DUARTE, California, July 30 -- City of Hope issued the following open letter on July 29, 2024: * * * Today, City of Hope CEO Robert Stone shared an Open Letter of Hope in the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. Please read the full letter below. For someone with cancer, hope means getting the right diagnosis and treatment the first time. It means access to expert care and the nation's leading specialists and researchers dedicated to finding cures. It means having compassionate teams wh  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 30 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Today more than 360 environmental organizations, representing millions of members and supporters, sent a letter to Senators opposing Sen. Manchin (I-WV) and Sen. Barrasso's (R-WY) so-called Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 the latest Dirty Permitting Deal. The legislation, which will be voted on in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this Wednesday, is an egregious att  more

ALISO VIEJO, California, July 31 (TNSres) -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses issued the following news release: * * * Article in AACN Advanced Critical Care describes how Harbor-UCLA Medical Center developed unit-specific guidelines to standardize 1:1 and 1:2 patient assignments in its critical care units * * * The L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS) hospitals, including Harbor UCLA, Los Angeles General Medical Center, Olive View Medical Center and Rancho Los Ami  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform issued the following news: In a significant win for California workers, the state's top court upheld a voter-approved measure recognizing rideshare drivers as independent contractors. For 1.4 million Californians and 72.1 million Americans, this ruling sets an important benchmark for worker freedom nationwide, fueling the dynamic and entrepreneurial spirit of the gig economy. Last Thursday, the California State Supreme Cour  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 30 -- Environment California issued the following news release: SACRAMENTO -- Sunday marked the 100th day of a 144-day stretch that California supplied 100% of its electricity demand with renewable energy for periods ranging from 5 minutes to more than 10 hours. Mark Jacobson, Professor and Director of Stanford's Atmosphere/Energy program, has tracked this notable milestone that started in March and met the 100 days milestone for the first time in July. "Californi  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 [Category: Environment] -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news release: "We urgently need legal protections to give these distinctive owls a fighting chance for survival, especially since the existing policy framework has failed to adequately safeguard this species for decades," said Pamela Flick, California program director with Defenders of Wildlife. The department is recommending that the state's Fish and Game Commission accept the petition for further co  more

DUARTE, California, July 31 (TNSres) -- City of Hope issued the following news release on July 30, 2024: * * * Three-year research program will use patient data, DNA profiling and other advanced techniques to study why spontaneous remission in follicular lymphoma occurs * * * LOS ANGELES -- City of Hope(R), one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, and IFLI today announced a $2 million, three-year collaboration to study spontaneous  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 31 -- 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 on July 30, 2024: CODEPINK condemns the United States' continued interference in Venezuela's democratic processes, following the recent presidential election where Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE). This election, certified by international obs  more

HAILEY, Idaho, July 30 -- The Western Watersheds Project posted the following news release on July 29, 2024: PAHRUMP, Nev. - Conservation organizations today are requesting long-term protection of outstanding cultural and natural resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands in the Pahrump Valley, Nevada, along the California border, in order to protect Mojave desert tortoise populations, historic viewsheds of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail and the Salt Song Trail, scarce w  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility posted the following news release: Conservation organizations are requesting long term protection of outstanding cultural and natural resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands in the Pahrump Valley, Nevada, along the California border. About 18,000 acres of public lands in the South Pahrump Valley are planned to be developed for solar panels by the BLM. Large-scale solar developers are now building the 3,00  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 30 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Yesterday, President Joe Biden announced a proposal for reforming the U.S. Supreme Court. In a speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum and in an op-ed in the Washington Post, President Biden called for terms limits for Supreme Court justices, a binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court, and a constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity. After the   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 30 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Trenton, NJ Today, a coalition of environmental organizations and an impacted landowner backed by eight state Attorneys General and the New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate won their challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) approval of the Regional Energy Access Expansion (REAE) project, which would allow a massive and unneeded expansion of gas capacity into New Jersey.   more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 31 -- CAWA (previously the California Automotive Wholesalers Association), a group that says it represents automotive parts manufacturers, jobbers, warehouse distributors and retailers, issued the following news release: * * * CAWA and ASCCA's Sponsored Legislation AB 471 by Assemblymember Low Protects Consumers from Unsafe Vehicles * * * California motorists are now further protected from unsafe vehicles with the implementation of AB 471 (Low, Chapter 372, Statu  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 30 (TNSres) -- The Williams Institute issued the following news release: A new study published in Health Services Research finds that Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming facial surgery is less common than gender-affirming chest and genital surgeries. In 2022, when the study was conducted, 26 states and D.C. provided Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care. Researchers from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, UCLA Health, and Harvard University exam  more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 30 -- The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following news release: Lansing, MI; July 29, 2024: Today, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that victims of home equity theft -- when government takes more than what is owed to satisfy property tax debts -- are entitled to just compensation regardless of when the illegal taking occurred. "We are glad that the Michigan Supreme Court affirmed that government must pay just compensation when it takes more than what it is ow  more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 31 -- The Rural County Representatives of California issued the following news release: The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) is pleased to announce the winner of RCRC's 8th Annual Rural County Photo Contest. This year's first-place prize goes to Lisa Wilhelmi Perkins for her spectacular photo of Clam Beach at sunset, with yellow lupine in full bloom, in Humboldt County. Both amateur and professional photographers from all over California submitted e  more

SAN JOSE, California, July 31 -- SEMI, an association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the electronics industry, issued the following news release: BRUSSELS, Belgium -- July 30 , 2024 -- SEMI, the industry association serving the global electronics design and manufacturing supply chain, today published recommendations to advance the European semiconductor industry in response to the European Economic Security Strategy . The European Commission has outlined the non-binding roadmap to m  more