PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network issued the following news release: * * * - Oregon Has Room to Improve Tobacco Control Efforts Including Raising the Price of Cigarettes and Taxing E-cigarettes to Save Lives, Reduce Healthcare Costs * * * Oregon gets mixed results for implementing policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Th  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 31 -- Comagine Health issued the following news release: * * * - Local partners author report on health equity across Portland Metro Region. The Healthy Columbia Willamette Collaborative (HCWC) and Comagine Health announce the findings of a 2016-2019 community health needs assessment (CHNA). The Collaborative's CHNA seeks to highlight the community's health needs across the quad-county region, including Clark County, Washington, and Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington co  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release, dated July 25: * * * - Our attorneys are going head to head with the corporations and government agencies responsible for our unjust food system * * * This summer has been record-breakingly hot and our legal team is hard at work bringing the heat on agribusiness. While we campaign for a national ban on factory farms and moratoriums on factory farm construction in Iowa and Oregon, our attorneys are going head t  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The Society for Neuroscience issued the following news release: Blocking dopamine receptors in different regions of the amygdala reduces drug seeking and taking behavior with varying longevity, according to research in rats published in eNeuro. The amygdala contains receptors for dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in reward seeking, and has been shown to influence cocaine reward behaviors, making it a target for addiction treatment research. Matthew Lattal and Earnes  more

EUGENE, Oregon, July 29 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: Conservation groups protested a Trump administration plan today that would expand federal fossil-fuel development in southwestern Colorado, threatening climate, wildlife and recreation. The Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan would allow increased fracking, which will threaten organic agriculture and endangered species and undermine the state's new climate law. "This proposed plan is antithetica  more

EUGENE, Oregon, Aug. 1 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: In the wake of a federal appeals court win in May, a coalition today filed a new lawsuit and request for a restraining order (https://westernlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2019.08.01-Complaint_Chaco-2.0.pdf) to defend the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico from illegal oil and gas drilling. Today's suit was filed in federal court by Dine Citizens Against Ruining our Environment, San   more