Day: August 7, 2013

Prairie State College Professor Natalie McGathey Selected as Project ACCCESS Fellow

CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  Prairie State College (PSC) Assistant Professor Natalie J. McGathey recently was selected to be a fellow of Project ACCCESS (Advancing Community College Careers: Education, Scholarship and Service) by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC). She is one of only 24 math faculty members in[Read More…]

Mayor Emanuel Visits Greencorps Youth Program

600 At-Risk Youth Close to Completing Summer Jobs Program Mayor Emanuel visits with young people participating in Greencorps.  Photo credit: Brooke Collins, City of Chicago. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel today visited with students in the City’s Greencorps Youth program, the $2.5 million program that is providing 600 summer[Read More…]

Groups Score Victory in Fracking Wastewater Fight

Tough court settlement sets the bar for fracking wastewater in PA Harrisburg, PA–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern Pennsylvania might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated[Read More…]

Interior Secretary Jewell Visits North Dakota’s Bakken Region

Tours Oil and Gas Production Facilities, Theodore Roosevelt National Park;  As Part of President’s Climate Action Plan, Inspects Innovative Technologies to Capture Methane Emissions DICKINSON, N.D.–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  Underscoring the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy and comprehensive Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell[Read More…]

Toysmith Recalls Toy Light-Up Frogs and Ducks Due to Choking Hazard; Sold Exclusively at Cost Plus World Market

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Recall date: August 07, 2013 Recall number: 13-259 Recalled yellow, clear and pink ducks and green frog Recall Summary Name of product:  Light-up toy[Read More…]

‘Blueprint for Balance’ Outlines Recommendations for Conserving National Parks, Public Lands amid the Energy Boom

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  The rapid expansion of oil and gas production in the United States is bringing tens of thousands of new wells and well pads to America’s public lands, pushing drill rigs into local communities, prized hunting habitat, national parks, and watersheds that provide drinking water. A report[Read More…]

Wal-Mart Signs Corporate-wide Settlement with U.S. Labor Department

Agreement resolves OSHA citations at Rochester, N.Y., store following 2011 inspections WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.   Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., has entered into a corporate-wide settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to improve safety and health conditions in all 2,857 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores under federal jurisdiction. The settlement,[Read More…]

Governor Quinn Signs Legislation Creating Violence Prevention Task Force

Signs Bill After Hundreds of Chicago Youth Sign Anti-Violence Pledge; Bipartisan Task Force Charged With Curbing Violence in Illinois Communities CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  Governor Pat Quinn today signed legislation creating a task force to combat the epidemic of violence impacting today’s youth. As part of the Governor’s agenda to improve[Read More…]

State Department Briefing by Jen Psaki, August 7, 2013

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013. Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Anniversary of Embassy Bombings YEMEN Counterterrorism Operations / Embassy Security DEPARTMENT Goal to Disrupt, Dismantle, and Defeat al-Qaida Travel Warnings / Embassy Security Post by Post Decisions / Sharing Information with Other Governments SYRIA Reports of Attacks on Civilians / Al[Read More…]

Statement by the U.S. State Department on the Sentencing of Somali Pirates Involved in the Attack on the S/V QUEST

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 7, 2013.  The Department of State welcomes the August 2 sentencing of three Somali pirates in the Federal District Court of Virginia for the February 2011 murder of four abducted American citizens Scott Adam, Jean Adam, Phyllis Macay, and Robert Riggle aboard the yacht QUEST off the coast[Read More…]

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