WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. A bill was introduced today in the Senate that would end a ban on insurance coverage of abortion care for military women and dependents in cases of rape and incest and would repeal the ban on using private funds to obtain abortion care on military bases. The[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Report from U.N. Human Rights Expert Expresses Grave Concern over Deportations to Haiti
GENEVA, Switzerland–(ENEWSPF)–16 June 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union, along with more than 50 other groups, at a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council today called on the U.S. to stop deportations to Haiti. The joint statement condemning the deportations came as the U.N. Independent Expert on the situation[Read More…]
DOE Offers Support for Innovative Manufacturing Plant That Will Produce High Quality Solar Silicon at Low Cost
Project to Create Significant Solar Manufacturing Efficiencies and is Expected to Generate Over 2,000 Jobs Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the offer of a conditional commitment for a $275 million loan guarantee to Calisolar Inc. to commercialize its innovative solar silicon manufacturing process. Calisolar’s[Read More…]
DOE Announces Over $30 Million to Help Universities Train the Next Generation of Industrial Energy Efficiency Experts
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the availability of more than $30 million to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency to help them become the nation’s next generation of industrial energy efficiency experts. Through the Industrial Assessment Center program, university teams across the[Read More…]
Durbin Announces Nearly $21 Million in DOT Funding for O’Hare Noise Mitigation
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded $20,900,000 in funding to Ridgewood High School District 234 for measures aimed at mitigating noise from O’Hare International Airport. Today’s grant follows a Federal Aviation Administration review of a 2009[Read More…]
Durbin Responds to Judiciary Committee Republicans’ Request for Hearings on Balanced Budget Amendment
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) sent a letter to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and the other Republican members of the Judiciary Committee today, in response to their request for hearings on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Durbin, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee[Read More…]
Matteson Man Charged With Allegedly Dealing Cocaine
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. Bond has been set at $75,000 for a Matteson man charged with selling cocaine, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Tuesday. Lamondra Townsend, 40, of the 6200 block of West Beaver Dam Road in Matteson has been charged with possession of a controlled substance – cocaine,[Read More…]
Key Step Identified in Legionnaire’s Disease Infection Process
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. NIH researchers have uncovered a key step in the biochemical sequence the bacterium which causes Legionnaire’s disease uses to reproduce inside the cells it infects. The bacterium is known to activate a cell protein to help it hide from the cell’s defenses while it reproduces. In[Read More…]
NIH Researchers Identify New Marker to Predict Progressive Kidney Failure, Death
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. A high level of a hormone that regulates phosphate is associated with an increased risk of kidney failure and death among chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a recent study led by researchers at the University of Miami and funded by the National Institute of[Read More…]
Obama Administration Releases National Prevention Strategy
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. Today, members of the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council, including Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin (Chair), as well as Senator Tom Harkin and Domestic Policy Council (DPC) Director Melody Barnes, announced the release of[Read More…]
