Electronics with Biggest Savings Potential Placed on Slower Track SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014—The California Energy Commission’s announcement yesterday that it will establish efficiency standards for 15 product categories including lighting, consumer electronics, and water-using products will result in $2 billion in energy bill savings in the state and nationwide, according[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Bipartisan Group of Senators Call for International Monitors in Ukraine
Senators Ask OSCE to Immediately Dispatch Monitors to Follow Deteriorating Situation in Ukraine Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2014. A bipartisan group of Senators, led by Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), today sent a letter to the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, urging the international[Read More…]
DR Congo: US, UN Must Address Sexual Violence in Peace Process
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014. Addressing sexual and gender-based violence—a defining feature of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo—is critical to the success of Congo’s peace process, argues a new Enough Project report released today. The report, “Interrupting the Silence: Addressing Congo’s Sexual Violence Crisis within the Great Lakes[Read More…]
Arctic Cat Recalls Off-Highway Utility Vehicles Due to Fuel Leak and Fire Hazard
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014. Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Recall date: March 18, 2014 Recall number: 14-724 Arctic Cat Prowler 500 HDX (Red) Recall Summary Name of product: Arctic Cat Prowler 500 HDX[Read More…]
Report Provides New Data on Congress’ Dismal Land Conservation Record
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014. Today, following the designation of the first new federally protected wilderness in five years and President Barack Obama’s call for Congress to “do even more,” Equal Ground, a campaign supported by the Center for American Progress along with other organizations, released a report today that sheds[Read More…]
Utility Companies Wrong Again About the Cost of Pollution Safeguards
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2014. Today, as coal and utility companies once again predict that carbon pollution limits would result in skyrocketing electricity rates, the Center for American Progress released an analysis proving that their record as prognosticators is quite poor. The power industry’s past predictions of doom were wrong—16 percent[Read More…]
Why a Melting Arctic Could Sink the Global Economy
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2014. Today, after Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change in the Arctic “one of the most obvious shared challenges facing the planet today,” the Center for American Progress released an analysis detailing why the United States needs to take the lead on reining in climate[Read More…]
EPA Asked to Protect Bees with Over Half A Million Signatures
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014 —Today, more than 500,000 signatures were delivered to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, urging the nation’s top-ranking environmental leader to protect bees and other pollinators. The date marks the one-year anniversary of the lawsuit filed against EPA by beekeepers, food, and environmental groups,[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Files Suit Against Chicago Area Lender for Selling Short-term Loan Designed to Evade State Reforms
Attorney General Alleges All Credit Lenders’ Loans Trap Borrowers in Cycle of Debt Chicago—(ENEWSFP)—March 19, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed suit today against a Chicago area short-term lender for designing and selling a new emerging short-term loan intended to thwart important protections in Illinois law against predatory lending and[Read More…]
Terra-Medica Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Specified Lots of Pleo Homeopathic Drug Products
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 20, 2014. Terra-Medica, Inc. is voluntarily recalling 56 lots of Pleo-FORT, Pleo-QUENT, Pleo-NOT, Pleo-STOLO, Pleo-NOTA-QUENT, and Pleo-EX homeopathic drug products in liquid, tablet, capsule, ointment, and suppository forms to the consumer level. FDA has determined that these products have the potential to contain penicillin or derivatives of[Read More…]
