Agency to Determine if Graco Failed to Report Safety Defect in a Timely Manner WASHINGTON –-(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) yesterday announced that it opened an investigation into the timeliness of Graco Children’s Products, Inc.’s (Graco) reporting of a safety defect[Read More…]
Day: December 2, 2014
Ebola: International Response Slow and Uneven
An MSF staff member dons personal protective equipment at the MSF Ebola Management Center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. BRUSSELS —(ENEWSPF)–2 December 2014. The international response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa has been slow and uneven leaving local people, national governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to do most of[Read More…]
Mobility is Most Common Disability Among Older Americans, Census Bureau Reports
Download Percentage of County Population Age 65 and Over With a Disability: 2008-2012 [JPG – <1.0 MB] Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014. Nearly 40 percent of people age 65 and older had at least one disability, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report that covered the period 2008 to 2012. Of[Read More…]
UN Rights Experts Call on U.S. to Commute Death Sentence of Mentally Ill Prisoner
Photo: IRIN GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–2 December 2014 – Two United Nations human rights experts today urged the United States Government and the authorities in Texas to halt the execution of Scott Panetti, a prisoner with proven psychosocial disabilities, due to be carried out on 3 December. “The death penalty may only be[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders Details Economic Agenda for America
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today outlined a progressive economic agenda to reverse a 40-year decline of the American middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else in the United States. In a Senate floor speech, Sanders detailed measures to create millions[Read More…]
Fogo Volcano on Sentinel’s Radar
Sentinel-1 maps Fogo eruption EU–(ENEWSPF)–2 December 2014. Radar images from the Sentinel-1A satellite are helping to monitor ground movements of the recently erupted Fogo volcano. Located on Cape Verde’s Fogo island, the volcano erupted on 23 November for the first time in 19 years and has been active ever since.[Read More…]
Coast-to-Coast Coalition Urges Congress to Reject Changes to Country of Origin Labels in Budget Battle
More than 200 farm, consumer, rural, faith and other groups demand Congress to keep cool on COOL WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014. Today, a coalition of 207 farm, faith, environmental, labor, rural and consumer organizations delivered a letter to the Senate urging the legislators to reject any effort to repeal,[Read More…]
Prominent Chefs Serve Up a Message to Congress: Label GMOs
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014. More than 700 chefs – including Tom Colicchio, José Andrés, Art Smith and Sam Talbot – are urging members of Congress to support legislation to mandate labeling of genetically modified foods and to oppose efforts to block state GMO labeling laws. In a petition delivered[Read More…]
Prairie State College’s Wind Ensemble Performing Concert on December 8
CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—December 2, 2014. The Prairie State College (PSC) Wind Ensemble will perform a concert of seasonal favorites from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Monday, December 8, in the Conference Center Auditorium on the college’s main campus at 202 S. Halsted in Chicago Heights. For the first time, the adult choir[Read More…]
NRDC: ALEC Conference’s Agenda For State Lawmakers Is ‘Limited Government, Unlimited Pollution’
On Eve of ALEC Conference for Lawmakers, Issue Brief Outlines Radical Group’s Agenda to Gut EPA and State Environmental Safeguards; 111 Groups Urge State Legislators to Shun ALEC and Its Pro-Pollution WASHINGTON, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–December 2, 2014 — When state lawmakers gather in Washington, D.C. tomorrow for the American Legislative Exchange[Read More…]
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