SAN DIEGO, California, Sept. 19 -- The American Public Health Association issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: Today, a coalition of the nation's leading organizations of medical and public health professionals--the American College of Physicians (ACP), American Public Health Association (APHA), Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), and American Geriatrics Society (AGS)--submitted a friend of the court brief supporting the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) Medicare drug pri  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Computer and Communications Industry Association issued the following news on Sept. 18, 2023: Here is the Computer & Communications Industry Association's response to a federal district court's grant of a preliminary injunction today in NetChoice v. Bonta, a legal challenge to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. The judge found that this California statute likely violates the First Amendment. CCIA had filed an amicus brief in the case explaining that the   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 19 -- Ducks Unlimited issued the following news release: * * * Ducks Unlimited is working with land managers in Northeastern California to make the most of increasingly unreliable water supplies. * * * With waterfowl season about to kick off in California, hunters in the northeastern corner of the state will again face limited opportunities due to lack of water at popular public hunting areas. But there is good news. State and federal officials say Modoc National W  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- KFF, an organization that says it focuses on health policy, issued the following news release: * * * A Third Have Been Told to "Go Back Where You Came From" Black and Hispanic Immigrants, Those with Limited English Proficiency, and Those Who Are Likely Undocumented Face Some of the Greatest Challenges * * * A new KFF-Los Angeles Times partnership survey of immigrant adults - the largest nationally representative survey focused on immigrants -   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Immigration Reform Law Institute issued the following news release: The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a brief (https://irli.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IRLI-amicus-FINAL.pdf) in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals urging it to reverse a California district court's injunction against a rare positive Biden administration policy on the border. The policy substantially revives a previous Trump rule, and creates a presumption that aliens who cross in  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2023: On September 18, 2023, the parties in a contested class action voluntarily dismissed a Ninth Circuit appeal after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California decertified the class of uninjured consumer plaintiffs. This result was welcome news for Washington Legal Foundation, which filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to r  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 19 -- KFF, an organization that says it focuses on health policy, issued the following news release: Eighty-one percent of nursing facilities would need to hire additional staff to comply with new nursing staff requirements that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed earlier this month, according to a new analysis from KFF. Under the proposed rule, 19% of nursing facilities would currently meet the minimum staff hours for registered nurses  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 19 -- The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement on Sept. 18, 2023: * * * The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement responding to Governor Gavin Newsom announcing more than $267 million to combat retail theft in 55 cities and counties across the state. The plan will provide $15.6 million each to both the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to hire more police, mak  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 19 -- The Museum of Contemporary Art issued the following news release: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is proud to launch MOCA Climate Conversations this September. Bringing together writers, scientists, artists, activists, historians, and educators, the series features conversations that explore the urgent and intersecting issues of climate breakdown, human health, and social justice. The MOCA Climate Conversations series will create a space for learning a  more

OAKLAND, California, Sept. 19 -- The National Center for Youth Law issued the following news: Today the National Center for Youth Law announced the appointment of Shakti Belway as the next Executive Director of the nation's leading youth law organization. "Shakti has the vision, intellect and skill to lead the National Center for Youth Law into the future," Board President Mary Bissell said. "She breaks ground as the organization's first woman and person of color to be Executive Director. We a  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 19 -- EcoWatch posted the following news: By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The State of California filed a lawsuit on Friday, People of the State of California v. Bill Oil, against the world's biggest oil companies, alleging they are responsible for billions of dollars in damages for misleading the public by downplaying the risks of fossil fuels. Sunday, while attending an event for Climate Week in New York, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he will sign new legislation   more

TULARE, California, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine issued the following news release: A billboard urging people to ditch dairy from their diet to help fight climate change has been posted in Tulare County, Calif., which produces the most milk in the nation. In California, most climate-warming methane emissions from livestock are related to dairy. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which is sponsoring the billboard, also wrote to the California  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility issued the following news release: Despite historic use of toxic PFAS chemicals at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, California's public health agencies are not monitoring the migration of these chemicals and have no plans to clean them up, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) contamination has become a major public health conce  more

DIAMOND BAR, California, Sept. 19 -- The Specialty Equipment Market Association issued the following news release: The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) has announced a special new award that will recognize a featured vehicle at the 2023 SEMA Show that showcases exceptional engineering. The SEMA Best Engineered Vehicle of the Year Award will honor and celebrate a build that demonstrates quality engineering throughout the entire vehicle, or an aspect of the vehicle that goes beyond j  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 19 -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued the following statement on Sept. 18, 2023: * * * The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) issued the following statement after recent reporting indicating the discovery of correspondence suggesting that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being murdered during World War II: "This newly discovered correspondence shows more explicit proof that Pope Pius XII shou  more

STANFORD, California, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- The Hoover Institution at Stanford University issued the following news release: The Hoover Institution is pleased to welcome its 2023-24 class of the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows Program. The diverse group of scholars represents a wide breadth of disciplines from prominent centers of academia across the nation. They take a pause from their customary professional responsibilities in order to come to Hoover, where they u  more