The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has provided aid to people affected by rocket fire in the town of Mariupol. The agency has also distributed blankets to people lacking heating in their homes, like this lady. Photo: UNHCR GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–27 January 2015 – The United Nations refugee agency said it has “reacted[Read More…]
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FTC Requires Albertsons and Safeway to Sell 168 Stores as a Condition of Merger
Agency’s Largest Supermarket Divestiture Order to Date Requires Sales to Four Buyers Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Supermarket operators Albertsons and Safeway Inc. have agreed to sell 168 supermarkets to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their proposed $9.2 billion merger would likely be anticompetitive in 130 local markets in Arizona,[Read More…]
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Captures Best-Ever View of Dwarf Planet
This animation of the dwarf planet Ceres was made by combining images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Jan. 25. The spacecraft’s framing camera took these images, at a distance of about 147,000 miles (237,000 kilometers) from Ceres, and they represent the highest-resolution views to date of the dwarf planet.[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Announces ContextMedia Will Expand Workforce in Chicago
Company to Hire an Additional 600 Jobs in Chicago; Growing Chicago’s Technology Workforce is A Key Initiative of the Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and ContextMedia CEO Rishi Shah announced yesterday that the company plans to hire an additional 200 jobs in Chicago[Read More…]
NRDC: Administration Drilling Plan Would Expose Eastern Seaboard, Atlantic and Arctic Waters to Blowout Risk
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015 — The Obama Administration proposed a five-year offshore drilling lease plan today that would expose much of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans to oil and gas production. The Natural Resources Defense Council’s Executive Director Peter Lehner made the following statement: “This takes us in exactly the wrong[Read More…]
Sierra Club: Obama Administration Releases New 5-Year Offshore Drilling Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. The Obama administration today released its proposed 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The proposal keeps dirty fuel development off-limits along the Pacific and Northern Atlantic coasts, as well as in some areas of the Arctic Ocean, while opening up new areas off[Read More…]
Center for American Progress Analysis Shows High Levels of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports Could Hurt Consumers
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. With Congress poised to consider legislation to expedite exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, the Center for American Progress released a new analysis of the potential impact of high levels of LNG exports on consumers’ natural gas bills in regions across the country. In[Read More…]
New Reforms: Former Church Committee Staff Members Recommend Key Changes to Intelligence Oversight
New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Today, on the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Church Committee, 17 former Church Committee staff members put forward key reforms to help Congress rein in intelligence abuses and repair weakened oversight structures in a new report out today. “The 40th anniversary of the[Read More…]
CDC Reports Deficiencies in Farmworker Protection from Pesticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. In evaluating a farmworker poisoning incident in Washington State last year, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report identifies “at least three potential occupational hazards in agriculture: off-target pesticide drift, toxicity of some recently marketed pesticides, and a gap in worker notification requirements.” The report[Read More…]
Progressive Coalition Encourages EPA to Mandate Strong GHG Reductions from Power Plants by 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. 28 local, state and national public interest groups from the Climate Reality Check network submitted a letter to Assistant Administrator Janet McCabe for the Office of Air and Radiation in the Environmental Protection Agency. The letter urges her to require that states make significant greenhouse gas[Read More…]
