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Daily Archives: February 16, 2011
Will Attacking Planned Parenthood Create Jobs?
Guest Column by Ethan Rome Executive Director, Health Care for America Now The House Republicans seem to be saying yes. Apparently, taking away women’s access to reproductive health services is an important way to create jobs and get the economy moving again. That may explain the urgency of Rep. Mike Pence’s disgraceful legislation to defund…
University of Alabama Pressured Not to Lease Land for Coal Mine
The Black Warrior Riverkeeper non-profit environmental group, part of the national Waterkeeper Alliance, is still putting the pressure on the University of Alabama not to lease land for a coal mine on the Mulberry Fork directly across from a Birmingham drinking water source. The group emailed an open letter to University of Alabama President Robert…
Non-Profit Groups Urge Calls to Congress to Prevent Cuts to Environmental Protections
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on a continuing resolution to keep the government operating for the remainder of the fiscal year, but the Republican bill slashes critical funding for water and other environmental protections, and includes language that would prohibit EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act or…
