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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving California Newsletter for 2024-12-12 ( 11 items )  
'Grizzly Bears Not Recovered' Says Leading Biologist, 15 Regional & National Groups Petition for New Recovery Vision (10)
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 11 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Today, 15 national, regional and state environmental, tribal, and animal welfare groups petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to adopt a new approach to recovering grizzly bears in the U.S. Northern Rockies, pointing to a new science-based report by Dr. Christopher Servheen, the former USFWS Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator (1981-2016). The petition comes about a month ahead o more PR

CodePink: Breaking - Sec. Antony 'Butcher of Gaza' Blinken Disrupted During Congressional Hearing (10)
LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following news release: Peace activists with CODEPINK disrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken's testimony today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The protesters were there to call out secretary Blinken for his war crimes in Gaza. On May 10, Blinken falsely assured Congress that Israel was not rest more PR

Environment America: New 'Threatened' Classification Would Give Monarch Butterflies Fighting Chance to Survive (10)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Environment America issued the following news release on Dec. 10, 2024: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed on Tuesday new protections for the monarch butterfly. If the agency finalizes and approves that proposal, it will list the monarch as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In December 2020, the agency determined that listing the monarch was "warranted but precluded" due to "higher priority" species and actions. Western monarch populations, whi more PR

Equality California: Statement on Anti-Transgender Amendment in Must-Pass Federal Defense Spending Bill (10)
LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 -- Equality California issued the following statement on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * Equality California released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang following today's vote on the annual spending bill for the U.S. Department of Defense in the House of Representatives -- which currently contains an anti-transgender amendment that would ban access to certain healthcare: "Far-right extremists, newly emboldened by their historically narrow majority more PR

New Report Documents the CMS Innovation Center's Major Contributions to Needed System Transformation, Says America's Physician Groups (10)
LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- America's Physician Groups issued the following news release: America's Physician Groups welcomes the newly released 2024 Report to Congress (https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/data-and-reports/2024/rtc-2024?_cldee=EOvabyr6dLWl7fwz8U6HtowbvucR7T98ij7LLRnD5elD6EZBXy3DgSRxqsdF2QT5&recipientid=contact-3f3906933241ee11bdf300224802ed5b-8d1a32bb75d44371b181a59ffb78d60e&esid=c1cbb2fe-fdb7-ef11-b8e8-000d3a3bdfd0) from the Centers for Medicare & Medica more PR

NILC Statement on Reports That Trump Plans to Revoke Policy Safeguarding Schools, Churches From ICE (10)
LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 12 -- The National Immigration Law Center issued the following statement on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * WASHINGTON -- Heidi Altman, federal advocacy director at the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement in response to a report that President-elect Donald Trump plans to revoke a long-standing policy restricting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from operating at or near sensitive locations, such as houses of worship, schools and hospitals more PR

Scripps Research Assistant Professor Awarded NIH HEAL Initiative Grant (10)
LA JOLLA, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Scripps Research Institute issued the following news: The National Institutes for Health's (NIH) HEAL Initiative has awarded Alejandra Mendoza, PhD, assistant professor of Immunology and Microbiology, more than $1.6 million as part of a DP2 grant designed to support early-stage investigators with highly innovative and impactful research. The NIH's HEAL Initiative, Helping to End Addiction Long-term, is aimed at supporting preclinical development of more PR

South Carolinian Challenges Racial Quota for Joining State Commission (10)
SACRAMENTO, California, Dec. 12 -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release: Columbia, SC; December 11, 2024: South Carolina resident Sandy Chiong, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging South Carolina's unlawful racial quota for membership on the state's Commission for Minority Affairs. Both of Sandy's grandfathers left China for Cuba. Years later, her parents left Cuba for a better life in America, instilling in her an apprecia more PR

Statement on the Supreme Court Denial of a Stay of EPA's Legacy Coal Ash Rule (10)
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Dec. 11 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Today, the Supreme Court denied a requested stay of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) legacy coal ash rule by Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative. This matter will now return to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to decide on the validity of the rule. The EPA's Legacy Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Surface Impoundment Rule, issued earlier this year, addres more PR

Union of Concerned Scientists: DOJ Urges SCOTUS to Reject Fossil Fuel Industry Challenges in Climate Deception Cases (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release: WASHINGTON (December 11, 2024)--The U.S. Department of Justice, through Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, submitted two significant briefs yesterday urging the Supreme Court to reject petitions in Sunoco et al. v. Honolulu and Alabama et al. v. California et al. The petitions both seek to block state and local lawsuits centered on holding fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of more PR

World Vision International: Unaccompanied Syrian Children in Need of Mental Health Support (10)
MONROVIA, California, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- World Vision International issued the following news release: * * * * Conflict and natural disasters, such as last year's earthquake, will have severe long term mental health impacts * More than 550,000 girls and boys in Northwest Syria are at risk of mental health issues.[/1] * Unaccompanied and separated children are at particular risk of physical and mental health issues * * * International aid agency World Vision is calling on the international more PR