CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2014. A former Chicago tax preparer pleaded guilty to filing nearly 3,200 false federal income tax returns for clients, while in a separate case in Federal Court yesterday, a suburban tax preparer was sentenced to 63 months in prison for fraudulently claiming more than $8 million in tax[Read More…]
Day: January 9, 2014
EPA Begins Requiring California Oil Companies to Report Fracking Chemical Discharges in Federal Waters
New Rule Allows Petroleum Industry to Continue Dumping Toxins Into Ocean SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency today established a new requirement for oil and gas operations off the Southern California coast to publicly report chemicals dumped directly into the ocean from offshore fracking operations. The notice, formally[Read More…]
Congresswoman Duckworth Calls on Congress to Extend Unemployment Insurance
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) spoke on the floor the House of Representatives in support of extending unemployment insurance for more than 80,000 Illinois families. The video and text of her remarks are included below. Mr. Speaker, Lynn Richards of Elgin, Illinois, a town in Illinois that is[Read More…]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Traveling by Car Uses Most Energy
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Fuel economy must improve 57 percent in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights, says a University of Michigan researcher. Michael Sivak, a research professor at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, examined recent trends in the amount of energy[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel, Law Department to Ask Court for Six-Month Delay for Guns Sales in Chicago
Time Needed to Develop and Adopt Ordinance to Regulate Gun Sales CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today has instructed Corporation Counsel Stephen Patton and the Chicago Department of Law to ask United States District Court Judge Edmond E. Chang to delay the effective date of his recent ruling by[Read More…]
Interior Secretary Jewell Announces $1 Million Private Funding Commitment to Advance Youth & Conservation Initiative
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is First Company to Pledge to Newest Public-Private Partnership to Develop Next Generation of Outdoor Stewards WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. As part of an ambitious initiative to engage and employ the next generation through America’s great outdoors, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell yesterday announced a[Read More…]
Blast From the Sun on Path Towards Earth
Image of the sun on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, from the Solar X-Ray Imager on NOAA’s GOES satellite, taken just after the maximum emission of a solar flare. The eruption came from the middle of the sun and is directed toward Earth. This is the largest solar flare so far[Read More…]
Two Million Years Ago, Human Relative ‘Nutcracker Man’ Lived on Tiger Nuts
Skull of ‘Nutcracker Man’ (Image: Donald C Johanson) UK—(ENEWSPF)-9 January 2014. An Oxford University study has concluded that our ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million-1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts. Tiger nuts are edible grass bulbs still eaten in parts[Read More…]
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Availability of $24.9 Million to Put More Zero-Emission Buses into Service Across America
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2014. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $24.9 million through its brand new Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo) that will put a new generation of advanced, non-polluting transit buses on the road in communities nationwide. The funds are[Read More…]
Offshore Corporate Profits: The Only Thing ‘Trapped’ Is Tax Revenue
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2014. Trapped offshore profits are neither overseas nor trapped. Rather, they are accounting illusions that provide multinational corporations yet another loophole to skirt taxes, according to a new report released today by the Center for American Progress. The report disproves arguments that claim that there is a large[Read More…]
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