Day: March 7, 2017

Trumpcare Goes Way Beyond Repealing the Affordable Care Act – It Guts Medicaid That’s Been in Place for 50 Years

“If Republicans thought facing their constituents during the February Congressional Recess was tough, just wait until the April recess. We aren’t going away.” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017.  LeeAnn Hall, co-director of People’s Action, provided this statement responding to the health care legislation released Monday. Hall serves on the executive committee[Read More…]

Argonne National Laboratory Invents Reusable Sponge That Soaks Up Oil, Could Revolutionize Spill Cleanup (Video)

Foam called Oleo Sponge pulls dispersed oil from water, including below surface Argonne postdoctoral researcher Ed Barry wrings out a sheet of Oleo Sponge during tests at Argonne. Photo by: Mark Lopez/Argonne National Laboratory CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017 By: Louise Lerner When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years[Read More…]

Chicago Mayor Emanuel, Paris Mayor Hidalgo Announce 19 Mayors from Around the World to Attend Urban Waterways Forum in Chicago on March 13

Mayors attending the forum to discuss the potential of waterways on urban development span five continents, 12 countries and represent 45 million people CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017. After announcing that the Cities of Chicago and Paris would co-host a worldwide mayoral forum in Chicago on March 13, 2017, Mayor Rahm Emanuel[Read More…]

Vulto Creamery Issues Voluntary Recall of All Soft, Wash-Rind Raw Milk Cheeses Because of Possible Health Risk

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017.  Vulto Creamery, Walton, New York, is recalling all lots of Ouleout, Miranda, Heinennellie, and Willowemoc soft wash-rind raw milk cheeses  out of an abundance of caution due to testing result from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), which found Ouleout lot # 617 positive[Read More…]

Leaders from Center for American Progress and 19 Organizations Ask Sec. John Kelly to Halt Deportation of DREAMers in DHS Custody

DREAMer, Daniela Vargas listens at a news conference in Jackson, Miss. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP) Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–March 7, 2017.  Today, Neera Tanden, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress, and the heads of 19 other leading progressive organizations—ranging from traditional civil rights groups to immigrants’ rights groups to unions—sent[Read More…]

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