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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Oregon Newsletter for Sunday January 19, 2020 ( 11 items )  

Center for Digital Democracy: Popular Dating, Health Apps Violate Privacy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The Center for Digital Democracy issued the following news release: * * * - Leading Consumer and Privacy Groups Urge Congress, the FTC, State AGs in California, Texas, Oregon to Investigate * * * Nine consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), congressional lawmakers and the state attorneys general of California, Texas and Oregon to investigate several popular apps available in the Google Play Store. A report (https://default.salsalabs.org/T05553a92-40cb  more

Center for Food Safety: Groups Petition EPA to Take Emergency Action on Chronic Groundwater Pollution in Rural Oregon
PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 17 -- The Center for Food Safety issued the following news release: * * * - Oregon officials have failed to meaningfully address drinking water contamination for three decades, may approve a new mega-dairy in the area * * * Moments ago, a coalition of public interest groups filed a petition under the Safe Drinking Water Act requesting the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) take emergency action to address groundwater contamination in Morrow and Umatilla Coun  more

Comagine Health Invites Health Care Organizations and Additional Partners to Join the Partnership to Reimagine Health Care
SEATTLE, Washington, Jan. 14 -- Comagine Health issued the following news release: * * * - New initiative is poised to transform the health care system * * * Comagine Health recently launched the Partnership to Reimagine Health Care and is inviting health care organizations in Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington to join this initiative. This 5-year program is focused on working with long-term and post-acute care providers, health systems, hospitals, primary care and specia  more

Community Leaders Across N.M. Applaud Oil Conservation Commission for Adopting Oil & Gas Enforcement Rules
EUGENE, Oregon, Jan. 17 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on Jan. 16: Community leaders across New Mexico applauded the Oil Conservation Commission for acting to protect the state's air and water resources from oil and gas pollution by adopting new enforcement rules under legislation adopted in the 2019 session. The Oil Conservation Division lost administrative enforcement authority following the infamous 2009 Marbob New Mexico Supreme Court ruling. In f  more

Consumer Federation: Popular Dating and Health Apps Violate Privacy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The Consumer Federation of America issued the following news release: Nine consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), congressional lawmakers and the state attorneys general of California, Texas and Oregon to investigate several popular apps available in the Google Play Store. A report released by the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) alleges that the apps are systematically violating users' privacy. The report found that 10 well-known apps - Grindr, Tinder  more

Defenders Pledges Reward for Information on California Wolf Killing
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news: Defenders of Wildlife has announced a matching pledge of $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the unsolved case of an endangered gray wolf killing in 2018. This is in addition to the $2,500 recently pledged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Just days after arriving in northern California from Oregon in December of 2018, the young male wolf identified as OR-59 wa  more

Food and Water Watch: Groups Petition EPA to Take Emergency Action on Chronic Groundwater Pollution in Rural Oregon
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: * * * - Oregon officials have failed to meaningfully address drinking water contamination for three decades, may approve a new mega-dairy in the area * * * A coalition of public interest groups have filed a petition under the Safe Drinking Water Act requesting the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) take emergency action to address groundwater contamination in Morrow and Umatilla Counties. Oregon off  more

Medical Teams International Receives $350,000 Grant to Launch Response to Venezuelan Crisis
PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 18 -- Medical Teams International issued the following news release on Jan. 17: * * * - Grant received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase access to primary healthcare services for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia * * * Medical Teams International received a $350,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase access to life-saving primary healthcare services, including maternal and child healthcare, for 120,000 Venezuelan migrants in S  more

Oregon Court of Appeals Asked, Again, to Enforce Law Against Anti-LGBT Portland-Area Bakery
SALEM, Oregon, Jan. 14 -- Lambda Legal issued the following news release on Jan. 13: The Oregon Court of Appeals once again heard oral argument in the case of the Portland-area bakery that denied service to a lesbian couple based on religious objections to serving same-sex couples. The court two years ago upheld a 2015 ruling by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) that the owners of Gresham-based Sweetcakes By Melissa violated the state's nondiscrimination statutes when they refuse  more

Public Citizen: Popular Dating, Health Apps Violate Privacy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- Public Citizen issued the following news release: Nine consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), congressional lawmakers and the state attorneys general of California, Texas and Oregon to investigate several popular apps available in the Google Play Store. A report released by the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) alleges that the apps are systematically violating users' privacy. The report found that 10 well-known apps - Grindr, Tinder, OkCupid, Happn, Cl  more

Western Environmental Law Center: Summer 2020 Legal Internship
EUGENE, Oregon, Jan. 17 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) is a high-impact, nonprofit public interest environmental law firm with a 26-year legacy of success using the power of the law to safeguard the public lands, wildlife, and communities of the American West in the face of a changing climate. We are accepting applications from law students currently in their second or third year of law school (2L or 3L) for  more