WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: President Biden designated two new national monuments today. The Chuckwalla National Monument will preserve the desert ecosystem south of Joshua Tree National Park, while the Sattitla Highlands National Monument will safeguard critical water resources and national forests in northeast California. The Chuckwalla designation protects more than 624,000 acres of public lands in southern California. The more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Biden designated two new national monuments today. The Chuckwalla National Monument will preserve the desert ecosystem south of Joshua Tree National Park, while the Sattitla Highlands National Monument will safeguard critical water resources and national forests in northeast California. The Chuckwalla designation protects more than 624,000 acres of public lands in sout more PR

BELLEVUE, Washington, Jan. 7 -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued the following news release: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms says California's new law requiring firearms dealers to provide gun buyers with a pamphlet warning about the dangers of gun ownership amounts to "legislative social bigotry." "This new law, AB 1598, is just another effort by anti-gun Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to discourage Californians from exercising their con more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 7 -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued the following news: The United States Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit has affirmed the Southern District of New York's dismissal of a $4.8 billion defamation lawsuit filed in October 2023 by Louis Farrakhan and Nation of Islam ("NOI") against the Simon Wiesenthal Center ("SWC") and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, SWC's Associate Dean & Global Social Action Director (together the "SWC Defendants"), as well as the Anti-Defamation  more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 6 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: El presidente Biden invoco su autoridad bajo la Ley de Tierras de la Plataforma Continental Exterior (OCSLA, por sus siglas en ingles) para retirar areas vulnerables del oceano de futuras concesiones para desarrollo de petroleo y gas. Los retiros incluyen 625 millones de acres de aguas publicas frente a las costas del Atlantico, el Pacifico, Alaska y el Golfo, incluida una zona en el G more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan. 6 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: President Biden invoked his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to withdraw vulnerable areas of the ocean from future oil-and-gas leasing. The withdrawals include 625 million acres of public waters off the Atlantic, Pacific, Alaska, and Gulf coasts including an area in the Eastern Gulf that President Trump temporarily withdrew until 2032 under the same authority more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the EPA granted a waiver for the Commercial Harbor Craft Standards, which requires harbor craft operators in California to switch to zero-emission boats, cleaning up pollution in the State's ports. Pollution from boats spewing toxic diesel exhaust harms residents who live in communities near harbors. After years of advocacy, California passed the Commercial Harbor Craft r more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Beaumont, Texas - On Monday, ExxonMobil filed a countersuit against the Sierra Club, California Attorney General Robert Bonta, and others in the Eastern District of Texas. This comes in response to a lawsuit the groups filed in September against the company, which is the world's largest producer of single-use plastic polymers. The original complaint, which was filed in San Francisco County Superior  more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 6 -- The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued the following news: * * * In its decision, the court relied on an expert affidavit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center Latin America * * * In a landmark decision, a criminal court in Buenos Aires has convicted a politician named Alejandro Bodart for violating Argentina's anti-discrimination law, basing its decision on the IHRA definition of antisemitism. In posts on the social media platform X, Bodart referred to the State o more PR