City Saved and Reinvested $10 Million in 2012 After Mayor Emanuel Directed Reform Aimed at Eliminating Duplicative Work; Plans for More Savings in 2013 CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Mayor Emanuel announced yesterday that the City of Chicago’s Project Coordination Office (PCO) will enter a second construction season with the purpose of[Read More…]
Day: April 9, 2013
Planned Parenthood, Women’s Health Advocates Submit Nearly 350,000 Comments in Support of ACA Birth Control Benefit
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 8, 2013. Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards announced today’s submission of nearly 350,000 comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in support of the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit generated by a coalition of women’s health and advocacy groups including Planned Parenthood Federation[Read More…]
Great Beer Needs Clean Water: NRDC Partners with Craft Brewers to Protect the Clean Water Act
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013 – It takes great water to make great beer, so the Natural Resources Defense Council is teaming up with nearly two dozen nationally-respected craft brewers to launch a campaign today advocating for strong clean water policies. The craft brewing industry—makers of beloved brews, small business entrepreneurs and[Read More…]
No Grand Bargain; Elderly Women Hit Hardest
Nurses Warn: Cuts Would Do Serious Harm in Communities Already Hurting Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. The largest U.S. organization of registered nurses, National Nurses United (NNU), issued its strongest warning yesterday: Cuts in Social Security and Medicare would do harm to America’s elderly and disabled, vulnerable populations whose resources[Read More…]
Retired Star Found with Planets and Debris Disc
Dust disc around Kappa Coronae Borealis EU–(ENEWSPF)–9 April 2013. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt – produced by colliding comets or asteroids – orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system. After billions of years steadily burning hydrogen in their cores,[Read More…]
Job openings increase from 3.6 to 3.9 million in February, 2013
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—April 9, 2013. There were 3.9 million job openings on the last business day of February, up from 3.6 million in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) and separations rate (3.1 percent) were little changed in February. This release includes estimates[Read More…]
Why Women Continue to Make 77 Cents to a Man’s Dollar and the Real Impacts of the Gender Wage Gap
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. To mark this year’s Equal Pay Day and push for progress toward pay equity, the Center for American Progress released new resources that unpack the complicated story behind why the gender wage gap persists. Reports reveal the top 10 occupations with the largest and smallest[Read More…]
NOW Calls on Congress to Reject President Obama’s Betrayal of Women, as Chained CPI Compounds Harm Caused by Gender Pay Gap
Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. On Equal Pay Day, the National Organization for Women has a message for Congress: Do not follow President Obama in cheating the women of this country. After facing years of wage discrimination, women cannot afford to be swindled yet again[Read More…]
Sierra Club and Environmental Coalition Petition the Department of Energy to Revise Out-of-Date Rulemaking Policy on Natural Gas Exports
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Yesterday, the Sierra Club and a list of environmental coalition partners have filed a petition with the Department of Energy (DOE) to revise the nearly 30-year-old policy guidelines for approving natural gas exports. The petition urges the DOE to establish new regulations or guidance, defining how the DOE[Read More…]
In Wake of Arkansas Pipeline Spill, Environmental Groups Request Extension to Keystone Comment Deadline
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 9, 2013. Environmental organizations yesterday requested for the second time that the State Department extend the 45 day public comment period on the Keystone XL environmental assessment to answer specific questions about tar sands pipeline safety raised by the failure and spill of the Exxon Pegasus pipeline in Mayflower,[Read More…]
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