Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today a Peoria-area man was sentenced to one and a half years in jail with six months probation and ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution to consumers for scamming them out of thousands of dollars in home repair work he[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
South Dakota Governor Signs Law Creating Unprecedented Obstacles For Women’s Health
PIERRE, S.D.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011. The governor of South Dakota signed into law today a bill that requires any woman seeking an abortion to first visit anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) and report the name of the physician providing the abortion to CPC staff. The law also requires a woman to[Read More…]
Defense Department Does Not Compile Total Number Of Civilians Killed In Drone Strikes
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011. The Department of Defense (DOD) has confirmed that it does not compile statistics about the total number of civilians that have been killed by its unmanned drone aircraft. The DOD disclosed this information in a letter in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit[Read More…]
Doctors Without Borders: ‘We Are Striving To Get Back Into Libya’
Alexandria, Egypt–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011. On March 15, as the fighting in Libya intensified and moved further east, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams left Benghazi due to increased insecurity. From Alexandria, Egypt, MSF emergency coordinator Simon Burroughs talks about the team’s efforts to get back into Libya and the[Read More…]
Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, March 22, 2011 (2:30 PM EDT)
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011 – 2:30 P.M. EDT. According to the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which manages three radiation measurement areas for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, radiation levels in the United States have not exceeded natural background levels since before the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. These levels[Read More…]
International Atomic Energy Agency Japan Earthquake Update, 22 March (18:00 UTC)
Vienna, Austria–(ENEWSPF)–22 March 2011 -18:00 UTC. Spent Fuel Pools at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant – Updated Spent fuel removed from a nuclear reactor is highly radioactive and generates intense heat. This irradiated fuel needs to be actively cooled for one to three years in pools that cool the fuel,[Read More…]
Durbin Announces More than $800,000 in FEMA Grants to IL Fire Departments
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has awarded eight grants totaling $834,272 to fire departments and municipalities throughout Illinois. “Our nation’s firefighters are called upon day after day to protect America’s[Read More…]
Nearly 4 Million Medicare Beneficiaries Receive Help With Prescription Drug Cost Under Affordable Care Act
Savings From New Drug Discounts in 2011 Already Total $38 Million Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2011. Through provisions of the Affordable Care Act, nearly 4 million people with Medicare who reached the program’s Part D coverage gap in 2010 have received a one-time, tax-free $250 rebate check. U.S. Department of Health[Read More…]
UN Human Rights Office Voices Concern at Recent Events in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 March 2011 – The United Nations human rights office today voiced its deep concern at recent events in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria, including the excessive use of force and killing of protesters, while stressing the responsibility of Governments to uphold basic freedoms, even in times of instability. Rupert[Read More…]
Thousands Flee Abidjan as Violence Intensifies in Côte d’Ivoire – UN
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 March 2011 – Thousands of residents of Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan, have been flocking to bus stations seeking transport out of the city fearing that an all-out war is in the offing after an escalation of violence, the United Nations refugee agency reported today. As many as[Read More…]
