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The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Enviroshop is maintained by dedicated NetSys Interactive Inc. owners & employees who generously contribute their time to maintenance & editing, web design, custom programming, & website hosting for Enviroshop. On October 21st, Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a series of proposed regulatory changes that would include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families and prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in HUD programs, as well as the first-ever nationwide survey of housing discrimination against LGBT Read More… HRC Statement On Pro-LGBT Efforts By Department Of Housing And Urban Development The NAACP applauds the United States Senate for passing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The Senate voted 68-29 in favor of the Act after the House passed the companion bill 249 to 145 in April. "This legislation begins a new era in hate crimes protection and prevention. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) secured a legislative victory for organic farmers and consumers by recently ensuring that the US Department of Agriculture will collect and share economic data that is essential to the growth of the nation's $25 billion organic food and farming sector. The $500,000 allocation for the Organic Production and Market Data Read More… Kucinich Secures Funding For Organic Farming Research A chapter in the upcoming book Handbook of Disease Outbreaks: Prevention, Detection and Control implicates the long-distance transport of farm animals in the spread of human and animal diseases. The chapter, "Disease and transport: a costly ticket around the world," was co-authored by Michael Greger, M.D., Humane Society International's director of public health and Read More… Article Points To Human And Animal Welfare Costs Of Long-Distance Farm Animal Transport The following statement was issued on October 19th by a coalition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality advocates in response to the refusal by a Louisiana justice of the peace to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple in the southeastern part of the state. Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace Read More… Joint Statement Responding To The Denial Of Marriage To An Interracial Couple In Louisiana The NAACP requested that the U.S. Department of Justice investigate the Caswell County, North Carolina shooting by a 52-year-old white man in the direction of three African American children. The shots fired from a 12-gauge shotgun injured two of the children, ages 7 and 10, and left all three children, including another 10-year-old, psychologically On October 13, 2009, North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge, Vermont organic farmer and Organic Consumers Association advisory board member Will Allen, and fed up American entrepreneurs who have been developing and marketing healthy, environmentally-friendly hemp products, turned to civil disobedience with the planting of industrial hemp seed at DEA headquarters to protest the ban Read More… Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp At DEA The Humane Society of the United States praises U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., for introducing the Pet Safety and Protection Act to finally put an end to the practice of animal dealers rounding up "random source" dogs and cats Enviroshop is maintained by dedicated NetSys Interactive Inc. owners & employees who generously contribute their time to maintenance & editing, web design, custom programming, & website hosting for Enviroshop. On October 27, Environmental Defense Fund applauded the announcement by President Obama awarding $3.4 billion in stimulus grants to support modernizing the nation's electrical grid. The funds are being matched by $4.7 billion in private funds to accelerate efforts by utilities, manufacturers, cities and their partners to build this critical platform for innovation. Read More… EDF Praises President's Announcement Of Smart Grid Stimulus Funding |
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