Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (second left) speaks at Climate Finance Ministerial lunch in Lima, Peru. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe PERU–(ENEWSPF)–9 October 2015 – Stressing that financial resources are central to meeting the goals of the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Agenda, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said that in order[Read More…]
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Senator Durbin Calls on VA and Department of Education to Review DOD’s Findings on University of Phoenix and Take Action
For-profit college is under investigation by at least three State Attorneys General, the SEC, the FTC & the Education Department’s Inspector General WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)—October 9, 2015. Following the decision by the Department of Defense (DOD) to place the University of Phoenix on probation and prohibit the company from enrolling new[Read More…]
Bill O’Reilly on the House Benghazi Committee: ‘Of Course It’s Political’
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. A penchant for truth telling is spreading across the Republican Party. Last night on FOX, leading conservative voice Bill O’Reilly echoed House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s comments on the House Benghazi Committee’s partisan nature. While the American people have always known that the Benghazi Committee is a taxpayer-funded campaign[Read More…]
Use of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods Continues to Increase in the United States
Increases in These Highly Effective Methods Seen Across Virtually All Groups of Women NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. U.S. women are increasingly turning to highly effective long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods—particularly IUDs. According to “Changes in Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods Among United States Women, 2009–2012,” by Guttmacher Institute researchers[Read More…]
NARAL Pro-Choice America Statement on 4th Hearing to Defund Planned Parenthood
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 8, 2015. Statement from Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America: “Once again, we are being subjected to the consequences of anti-choice politicians’ obsession with Planned Parenthood. It’s little wonder Rep. McCarthy would drop out of the race for House speaker this morning, given the dysfunction and[Read More…]
NASA Releases Plan Outlining Next Steps in the Journey to Mars
An artist’s depiction of the Earth Reliant, Proving Ground and Earth Independent thresholds, showing key capabilities that will be developed along the way. The space station is the only microgravity platform for the long-term testing of new life support and crew health systems, advanced habitat modules, and other technologies needed[Read More…]
NOAA Awards $5.7 Million to Improve Hazardous Weather Forecasts
Research to focus on improved prediction of tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, snow (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan announced today $5.7 million in cooperative research agreements and grants to improve the forecasting of hazardous and extreme weather including tornadoes, hurricanes, heavy rainfall, floods and snowstorms. “These research[Read More…]
UPDATE: Governors State University – Bomb Threat Cleared
UNIVERSITY PARK–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. UPDATE: October 9, 2015 – 6:20 p.m. CST. After a thorough assessment of the parking lots, including the use of bomb-sniffing dogs, university police issued an all-clear for those areas. As an added precaution, police conducted a thorough search of all campus buildings. Police found no[Read More…]
Privatized Meat Inspection Experiment Jeopardizes Food Safety
An analysis based on inspection documents and non-compliance reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveals large numbers of defects being missed in the USDA’s controversial pilot project for privatized poultry inspection. Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015. In the name of budget-cutting, more defective and unsanitary poultry contaminated with[Read More…]
California Poised to Set Strictest Antibiotics Standards for Livestock Use in the Nation
SACRAMENTO–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2015 – By the end of the weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown will announce his decision on legislation by Sen. Jerry Hill that sets the strictest limits in the U.S. on the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in meat production. The bill will help protect the efficacy of[Read More…]
