Artist concept. A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earth’s size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Two of these planets are too hot to support life as we know it, but two are in the star’s “habitable” zone, where liquid water[Read More…]
Day: July 19, 2016
Feds Strip Protections From Lesser Prairie Chickens Without Offering New Plan to Save Birds
Swift Action Required to Save Species Down by 13 Percent Since 2015 Photo courtesy USFWS. TUCSON, Ariz.—(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. In response to a court ruling last fall, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed Endangered Species Act protection for lesser prairie chickens without proposing a new protections for the[Read More…]
Illinois Agencies Announce Coordinated Mosquito Reduction Strategy
SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)–July 19, 2016. Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Director Alec Messina and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Nirav D. Shah, M.D., J.D. yesterday announced a plan to reduce the threat of mosquito-borne diseases in Illinois, like West Nile virus and Zika virus, by removing used tires[Read More…]
Day One of Donald Trump’s Convention: Lies About Hillary Clinton
OHIO–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. Following in the footsteps of every speech Donald Trump has ever delivered, the first day of the Republican Convention was filled with omissions, exaggerations and lies. Here are a sample of the falsehoods told from the podium: 1. FALSE CLAIM: Former Gov. Linda Lingle: “Clinton and Obama[Read More…]
At NAACP Convention, Hillary Clinton Condemns Recent Shootings of Police; Reiterates Call to Work Together for Needed Reforms
OHIO–(ENEWSPF)–July 18, 2016. At the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati on Monday, Hillary Clinton forcefully condemned the recent police shootings, including the killing of officers Brad Garafola, Matthew Gerald, and Montrell Jackson in Baton Rouge. Clinton reiterated the pressing need to support our law enforcement officers, reform our criminal justice[Read More…]