SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Feb. 1 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement on Jan. 31, 2025: * * * KS Legislature passes bill to protect kids from harmful, risky procedures The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Matt Sharp, director of the ADF Center for Public Policy, regarding the Kansas Legislature's passage Friday of SB 63, a law that protects children from the administration of life-altering sex-related surgeries, puberty bloc  more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Feb. 1 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement on Jan. 31, 2025: * * * Pro-life churches ask SCOTUS to defend right to challenge gov't action The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding a friend-of-the-court brief ADF attorneys filed Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court in Diamond Alternative Energy v. Environmental Protection Agency, in which gasol  more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Feb. 1 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement on Jan. 31, 2025: * * * Trump admin returns Title IX to common sense, biological reality The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom CEO, President, and General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding a Dear Colleague letter the U.S. Department of Education sent Friday that rejects the Biden administration's unlawful attempt to change the meaning of "sex" in Title IX--a federal law   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Appeal Challenges Arizona's Approval of Dangerous Air Pollution from Copper World Mine TUCSON, Ariz.-- Environmental and community groups have appealed the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality's decision to grant an air pollution permit to the Copper World mine, the final permit required to begin mining operations in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson. "Th  more

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Feb. 1 -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news: * * * Green is the new black: New study sheds light on reforestation and post-fire recovery Post-fire tree planting significantly accelerates forest recovery in burned areas, increasing regrowth rates by 25.7%. That's according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Ecological Research Institute (ERI) of Northern Arizona University, recently published in the scientific journal Forest Ecology and  more

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Feb. 1 -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news: * * * More than words: How communication signals affect what you hear "Dunno." It's not really a word, much less a sentence. Yet if a conversational partner grunted that at you after you asked whether it's cold outside, intuitively, you know what they said: "I don't know." Well, you'd understand that if English were your first language. If it's not, no matter how fluent you are, the meaning of that grunt   more