Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010 – 2:30 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Let me do one quick statement before I start taking questions. I just want to call your attention to a significant step forward for the agenda that the President outlined during the nuclear security summit in April. Belarus has agreed[Read More…]
Month: December 2010
Recall of Mylanta and Alternagel Liquid Products
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. In consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals, Co. (JJMCP) is recalling, from the wholesale and retail level, twelve MYLANTA® liquid products and one AlternaGEL® liquid product. JJMCP is conducting the recall in order to update the labeling[Read More…]
Op-Ed by President Clinton in the Independent on World AIDS Day
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. The op-ed was published in today’s Indepedent On World AIDS Day ten years ago, as I was preparing to leave office, the world was only beginning to grasp the severity of the AIDS crisis. Nearly 36,000,000 men, women and children were living with the disease, but[Read More…]
AARP: Deficit Commission Proposes Multiple Hits on Current and Future Retirees
Washington–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. AARP remains deeply concerned that the recommendations from the Co-Chairs of the President’s Fiscal Commission would take our nation in the wrong direction, eroding the health and financial security of middle class Americans. The unbalanced deficit reduction proposals from the Fiscal Commission dim further the prospects for[Read More…]
UN Calls on Haitians to Ignore Unofficial Election Results
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–1 December 2010 – The United Nations has called on Haitians to ignore unofficial results of Sunday’s presidential and legislative elections and to wait for the official results to be announced next Tuesday by the country’s electoral council. “The Provisional Electoral Council should be granted the time and political[Read More…]
New Study Assesses the Water Availability in Major River Basins in a Warmer World
GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–1 December 2010. A new Oxford and LSE study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has analysed the extent of water scarcity in some of the world’s largest river basins in the next 50 years, under contrasting climate change scenarios of global mean temperature rises of[Read More…]
Scientists Call for the Strongest Possible Protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. Scientists and natural resource managers from the United States and Canada sent a letter to President Obama urging him to safeguard the extraordinary natural values of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain. The 170 scientists, including ecologists, wildlife and conservation biologists, natural resource managers, and[Read More…]
Sierra Club Welcomes Administration’s Announcement to Strengthen Fuel Efficiency and Pollution Standards for Cars
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation announced a supplemental notice of intent to strengthen car fuel efficiency standards. Statement of Sierra Club Green Transportation Director Ann Mesnikoff “We welcome the news that Administrator Lisa Jackson and Secretary Ray LaHood have taken one[Read More…]
Obama to Maintain Drilling Ban in Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Coasts
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—December 1, 2010. The Obama administration today announced that it will not allow drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico or along the Atlantic coast as part of its new five-year drilling plan. In March, just prior to the BP oil disaster, the administration announced it would open parts[Read More…]
NOAA Awards $2 Million for Regional Sea Grant Efforts to Fight Aquatic Invasive Species
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2010. NOAA today announced $2 million in grants from its National Sea Grant College Program to prevent and control aquatic invasive species. NOAA awarded five regional grants to combat high-priority aquatic invasive species identified by natural resource managers in each region. “Invasive species in our waterways are[Read More…]
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