Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. John Deere lawn tractor Recall Summary Name of product: John Deere lawn tractors Hazard: The brake arm on the lawn tractor can fail, posing a crash hazard that could result in serious injury or death. Remedy: View Details Repair Consumer Contact: Deere & Company at (800)[Read More…]
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Food & Water Watch: Ignominious 10th Anniversary of Fracking’s ‘Halliburton Loophole’ This Weekend
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch: This Saturday, August 8 marks the 10th anniversary of what largely enabled America’s oil and gas fracking boom: the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and a key provision of it known commonly as the “Halliburton Loophole.” The provision[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Park District Announce Spaces Still Available For Late and Specialty Summer Camps
More than 1,800 spaces open for summer camps starting on or after August 10 CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Park District yesterday announced that more than 1,800 spaces are still available in the Park District’s late and specialty summer camps. Late and specialty camps begin Monday,[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces City Health Care Benefits To Cover Gender Reassignment Services
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel yesterday announced that the City of Chicago is poised to remove the exclusion of gender reassignment services from city health care benefits; the change will be implemented for all non-union employees, and the city is working with labor partners to also remove the exclusion[Read More…]
Increased Likelihood of Below-normal Atlantic Hurricane Season
Updated outlook calls for 90 percent probability of below-normal season (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. The NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s updated 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook calls for a 90 percent chance of a below-normal hurricane season. A below-normal season is now even more likely than predicted in May,[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Galaxy Star Birth Regulated by Black-Hole Fountain
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe’s largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet-light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming[Read More…]
SEIU’s Henry: We Can Honor 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Act by Protecting Right to Vote
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement today, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act: “I am proud to celebrate the anniversary of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act—an historic and hard-won victory of the Civil Rights[Read More…]
AFL-CIO: Voting Rights Act is Crucial to Ensuring Every Voice is Heard at the Ballot Box
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015. Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: Today we commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the country’s most successful civil rights laws. The Voting Rights Act has played a central role in preventing the discriminatory practices that[Read More…]
Americans for Safe Access Statement on DOJ Memorandum Regarding Guidance on Effect of Rohrabacher-Farr Medical Cannabis Amendment
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 6, 2015. Yesterday, press reports revealed a February 2015 memorandum from Department of Justice on the Rohrabacher-Farr Medical Cannabis Amendment’s impact on federal law enforcement actions related to the Controlled Substances Act. The memorandum argues that federal prosecutions against private citizens participating in state-level medical cannabis programs would[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders Marks Voting Rights Act Anniversary, Introduces Legislation to Increase Voter Turnout
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2015 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) spoke today on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at a rally hosted by leading civil rights organizations. With the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial as a backdrop, Sanders called for restoring Voting Rights Act protections stripped away by a[Read More…]
