SOUTH HOLLAND, IL–(ENEWSPF)—November 19, 2014. Registration for South Suburban College’s tuition-free educational program for unemployed residents–Rebound–will open again on Monday, December 8, 2014. Rebound classes are offered in 19 select academic areas offering short-term certificates or degrees leading to new, rewarding careers. Learn more about Rebound or begin the process[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Pennsylvania Firm Expands Recalls Pretzel Dog Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Nove,ber 18, 2014 – City Line Foods Manufacturing Co., a Lancaster, Pa., establishment is expanding their recall to include an additional 12,282 pounds of frozen pretzel hot dog products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. This brings[Read More…]
UN Urges ‘Fast-Track’ Approach to End AIDS Epidemic by 2030
Photo: UNAIDS GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–18 November 2014 – Taking a fast-track approach in the battle against AIDS over the next five years will avert 21 million deaths and allow the world to end the epidemic by 2030, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said in a new report published today.[Read More…]
Amid ‘Monstrous’ Violence, ISIL Aims to Tear Iraq Apart, Build ‘State of Terror,’ Warn UN Officials
Security Council meets on the situation in Iraq. UN Photo/Loey Felipe NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–18 November 2014 – The atrocious crimes perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) risk plunging Iraq into catastrophe as the country reels from bitter sectarian tensions and a growing humanitarian crisis affecting over[Read More…]
Senators Warren, Warner Urge FHFA Action on Housing Finance Infrastructure and Access to Credit
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) today wrote a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Melvin Watt urging the agency to take steps “to build a housing finance infrastructure for the future, enhance the role of private capital in[Read More…]
NRDC: Senate Rejects Bid to Force Approval of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014 – Despite strong lobbying by oil-industry allies, the U.S. Senate tonight defeated an effort to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The following is a statement by Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council: “The bill would have turned Congress into a permitting authority,[Read More…]
Sierra Club Statement on Senate’s Rejection of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. Tonight, legislation to advance approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline failed to gather sixty votes in the Senate. In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement: “We applaud the Senators who stood up for the health of our families and[Read More…]
350.0rg: Keystone XL Bill Defeated in the Senate
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014. In response to a vote in the United States Senate on the Keystone XL pipeline, 350.org Executive Director May Boeve issued the following statement: “Once again, Congress tried to play games with our future–and failed. Since Keystone XL has always been President Obama’s decision, this vote[Read More…]
Council on American-Islamic Relations Condemns Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue
WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem that left four worshipers dead, including three Rabbis with American citizenship. In a statement, CAIR said: “We condemn this and any[Read More…]
Building Tar Sands Pipeline Would Be ‘Insane,’ Senator Bernie Sanders Says
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today that it would be “insane” to construct the Keystone XL pipeline to ship the dirtiest oil on the planet from Canada’s tar sands region to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. “The scientific community is telling us that we have[Read More…]
