Day: December 8, 2011

SEIU Still Proudly Endorses President Obama In 2012

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released the following statement about a fake press release purporting that SEIU had pulled the endorsement of President Obama made by SEIU members on November 16: “We stand by our endorsement of President Obama as part of a broader ’99[Read More…]

NOAA: Autumn and November both warmer than average in the United States

U.S. sets record with a dozen billion-dollar weather disasters in one year Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011 Billion dollar weather/climate disasters 1980 – November 2011. Download here. (Credit: NOAA) November and the September-November autumn season were warmer than average across the contiguous U.S., according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center[Read More…]

Statement by President Obama, December 8, 2011

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011 – 11:40 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Good morning, everybody.  A couple of days ago I said that we are in a make-or-break moment when it comes to America’s middle class.  We either have a country where everybody fends for themselves, or we create a country where[Read More…]

Governor Quinn Announces U.S. Surgeon General and National Prevention Council Meeting in Illinois

Meeting of Council to Promote Health, Prevention and Wellness Nationwide  CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011. The State of Illinois today welcomed U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin and other members of the National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council) to Illinois. Members met in Chicago today for[Read More…]

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Obstruction of Richard Cordray To Head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011. Undermining the new era of Wall Street accountability is exactly what Senate Republicans intended by today’s filibuster of the nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  The vote had nothing to do with his outstanding qualifications, but with the very idea of[Read More…]

NRDC: Tennessee Residents Protected from Toxic Chemical Exposure

Settlement Reached in Dickson County Contaminated Drinking Water Case NASHVILLE, TN–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011. A Tennessee community will be permanently protected from toxic well water and provided with safe municipal drinking water under a settlement reached today among the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), two members of a family whose homestead[Read More…]

Durbin Statement on the Filibuster of Richard Cordray’s Nomination to Head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011.  U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement today after the nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was blocked by filibuster: “Richard Cordray is competent, qualified, and an honorable public servant and his nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deserved[Read More…]

Fair Oaks Dairy Products Issues Voluntary Recall For Fair Oaks Farms Fine Cheeses Half Pound Packages

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2011. Fair Oaks Dairy Products, LLC, Fair Oaks, Indiana today issued a voluntary recall of certain one half pound retail packaged cheeses and cheese gift boxes produced under the Fair Oaks Farms Fine Cheese label and sold between September 30, 2011 and December 3, 2011. These[Read More…]

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