An artist’s depiction of the Earth Reliant, Proving Ground and Earth Independent thresholds, showing key capabilities that will be developed along the way. The space station is the only microgravity platform for the long-term testing of new life support and crew health systems, advanced habitat modules, and other technologies needed[Read More…]
Day: October 9, 2015
NOAA Awards $5.7 Million to Improve Hazardous Weather Forecasts
Research to focus on improved prediction of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, snow (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan announced today $5.7 million in cooperative research agreements and grants to improve the forecasting of hazardous and extreme weather including tornadoes, hurricanes, heavy rainfall, floods and snowstorms. “These research[Read More…]
UPDATE: Governors State University – Bomb Threat Cleared
UNIVERSITY PARK–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. UPDATE: October 9, 2015 – 6:20 p.m. CST. After a thorough assessment of the parking lots, including the use of bomb-sniffing dogs, university police issued an all-clear for those areas. As an added precaution, police conducted a thorough search of all campus buildings. Police found no[Read More…]
Privatized Meat Inspection Experiment Jeopardizes Food Safety
An analysis based on inspection documents and non-compliance reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveals large numbers of defects being missed in the USDA’s controversial pilot project for privatized poultry inspection. Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. In the name of budget-cutting, more defective and unsanitary poultry contaminated with[Read More…]
California Poised to Set Strictest Antibiotics Standards for Livestock Use in the Nation
SACRAMENTO–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015 – By the end of the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown will announce his decision on legislation by Sen. Jerry Hill that sets the strictest limits in the U.S. on the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in meat production. The bill will help protect the efficacy of[Read More…]
Alliance for Retired Americans Friday Alert, Oct. 9, 2015
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. Negotiators Reach a Deal on TPP – Alliance Members Focus on Stopping it After five years of secret negotiations, representatives from 12 countries came to an agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Monday. If implemented, the deal would allow drug companies to lock in patent protections on[Read More…]
Ibsen’s ‘The Lady from the Sea’ Launches Season on the Healy Stage at DePaul University
Henrik Ibsen’s “The Lady from the Sea” will be presented by The Theatre School at DePaul University as the first production of the season in the Sondra & Denis Healy Theatre. The work premieres Oct. 23 and runs through Nov. 1. (Artwork courtesy of Grip Design) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2015.[Read More…]
NRDC: Exporting U.S. Crude Oil Would Boost Climate Pollution and Risks to Communities
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015 –The following is a statement by Franz Matzner, director of the Beyond Oil Initiative at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on a pending House bill—which faces a presidential veto—to remove the four-decade-old prohibition on U.S. exports of crude oil: “Lifting the oil export ban is a[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Launches National Grassroots Effort to Raise Awareness for Nutrition Assistance Programs
Grapes are served during preschool lunch at the Latin American Community Center in Wilmington, Delaware, 2009. Source: AP/Steve Ruark Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. The Center for American Progress—along with its partners Witnesses to Hunger, the Coalition on Human Needs, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the[Read More…]
Statement by the Defense Dept. on Syria, Oct. 9, 2015
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2015. Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook provided the following statement: Last year the Department of Defense received authorization from Congress to train and equip moderate opposition forces in Syria as one of several lines of effort to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[Read More…]
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