WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- The Food and Water Watch posted the following news release: * * * Rally comes as the real estate lobby backs dangerous legislation to gut the landmark law, on track to create thousands of jobs, slash energy bills and reduce climate pollution * * * New York -- Today, local city and state elected officials joined more than 75 activists for a Climate Week rally outside City Hall, to defend NYC's landmark climate and jobs law, Local Law 97, from an all-out assault by the  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following statement on Sept. 30, 2024: * * * For the second year in a row, California has taken decisive action to protect consumers--especially kids--from unsafe food additives. Over the weekend, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the California School Food Safety Act. This first-in-the-nation law bans synthetic food dyes in foods served or sold in public schools across the state and follows up on the als more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: This morning elected officials joined 75 concerned residents and grassroots groups from around the state to rally in support of the Climate Superfund Act, a bill before the state legislature that would make the largest fossil fuel corporations pay for the damages caused by climate change. The bill was introduced by Senators McKeon and Smith, and Assembly Members. Allen, Hall, and Collazos-Gill. T more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: * * * Federal Court Ruling is First to Require Stronger Fluoride Regulation Under Toxic Substance Law * * * In a first-of-its-kind decision, a federal court in California ruled yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must strengthen regulation of fluoride in drinking water across the country. The court found that scientific evidence of fluoride's health risks when ingested at levels currently more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: * * * CAFOs are producing record amounts of waste, endangering water and public health * * * A new interactive map (https://foodandwater.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/filtergallery/index.html?appid=571800658574445b9295f1aa8817e8aa), released today by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, paints a comprehensive picture of factory farm domination in America. The resource, based on the latest USDA  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2024: * * * Aerial Photos from Food & Water Watch, Oregon Rural Action Demonstrates Problem of Oregon's Expanding Factory Farms * * * New photos released today by Food & Water Watch and Oregon Rural Action reveal in stark detail the scale of factory farms in Eastern Oregon, particularly the Threemile Canyon Farms Facility. The aerial photos of factory farms in Eastern Oregon show tens of thousands o more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 30 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: The US biotech company Nanoscope Therapeutics Inc. has acquired a license for the CatCh technology from Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society. Based on research findings from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, and the pioneering work of Prof. Ernst Bamberg in the field of optogenetics, this patented technology enhances the light sensit more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 26 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna have discovered a potential "pause button" in the earliest stages of human development. Whether humans can control the timing of their development has long been debated. The new study suggests that this "pause button" can be ac more PR