WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, an organization that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Oregon, and Goodwin Procter today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court case FBI v. Fikre, which will determine whether a U.S. citizen can continue to challenge his placement on the No Fly List, after the   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 20 -- The American Forest Resource Council issued the following statement on Dec. 19, 2023: * * * American Forest Resource Council President Travis Joseph had the following to say regarding the U.S. Forest Service's Notice of Intent (NOI) on Old Growth forests: "The American Forest Resource Council is reviewing the Forest Service's NOI and will submit substantive comments. On the surface, however, the proposed policy fails to take meaningful steps to address the true ri  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 20 -- The American Forest Resource Council issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: The American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) announced today that 29 members of the U.S. Congress and six organizations have filed amicus curiae briefs in support of AFRC's and the Association of O&C Counties' (AOCC) joint petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court. AFRC and AOCC are asking the Court to review the Obama-era expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou Na  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 19 -- The American Forest Resource Council issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: Today the American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) questioned the politics and science behind the use of funding from Washington's controversial Climate Commitment Act (CCA) to set aside 2,000 acres of Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) trust lands that will no longer serve as working forests to provide climate benefits, nor to provide funding for counties, public schools and  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news on Dec. 18, 2023: A decades-long vision came to reality today when Colorado Parks and Wildlife reintroduced five gray wolves in Grand County, marking the official beginning of the state's long-awaited gray wolf restoration effort. These five are the first of up to 10 wolves that will be captured from Oregon and released on state-owned lands through March 2024, the first phase of a multi-year restoration campaign. With bo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Environment Oregon issued the following statement on Dec. 19, 2023: * * * The Biden administration announced Tuesday a proposed national forest plan amendment, which will change policies for managing old-growth woodlands across the National Forest System. The amendment would protect the last remaining old-growth trees in national forests by adding new safeguards against logging. This action is a step toward fulfilling the promise of President Joe Biden's April 2022 Execu  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 19 -- The International Center for Law and Economics issued the following news release: Final updated merger-enforcement guidelines published today by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) fail to incorporate copious public feedback about the benefits of mergers and acquisitions, and as a consequence, courts may be unlikely to follow them, according to scholars of the International Center for Law & Economics. "As we noted when the draft gui  more

EUGENE, Oregon, Dec. 19 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: Conservation groups filed a lawsuit (https://westernlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023.12.18-SPLAT-Complaint.pdf) today against the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for authorizing a massive logging and road-building project adjacent to Yellowstone National Park that would hinder threatened grizzly bear recovery in the region and destroy huge swaths of m  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 23 -- Medical Teams International issued the following news release: Medical Teams International is on alert in Sudan as the conflict that has ravaged the country since April has spread to central Al Jazirah State and its capital, Wad Madani, an area in close proximity to Medical Teams' country office and programs. All staff are accounted for, safe, and on standby. The attack on Wad Madani, a key humanitarian hub, has forced many United Nations and international organiza  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 22 -- The Mercy Corps issued the following statement on Dec. 21, 2023: * * * Just 24 hours after it was announced that more than 20,000 people have reportedly been killed in Gaza, a UN report today indicated that deaths from starvation could surpass those from airstrikes in the weeks to come. Today's shocking report assesses that every household in Gaza is expected to fail to meet their food needs in the coming weeks - the highest percentage of acute food security ever c  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 23 (TNSres) -- The National Psoriasis Foundation issued the following news release: New NPF-funded research published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology provides evidence that implementation of a care coordinator program may substantially reduce risk of developing related health conditions, particularly cardiovascular disease, among psoriasis patients. Psoriasis is an inflammatory disease associated with premature mortality, largely explained by an excess risk o  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 18 -- Oregon Wild issued the following news release: The visionary Northwest Forest Plan was intended to protect and restore mature and old-growth forests and imperiled salmon and wildlife on federal public lands in the Pacific Northwest. It was the first landscape-level ecosystem protection plan adopted anywhere in the world and remains an international model for conservation. The plan has had enormous benefits for clean water, salmon, and wildlife because of its protect  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 19 -- The Sierra Club issued the following statement on Dec. 18, 2023: * * * Today, the United States Forest Service released a Notice of Intent to amend the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP). The NWFP covers roughly 20 million acres of mature and old-growth forests in Washington, Oregon and California. The NWFP was created in 1994 as the first landscape-level, science-based plan guiding stewardship of a critically important regional ecosystem. Thirty years on from the creat  more

DENVER, Colorado, Dec. 20 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following statement on Dec. 19, 2023: * * * This week, following the failure of a last-minute lawsuit attempting to derail the process, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) successfully released five wolves in Colorado. The wolves, which were transported from Oregon, are the first 'paws on the ground' of the reintroduction effort, which aims to release at least 10-15 wolves in western Colorado by March of 2024. This week's release marks   more