City Works to Educate Retailers on New Law to go into Effect July 1; Increased Enforcement to Ensure Safe and Lawful Business Practice across All Neighborhoods CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) today reminded retailers across the city about steps[Read More…]
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Mayor Emanuel Announces One Million Books Giveaway to Ensure More Children Engage In Reading This Summer
Chicago Public Library’s Largest Book Giveaway Ever; One Million Free Books for Rahm’s Readers Summer Learning Challenge CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Commissioner Brian Bannon today announced that Chicago Public Library will give away over one million books to children across the city during Rahm’s Readers Summer Learning[Read More…]
Food Movement Leaders Slam Biases in So-called ‘Smart’ Labels
GMO labeling plan fails to address poverty, rural communities and lack of connectivity WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Three of the largest organizations in America’s food movement have united in a broad campaign to inform the U.S. Senate of the discriminatory limits of any compromise to GMO labeling measures which relies[Read More…]
HHS Selects Regional Ebola Treatment Center for Southwestern U.S.
Part of a network of 10 regional facilities expanding U.S. ability to respond to outbreaks of severe, highly infectious diseases Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Putting in place the final piece of a regional network to treat patients infected with severe, highly infectious diseases, the U.S. Department of Health and Human[Read More…]
FDA Approves AspireAssist Obesity Device
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new obesity treatment device that uses a surgically-placed tube to drain a portion of the stomach contents after every meal. The AspireAssist device should not be used on patients with eating disorders, and it is not[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Senate Republicans Attack Clean Water & Air in EPA Spending Bill
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Today, Republicans working on a spending bill in the the Senate’s Interior-EPA subcommittee used the opportunity to attack safeguards and protections that protect clean air, clean water and endangered species. In Response, Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce Released the Following Statement: “One of the[Read More…]
Lawsuit Initiated Over Politically Motivated Decision Denying Protection to Pacific Fishers
Rare carnivore has been reduced to two populations in California, Oregon The fisher is closely related to but larger than the American Marten. Bethany Weeks/ USFWS CC BY 3.0 Sacramento, Calif. —(ENEWSPF)–June 13, 2016. Four conservation groups filed a notice of intent today to challenge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife[Read More…]
Hundreds of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Pollute Americans’ Bodies
From Environmental Working Group (EWG), First Complete Inventory of Carcinogens in the U.S. Population WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are building up in the bodies of Americans, according to the first comprehensive inventory of the carcinogens that have been measured in people. EWG released the inventory today. EWG spent[Read More…]
Kansas Must Begin Registering 18,000 Eligible Voters It Had Illegally Blocked
TOPEKA, Kan. —(ENEWSPF)–June 14, 2016. Today marks the deadline for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to start registering more than 18,000 Kansans who have tried to register to vote but were blocked from doing so under the state’s illegal documentation requirements. A federal appeals court recently rejected Kobach’s[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Files Suit Against Ford Heights Recycling Company Following Fire
Court Grants Attorney General Madigan’s Request for Immediate Relief Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–June 13, 2016. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced a lawsuit against a suburban recycling company following a tire fire that jeopardized air and water quality. Madigan filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against Illinois-based GMI Recycling[Read More…]
