CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. Today, the City of Chicago formally announced its Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) deal, officially moving one of the nation’s largest cities away from coal-fired power. The City of Chicago developed the city’s new electricity mix based on the authority of a voter-approved referendum last fall. Sierra Club[Read More…]
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Ford Recall of Certain Model Year 2013 Ford Explorer, Taurus, and Lincoln MKS Vehicles, July 9, 2013
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 9, 2013. SUMMARY: Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain model year 2013 Ford Explorer, Taurus, and Lincoln MKS vehicles manufactured November 29, 2012, through December 12, 2012. In the affected vehicles, with sufficient door openings and closings, the child safety locks may change from an activated[Read More…]
Detecting DNA in Space
Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. If there is life on Mars, it’s not too farfetched to believe that such Martian species may share genetic roots with life on Earth. More than 3.5[Read More…]
World’s Largest Debt Collection Operation Settles FTC Charges, Will Pay $3.2 Million Penalty
Largest Civil Penalty Ever Obtained by the FTC Against a Third-party Debt Collector Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. The world’s largest debt collection operation, Expert Global Solutions and its subsidiaries, has agreed to stop harassing consumers with allegedly illegal debt collection calls and to pay a $3.2 million civil penalty –[Read More…]
Chlorpyrifos Contamination Could Lead to Trout Troubles in UK
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. A recent pesticide contamination incident in Great Britain’s Kennet River has decimated aquatic invertebrate populations on a ten mile stretch of river between the towns of Marlborough and Hungerford. The contamination occurred after a spill of the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos entered a Marlborough sewage system. The[Read More…]
Central African Republic Abandoned to its Fate
Urgent Medical and Humanitarian Needs Unmet Following Coup BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013—Three months after a coup in Central African Republic (CAR), the country remains gripped by a humanitarian emergency made worse as the international community looks on with indifference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Anonymous’ Report on the Corrections Corporation of America
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. A report released this morning by Anonymous Analytics concludes that the publicly traded prison operator Corrections Corporation of America is a bad investment for shareholders. Carl Takei, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, made the following comments on the report’s release: “The[Read More…]
ACLU Seeks Freedom to Marry for Pennsylvania Couples
Also Announces Marriage Lawsuits in Virginia and North Carolina HARRISBURG, Pa.–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and volunteer counsel from the law firm of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of 23 Pennsylvanians who wish to marry[Read More…]
Civil Liberties Groups Ask Secret Court to Let Google & Microsoft Release NSA Spying Stats
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 9, 2013. Civil liberties groups filed a brief late yesterday in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court arguing that Google and Microsoft must be ungagged so they can describe their role in the government’s surveillance of the internet. The brief supports motions filed previously by Google and Microsoft requesting[Read More…]
US Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Physician Compensation by Mobile, Ala., Health Firm
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 8, 2013. The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Infirmary Health System Inc. and its related entities: IMC-Diagnostic and Medical Clinic P.C., Diagnostic Physicians Group P.C. and Infirmary Medical Clinics P.C., the Department of Justice announced today. The lawsuit alleges that IMC-Diagnostic and Medical[Read More…]
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