Closing the pass-through tax loophole used by big businesses will increase federal revenue to meet critical needs and at the same time address income inequality. Source: Scott Roth/Invision/AP Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. Big businesses are avoiding billions of dollars in taxes by using business forms originally designed for[Read More…]
Day: August 11, 2016
U.S. to World: Protect Dolphins, Whales or Lose Access to U.S. Seafood Market
New Rules Ban Seafood Imports That Don’t Meet Strict U.S. Standards for Marine Mammal Protection WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. The National Marine Fisheries Service issued regulations today prohibiting seafood imports from nations whose fisheries kill more whales and dolphins than U.S. standards allow. Each year around 650,000 whales, dolphins[Read More…]
Public Records Sought Over Federal Surveillance of Climate Protesters
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. The Center for Biological Diversity today filed nine Freedom of Information Act requests seeking the release of public records relating to surveillance of peaceful protests of federal fossil fuel auctions. Records obtained by the Intercept in July revealed that federal and local police agents went undercover[Read More…]
Forest Service Asked to Reject Fracking Plan in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest
Feds Fail to Address Climate Change Impact, Danger to Groundwater, Wildlife Habitat ATHENS, Ohio—(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. The U.S. Forest Service should reject a new oil and gas leasing plan in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest due to its failure to address serious concerns over fracking and climate change, conservation groups[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Refuses to Reschedule Marijuana
Agency Removes Separate Research Barrier, Ending Monopoly on Research; Drug Policy Alliance: Next Administration Must End Federal Marijuana Prohibition Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. Today, the DEA announced that it was not rescheduling marijuana, in effect refusing to recognize marijuana’s medicinal benefits. But in what is viewed as a victory for[Read More…]
DEA Announces Actions Related to Marijuana and Industrial Hemp
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced several marijuana- related actions, including actions regarding scientific research and scheduling of marijuana, as well as principles on the cultivation of industrial hemp under the Agricultural Act of 2014. DEA Publishes Responses to Two Pending Petitions to Reschedule Marijuana[Read More…]
In Case You Missed It – Mother Jones: Why Trump and Pence Aren’t Talking About the Auto Bailout in the Midwest
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2016. By: Patrick Caldwell They’ve both been critical of the move that may have saved hundreds of thousands of jobs. If the federal government hadn’t bailed out the auto industry in 2009, the state of Michigan—where Donald Trump spoke about his economic plans Monday—could have lost 338,000[Read More…]
Hating Muslims: Xenophobia In America
American xenophobia and hating Muslims: the two walk hand-in-hand. And it’s not new. “A large majority of them can neither read or write, do not understand our language, and have natural tendencies to live crowded among their own race and to continue their customs brought with them. “The time has[Read More…]
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