PORTLAND, Oregon, March 28 (TNScapv) -- The Mercy Corps issued the following statement on March 26, 2024, with 66 organizations: * * * Today, Yemenis face catastrophic needs driven by the growing economic crisis and ongoing multifaceted conflict, exacerbating poverty and hunger. Half the Yemeni population - more than 18 million people - urgently need humanitarian assistance to survive. The UN-led truce, which expired in October 2022, has resulted in a reduction of hostilities. While truce con  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 26 -- The American Forest Resource Council issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the Obama-era expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) 2016 Resource Management Plans for Western Oregon O&C lands. The case posed legal questions of national interest around Executive Branch overreach and the use of the Antiquities Act to nullify Congressional intent on federal   more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The Center for a Humane Economy issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Today, 75 organizations led by Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy wrote to Interior Secretary Deborah Haaland and urged her to nix a reckless and wholly unworkable proposed plan to shoot more than 500,000 barred owls over the next 30 years across millions of public and private lands in California, Oregon, and Washington as a far-fetched strategy to reduce competit  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release: As legislation on voting rights awaits action in Congress, a growing number of states are passing their own laws to prevent voter intimidation and election interference, making it easier for Americans to exercise their right to vote. A new issue brief from the Center for American Progress highlights voting rights laws recently approved in half a dozen states: California, Connecticut, New York, Oregon, Vi  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 28 -- The Chronic Disease Coalition issued the following news: The Chronic Disease Coalition recently had the privilege of participating in the annual Chronic Care Policy Alliance Forecast -- this year, hosted in Dallas, Texas. The day started with a fascinating and important story about how patient advocacy led to breakthroughs in sickle cell advocacy. We heard firsthand accounts of the barriers that patients face in participating in research studies and finding treatm  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 29 -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: * * * Consumer Reports applauds new law that provides Oregonians with the right to repair their digital devices * * * Oregon Governor Tina Kotek today signed a landmark right to repair bill (Senate Bill 1596) into law. The new law is designed to make it easier and less expensive for consumers to fix their broken devices, while reducing the tons of electronic waste that wind up in landfills. Unde  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 26 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: The U.S. Supreme Court today denied requests by the timber industry to review and potentially reverse the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southwest Oregon. In response, Kristen Boyles, Earthjustice, and Susan Jane Brown, Silvix Resources (attorneys for conservation groups defending the Monument) issued the following statement: "Two federal appellate courts previously  more

MEDFORD, Oregon, March 28 -- Cascadia Wildlands posted the following news release on March 27, 2024: Today a coalition of conservation organizations again filed a legal complaint challenging the Medford District Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) efforts to aggressively log forest stands located outside of Gold Hill, Oregon. The Rogue Gold Forest Management Project ("Rogue Gold") authorizes heavy commercial logging within Late Successional Reserves, areas expressly set aside for old forest conse  more

MEDFORD, Oregon, March 28 -- Oregon Wild posted the following news release on March 27, 2024: Today, a coalition of conservation organizations again filed a legal complaint challenging the Medford District Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) efforts to aggressively log forest stands located outside of Gold Hill, Oregon. DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT (https://www.cascwild.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Filed-Rogue-Gold-Complaint.pdf). The Rogue Gold Forest Management Project ("Rogue Gold") authorizes h  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 28 -- The International Center for Law and Economics issued the following news release: The International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) is excited to announce its second year of Speakers Series Grants to support law & economics scholarship on campus. These grants allow recipients to bring several speakers to their campus over the course of the academic year to present current scholarship. In evaluating proposals for the 2024-2025 academic year, we will place special  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 25 -- The Mercy Corps issued the following statement on March 23, 2024, by Kate Phillips-Barrasso, vice-president of global policy and advocacy, responds to fiscal 2024 funding agreement: * * * "Slashing hundreds of millions in resilience funding from the Development Assistance and Economic Support Fund accounts in the FY24 funding package could lead to more setbacks in reducing global poverty and ultimately create the need for more expensive and extreme humanitarian in  more

EUGENE, Oregon, March 28 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on March 27, 2024, with four organizations: In response to the Biden administration releasing its final U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) methane waste rule, the Western Environmental Law Center, Environmental Defense Fund, The Wilderness Society, Earthjustice, and Western Organization of Resource Councils released the following statements today. The final rules released today take steps to re  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The National League for Nursing issued the following news: The National League for Nursing announces that Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Congresswoman Jen Kiggans in Virginia have been honored as the 2023 winners of the League's Public Policy Advancement Award. This annual award honors deserving congressional leaders who contribute to the nation's progress in health care, nursing, and nursing education. Each of them was selected for demonstrating unflagging "commitm  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 29 -- The Oregon State Public Interest Research Group issued the following statement on March 27, 2024, by State Director Charlie Fisher: * * * On Wednesday, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed SB 1596 into law, ensuring that all Oregonians will be able to exercise their Right to Repair. Now, consumers will be able to access information, parts, and third party vendors to repair their technology, such as phones, laptops, and other consumer electronic devices. Oregon becomes th  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 28 -- The Oregon School Boards Association issued the following news: Salem-Keizer Public Schools reached a tentative contract deal with its teachers Tuesday, but the underlying state school funding issues are far from settled. On Tuesday, the Salem-Keizer School Board sent an open letter (https://salkeiz.k12.or.us/details/~board/district-news/post/school-board-statements-regarding-public-school-funding ) "To all who care about public education in Oregon." The letter call  more

SALEM, Oregon, March 27 -- The Oregon School Boards Association issued the following news: Hiring a superintendent is a school board's most important act. Former Gladstone School Board Chair Pete Frohnert and his colleagues invested long hours before choosing Bob Stewart. "It looks like we picked the right one," Frohnert said. But now, a full 25 years later, Gladstone is going to have to do it over again. Stewart, one of Oregon's longest serving superintendents, is retiring at the end of the  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 27 -- VoteVets issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: The national Veterans Organization, VoteVets, representing over 1.5 million Veterans, Military Families and civilian supporters, is today launching a $530,000 two-week television ad buy explicitly calling out seven Members of Congress for not supporting a vote on a bipartisan national security bill that fully funds Ukraine's war effort versus Vladmir Putin. That bill passed the Senate in early February.   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, March 26 -- VoteVets issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: The largest progressive group of Veterans in America, VoteVets PAC, is today endorsing Shawn Harris to be the next Member of Congress from Georgia's 14th congressional district. "In these unprecedented times, people like Shawn, and his background and experiences - from his military service to ranching - are the exact kind of people we need in Congress," said Travis Tazelaar, Political Director of VoteVe  more