Update: Subsequent to the writing of this release, the Illinois Senate passed the amended House bill 32-21, sending the approved Marriage Equality bill to Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, heralded the passage[Read More…]
Day: November 5, 2013
Alabama Husband and Wife Plead Guilty to Identity Theft Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 5, 2013. Mary Young and Christian Young each pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for their role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme , announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the[Read More…]
Irish National Pleads Guilty in New York to Crimes Relating to Illegal Trafficking of Endangered Rhinoceros Horns
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 5, 2013. Michael Slattery Jr., 25, an Irish national, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., to conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act in relation to illegal rhinoceros horn trafficking, announced Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of[Read More…]
NOW Congratulates Illinois on Passing Marriage Equality
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—November 5, 2013. Statement of NOW Action Vice President Bonnie Grabenhofer The National Organization for Women is delighted that the Illinois House of Representatives has passed a marriage equality bill that Governor Pat Quinn has promised to sign into law. This is a great victory for Illinois’ same-sex[Read More…]
VICTORY! Senate Bill 10 (The Freedom to Marry) Passes in the Illinois House
IL–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013. Statement of John Knight, Director, LGBT Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois “Today is an historic day for the State of Illinois, and a great victory for thousands of gay and lesbian couples and their families. We applaud the House members who stood up[Read More…]
Governor Pat Quinn Hails Historic Passage of Marriage Equality in the Land of Lincoln
House of Representatives Passes Legislation to Make Illinois the 15th State in Nation to Embrace Equal Rights for All Couples SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013. Governor Pat Quinn today hailed passage of historic legislation that will make Illinois the 15th state in the nation to embrace full marriage equality. The legislation, which[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Excessive Oil Speculation
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission made a second attempt to curb speculation by traders in oil and certain other commodities: “The good news is that the CFTC has finally proposed a new rule to limit the[Read More…]
As Obama Administration Ponders Power Plant Pollution Rules, 74 Cities Urge Ambitious Action to Protect Climate
Advocates to Present Resolutions at ESA Listening Session in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013. Advocates for climate action today are presenting Obama administration officials in San Francisco with resolutions from 74 cities that support ambitious use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The resolutions —[Read More…]
Lawsuit Filed to Protect People, Wildlife From Toxic Soot Pollution
Failure to Reduce Soot Threatens California, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Tennessee SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce Clean Air Act standards limiting dangerous pollution from tiny airborne particles like soot. The legal action[Read More…]
Astronomers Answer Key Question: How Common are Habitable Planets?
BERKELEY–(ENEWSPF)–November 5, 2013. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, now crippled and its four-year mission at an end, nevertheless provided enough data to answer its main research question: How many of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy have potentially habitable planets? Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler observations,[Read More…]
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