to "higher priority" species and actions. Western monarch populations, whi  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 -- Equality California issued the following statement on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang following today's vote on the annual spending bill for the U.S. Department of Defense in the House of Representatives -- which currently contains an anti-transgender amendment that would ban access to certain healthcare: "Far-right extremists, newly emboldened by their historically narrow majority  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- America's Physician Groups issued the following news release: America's Physician Groups welcomes the newly released 2024 Report to Congress (https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/data-and-reports/2024/rtc-2024?_cldee=EOvabyr6dLWl7fwz8U6HtowbvucR7T98ij7LLRnD5elD6EZBXy3DgSRxqsdF2QT5&recipientid=contact-3f3906933241ee11bdf300224802ed5b-8d1a32bb75d44371b181a59ffb78d60e&esid=c1cbb2fe-fdb7-ef11-b8e8-000d3a3bdfd0) from the Centers for Medicare & Medica  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 -- The National Immigration Law Center issued the following statement on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * WASHINGTON -- Heidi Altman, federal advocacy director at the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement in response to a report that President-elect Donald Trump plans to revoke a long-standing policy restricting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from operating at or near sensitive locations, such as houses of worship, schools and hospitals  more

LA JOLLA, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Scripps Research Institute issued the following news: The National Institutes for Health's (NIH) HEAL Initiative has awarded Alejandra Mendoza, PhD, assistant professor of Immunology and Microbiology, more than $1.6 million as part of a DP2 grant designed to support early-stage investigators with highly innovative and impactful research. The NIH's HEAL Initiative, Helping to End Addiction Long-term, is aimed at supporting preclinical development of  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Dec. 12 -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release: Columbia, SC; December 11, 2024: South Carolina resident Sandy Chiong, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina's unlawful racial quota for membership on the state's Commission for Minority Affairs. Both of Sandy's grandfathers left China for Cuba. Years later, her parents left Cuba for a better life in America, instilling in her an apprecia  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 11 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Today, the Supreme Court denied a requested stay of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) legacy coal ash rule by Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative. This matter will now return to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to decide on the validity of the rule. The EPA's Legacy Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Surface Impoundment Rule, issued earlier this year, addres  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: WASHINGTON (December 11, 2024)--The U.S. Department of Justice, through Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, submitted two significant briefs yesterday urging the Supreme Court to reject petitions in Sunoco et al. v. Honolulu and Alabama et al. v. California et al. The petitions both seek to block state and local lawsuits centered on holding fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of  more

MONROVIA, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- World Vision International issued the following news release: * * * * Conflict and natural disasters, such as last year's earthquake, will have severe long term mental health impacts * More than 550,000 girls and boys in Northwest Syria are at risk of mental health issues.[/1] * Unaccompanied and separated children are at particular risk of physical and mental health issues * * * International aid agency World Vision is calling on the international  more