Progress continuing toward launch of next-generation GOES-R satellite GOES-12 captured this visible image of Hurricane Katrina on August 28, 2005, at 11:45 a.m. (EDT). At that time, the storm was at Category 5 strength and projected to impact New Orleans. High resolution (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013. GOES-12 has[Read More…]
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MIT team Discovers an Exoplanet That Orbits its Star in 8.5 Hours
Waking Up to a New Year Image: Cristina Sanchis Ojeda CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013. In the time it takes you to complete a single workday, or get a full night’s sleep, a small fireball of a planet 700 light-years away has already completed an entire year. Researchers at MIT have[Read More…]
Glaring Mismanagement Found In Administration of Texas Imperiled Species Conservation Plan By the State’s Comptroller
HOUSTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013 – Adding to a string of recent state and federal governmental transparency issues, the Texas Comptroller’s Office finds itself at the center of a scandal involving a highly criticized state plan that ostensibly is designed to conserve the imperiled dunes sagebrush lizard. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife[Read More…]
EPA’s New Pesticide Label Inadequate for Honey Bee Protection
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new pesticide label for honey bee protection, announced Thursday, have been widely criticized by beekeepers and environmentalists as offering inadequate protection in the face of devastating bee decline. Under the new guidelines, the labels will prohibit the use of some[Read More…]
CDC Provides Estimate of Americans Diagnosed With Lyme Disease Each Year
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 19, 2013. Preliminary estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000. The preliminary estimates were presented Sunday night in Boston at the 2013 International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne[Read More…]
Governor Chris Christie Eases Access to New Jersey’s Medical Marijuana Program for Sick Children
Calls for Lifting Three-Strain Cultivation Limit, Allowing Edible Consumption for Children and Giving Parents Choice Trenton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2013. Acting with the belief that parents, and not government regulators, are best suited to decide how to care for their children, Governor Chris Christie today acted to ease access for sick[Read More…]
Department of Justice Sues Luminant for Failing to Clean Up Coal Plants
Luminant failed to protect Texans from toxic air pollution Dallas, TX–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2013. Today the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an enforcement action in federal district court against Luminant Generating Company, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, for violations of the Clean Air Act. The DOJ filed the[Read More…]
EPA Requires Bad River Band to Upgrade Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a compliance plan requiring the Bad River Band of Lake Superior and Chippewa Indians to correct Clean Water Act violations at the wastewater treatment facilities located on the Tribe’s northern Wisconsin reservation. The Bad River Band must upgrade plant operations[Read More…]
Pretreating Aggressive Lymphoma with Targeted Therapy Improves Chemotherapy Effectiveness
Low Doses of an Approved Drug Switches on Pathway that Allows Chemotherapy to Kill Cancer NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2013 — Patients with an aggressive lymphoma that often relapses and kills within two years experienced a remission of their cancer and stayed disease-free as long as 28 months after taking a[Read More…]
Senator Kirk, Congressman Davis Convene Health Care Advisory Board
Receive Update on Illinois’ Critical Health Care Industry SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–August 16, 2013. With the Senate on break from legislative session, U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), alongside U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville), today convened Senator Kirk’s Health Care Advisory Board at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield to discuss a wide range of[Read More…]
