Mayoral Task Force Sets Public Hearings and Launches New Website to Give All Residents a Voice in the Process of Developing a Balanced Plan to Increase the Minimum Wage in Chicago CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. The Minimum Wage Working Group tasked by Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week with creating a consensus[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
City of Chicago Sues Big Pharma for Deceptively Marketing Highly Addictive Prescription Painkillers
Drug Manufacturers Knowingly Downplayed Serious Risks, Promoted Unfounded Benefits Associated With Highly Addictive Painkillers CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced that the City of Chicago has filed a lawsuit in Illinois state court against five pharmaceutical manufacturers for misrepresenting the benefits of opioids, a class of highly addictive[Read More…]
Dealing with Climate Change: A Moral Obligation
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. By Sally Jewell, U.S. Secretary of the Interior President Obama understands that we have a moral obligation to future generations to leave our land, water and wildlife better than we found it. The Administration this week unveiled another historic milestone in the President’s bold Climate[Read More…]
NATO Steps Up Collective Defence, Support for Reforms in Ukraine
BELGIUM–(ENEWSPF)–3 June 2014. NATO Defence Ministers on Tuesday (3 June 2014) agreed to continue and further reinforce NATO’s reassurance measures in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. “This is a time for all Allies to play a part, and all Allies are doing so”, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen[Read More…]
Groups Fight to Protect Endangered Species From Dangerous New Pesticide
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. Conservation and food safety groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to protect endangered species from a new, toxic pesticide called cyantraniliprole. EPA risked far-reaching harm to both aquatic and terrestrial species by approving the widespread use of this new pesticide in[Read More…]
Tonto National Forest Pushes Plan for 3,700 Miles of Off-road Vehicle Routes
Plan Threatens Mexican Spotted Owls, Endangered Flycatchers, Watersheds PHOENIX—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a new travel-management plan for Arizona’s Tonto National Forest that would allow off-road vehicles on more than 3,700 miles and risk destruction of watersheds and wild areas, including habitat for endangered species like[Read More…]
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Threatened Marbled Murrelets From Clearcutting on Liquidated Oregon State Forests
Logging of Parcels Liquidated from Elliott State Forest Will Harm Marbled Murrelets, Other Wildlife, Water and People EUGENE, Ore.–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. Conservation groups filed a notice of intent to sue Seneca Jones and Scott Timber today to prevent the imminent clearcutting of three large parcels of Elliott State Forest lands[Read More…]
Citizen Groups Slam Cuomo Administration Threats Over Oil-terminal Lawsuit
Call Threats of Financial Sanctions If Lawsuit Is Filed Over Global Expansion “Bullying” NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. A coalition of community and environmental organizations today criticized the Cuomo administration’s threat to seek financial sanctions against tenants of a public housing project and environmental groups if they file a lawsuit challenging[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Continues Push to Properly Fund Education in Illinois
Urges Critical Investment in Education to Give Every Child the Opportunity for Success CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today visited students and teachers at the Jane Addams Elementary School in Chicago to continue his push to properly fund education in Illinois. In March, Governor Quinn proposed an honest and[Read More…]
Los Angeles Physician Indicted in $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 3, 2014. A Los Angeles physician was indicted today for a $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California, Special Agent in Charge Glenn R. Ferry[Read More…]
