Plan to address Legionnaires’ disease includes new plumbing, faster test results, new water sources Quincy, IL—(ENEWSPF)—January 11, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Yesterday, Governor Bruce Rauner laid out plans for minimizing Legionella bacteria risks at the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy. The Governor spent a week in residence to assess for[Read More…]
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About 3,500 Babies in the US are Lost to Sleep-related Deaths Each Year
Vital Signs report signals need for more caregivers to follow safe-sleep practices Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2018. There are about 3,500 sleep-related deaths among U.S. babies each year, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accidental suffocation, and deaths from unknown causes. In the 1990s, there were sharp declines in sleep-related deaths[Read More…]
NOAA Kicks Off 2018 with Massive Supercomputer Upgrade
Faster computers with more storage will boost accuracy, efficiency of U.S. weather models Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2018 By: Susan Buchanan NOAA’s combined weather and climate supercomputing system will be among the 30 fastest in the world, with the ability to process 8 quadrillion calculations per second, when two Dell systems[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Analysis: Infrastructure Plan Must Not Undermine Endangered Species Act
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2018 By: Ryan Richards and Kyle Cornish As President Donald Trump prepares to announce his version of an infrastructure plan, lawmakers must reject any proposal that presents a false choice between environmental protection and infrastructure investment. The president’s plan will be good for large developers but[Read More…]
UChicago Study Finds Mass Extinctions Remove Species But Not Ecological Variety
Study could shed light on patterns for current mass extinction CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2018 By: Louise Lerner Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with about half of all the species on Earth, staggered and died. But in the seas, a colorful population of[Read More…]
Audubon Invites Photographers to Enter 2018 Photo Awards Contest
Winning entries will be published in Audubon magazine and displayed within the Nature’s Best Photography Exhibition at the Smithsonian for one year. NEW YORK —(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2018 By: Nicolas Gonzalez Today, the National Audubon Society, in association with Nature’s Best Photography, announces its annual bird photography contest: the 2018 Audubon Photography[Read More…]
Stem Cell Transplant for Severe Scleroderma Improves Survival, Quality of Life
NIH-funded study finds transplantation superior to treatment with immune-suppressing drug. Bethesda, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2018 By: Hillary Hoffman New clinical trial findings show that a therapeutic regimen involving transplantation of a person’s own blood-forming stem cells can improve survival and quality of life for people with severe scleroderma, a life-threatening autoimmune[Read More…]
Trump Administration’s New Leasing Plan Would Expand Offshore Drilling Everywhere
Earthjustice to continue fighting reversal of safeguards against drilling in Arctic and Atlantic Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2018 By: Rebecca Bowe The Trump administration unveiled its proposed Five-Year Plan for offshore leasing yesterday. This proposal—which identifies which offshore territories could ultimately be auctioned off to the fossil fuel industry for oil[Read More…]
Illinois Department of Public Health Posts CDC Legionnaires’ Disease Report
SPRINGFIELD –(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2018. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has posted the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report addressing the Legionnaires’ disease cases at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy (IVHQ). CDC generated the report after a visit in December 2017 by environmental health[Read More…]
UChicago’s Computational Astrophysics Team Uncloaks Magnetic Fields of Cosmic Events
New method enhances study of stars, black holes in laboratory settings CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2018 By: Rob Mitchum The development of ultra-intense lasers delivering the same power as the entire U.S. power grid has enabled the study of cosmic phenomena such as supernovae and black holes in earthbound laboratories. Now, a[Read More…]
