Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 10, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on May 8 a final rule to revise and update use patterns and data requirements for antimicrobial pesticides. Though the new rule is the first revision to EPA data requirements for antimicrobial pesticide registrations since 1984, and the registration[Read More…]
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Senators Kirk, Manchin Bipartisan Group of Senators Continue Fight to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse
Senators write letter to FDA Commissioner declaring process to reschedule highly addictive prescription drugs has exceeded “reasonable time” WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and a bipartisan group of seven other Members of Congress sent a bipartisan letter to the Commissioner of the Food and[Read More…]
Rep. Schakowsky Reintroduces the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013 – Rep. Jan Schakowsky Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act: “In honor of National Nurses Week, I reintroduced the Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act today. This bill will help save the lives of patients by improving nursing[Read More…]
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Delays Gina McCarthy Nomination Vote
Republicans request answers during vote postponement Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. Today, the eight Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee did not attend the nomination vote of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), leading to a postponement of the vote for a period yet to[Read More…]
NASA Partners With Ohio Non-Profit on Unmanned Air Challenge
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. NASA has selected Development Projects Inc. of Dayton, Ohio, to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft systems in 2014. NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Airspace Operations Challenge is focused on developing and demonstrating key technologies, particularly the ability to sense and avoid other[Read More…]
NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars ‘Polluted’ With Planet Debris
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place– the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. These dead stars are located 150 light-years from Earth in a relatively young star cluster, Hyades, in the constellation Taurus.[Read More…]
Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee Announces 2013 Asian Carp Monitoring and Response Plan for Illinois Waters
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. The Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) today released its 2013 Asian Carp Monitoring and Response Plan (MRP). Outlining a revised and aggressive set of actions to track and remove Asian carp in the Upper Illinois River and the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS), the 2013 MRP[Read More…]
Illinois Senate Committee Approves Medical Marijuana Bill; Full Senate Will Consider Measure
SPRINGFIELD–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. Following a hearing Wednesday, the Senate Executive Committee voted 10-5 to approve a bill that would allow Illinois residents with serious illnesses to use medical marijuana if their physicians recommend it. The full 59-member Senate will now consider the measure, which received approval from the full House[Read More…]
Conservation Groups Urge Interior Secretary Jewell Not to Strip Wolf Protections Across U.S.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to remove wolf from endangered list expected soon Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. The leaders of six of the nation’s most prominent conservation groups today called on the U.S. Department of the Interior to cancel plans by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove[Read More…]
Exotic Atoms Hold Clues to Unsolved Physics Puzzle at the Dawn of the Universe
A graphical representation of the pear-shaped nucleus of an exotic atom. The shape of the nucleus could give clues to why the universe contains more matter than antimatter. Image credit: Liam Gaffney and Peter Butler, University of Liverpool ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–May 9, 2013. An international team of physicists has found[Read More…]
