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Reports from Public Policy Newsletter for 2025-08-01 ( 12 items )  
Brutal Reproductive Violence "Systematic, Deliberate, and Ongoing" in Ethiopia: Report (10)
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (TNSrep) -- Physicians for Human Rights issued the following news release: * * * Brutal Reproductive Violence "Systematic, Deliberate, and Ongoing" in Ethiopia: Report New report based on 515 medical records and 657 health workers' testimonies provides unprecedented documentation of conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence in Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions of Ethiopia * Combatants in Ethiopia have perpetrated widespread, systematic, and deliberate acts of conflic more PR

Center for American Women & Politics: New Report Highlights a Decade of Gains and Persistent Gaps for Black Women in U.S. Politics (10)
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 1 (TNSrpt) -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release: * * * New Report Highlights a Decade of Gains and Persistent Gaps for Black Women in U.S. Politics Higher Heights Leadership Fund and the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University Release Black Women in American Politics 2025 Report as Vice President Harris Charts Her Next Chapter * The Higher Heights Leadership Fund, in partnership with the Center f more PR

FACA Issues MAHA Policy Recommendations (10)
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 1 (TNSrpt) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release on July 31, 2025: * * * FACA Issues MAHA Policy Recommendations Nurturing Healthy Soils Report Recommends Policies to Drive Healthier Communities Across the Country * The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA) published a new report entitled Nurturing Healthy Soils for Healthy Communities. The report recommends the Make America Healthy Again Commission support policies that r more PR

Jet Fuel Pipeline Constraints Could Drive Up Airfares, Flight Cancellations, New CEA Report Warns (10)
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 1 (TNSrpt) -- The Consumer Energy Alliance issued the following news release: * * * Jet Fuel Pipeline Constraints Could Drive Up Airfares, Flight Cancellations, New CEA Report Warns * For each penny-per-gallon increase in fuel delivery costs, operating costs rise by est. $150 million * Report urges government support to encourage private sector investment in jet fuel infrastructure * WASHINGTON - Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), the leading energy and environmental advo more PR

National Corn Growers Association: Farmers Would Feel Impact If MAHA Commission Targets Pesticides, Survey Shows (10)
CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, Aug. 1 (TNSrpt) -- The National Corn Growers Association issued the following news on July 30, 2025: * * * Farmers Would Feel Impact if MAHA Commission Targets Pesticides, Survey Shows In a new survey, American corn growers say they would face higher costs and reductions in crop yields if they were to lose access to key herbicides like atrazine and glyphosate. The survey comes after the Make America Healthy Again Commission released its preliminary report questioning t more PR

New Study: Do Women With MS Have Less Access to DMTs? (10)
NEW YORK, July 31 (TNSrep) -- The National Multiple Sclerosis Society issued the following news on July 30, 2025: * * * New Study: Do Women with MS Have Less Access to DMTs? Researchers in France report that, among 22,657 people with MS between ages 18 and 40, women were prescribed disease-modifying therapy (https://www.nationalmssociety.org/managing-ms/treating-ms/disease-modifying-therapies) (DMT) significantly less often than men. The difference was not related to disease severity or pregn more PR

NFIB Jobs Report: July Job Openings Hit Lowest Levels Since 2020 (10)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (TNSrpt) -- The National Federation of Independent Business issued the following news release: * * * NFIB Jobs Report: July Job Openings Hit Lowest Levels Since 2020 More small businesses cite labor quality as a top problem * (July 31, 2025) - NFIB's July jobs report found that 33% (seasonally adjusted) of small business owners reported job openings they could not fill in July, down three points from June and the lowest level since December 2020, though still well above t more PR

On Thin Ice: Why Shipping's Black Carbon Emissions Demands Urgent Action (10)
SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 31 (TNSrpt) -- Pacific Environment issued the following news release on July 30, 2025: * * * On thin ice: Why shipping's black carbon emissions demands urgent action Prior to the International Maritime Organization's Pollution Prevention and Response group meeting, Pacific Environment elevates the dangers of black carbon in the Arctic * ANCHORAGE -- A new report released today lays out the case for why the International Maritime Organization (IMO) should imme more PR

Report Ignores Decades of Scientific Consensus on Climate, Endangers Public Health (10)
MERRIFIELD, Virginia, July 31 [Category: Environment] (TNSrpt) -- The National Wildlife Federation posted the following news release: * * * Report Ignores Decades of Scientific Consensus on Climate, Endangers Public Health * WASHINGTON, D.C -- The U.S. Department of Energy's report challenging the scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions will ultimately harm communities, public health, and wildlife and the fight to slow and reverse the climate crisis. For decades, the  more PR

Report: Private Equity Delivers High Risk, Low Returns and Costly Fees (10)
WASHINGTON, July 31 (TNSrpt) -- Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund issued the following news release: * * * Report: Private Equity Delivers High Risk, Low Returns and Costly Fees Private equity does not deliver the superior returns that its advocates insist justify pension fund investment in this sector, and such investment would be highly risky for retail investors, according to a new report published by the AFT and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. The stakes could more PR

Reports Highlight Value of IATI in Tracking Education Aid (10)
NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (TNSrep) -- The International Aid Transparency Initiative, a voluntary, multi-stakeholder initiative that works with donors, partner countries and civil society organizations to make information about aid spending easier to access and use, issued the following news: * * * Reports Highlight Value of IATI in Tracking Education Aid Two recent policy papers from the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report team highlight the vital role of the International Aid Transparency Initia more PR

Study Reveals a Novel Immune-based Therapy That May Be Effective in Hard-to-treat Lung Cancers (10)
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 31 (TNSrep) -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute issued the following news release on July 24, 2025: * * * Study reveals a novel immune-based therapy that may be effective in hard-to-treat lung cancers Findings suggest that the patients themselves produce molecules that could reawaken their immune system to battle lung cancer * A study published today by researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, and clinicia more PR