The White House and U.S. Department of Energy Announce Private Sector Commitments to Cut Carbon Pollution and Reduce Our Dependence on Foreign Oil Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. The Obama Administration is committed to taking responsible steps to combat climate change and reduce our dependence on oil. That is why today,[Read More…]
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Remarks by President Obama Before Meeting with National Security and Public Health Teams on Ebola, Nov. 18, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014 – 11:05 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Well, I’ve got my team here to talk about Ebola. But before I do, I want to just make mention of the horrific attacks that took place in Jerusalem. We know that two attackers senselessly and brutally attacked innocent worshippers[Read More…]
Country Squire Foods to Hold Grand Opening Celebration on November 24
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014. Country Squire Foods, 120 Orchard Drive, Park Forest, will hold a grand opening celebration on Monday November 24 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The event will include a ribbon cutting ceremony with Mayor Ostenburg, Village Trustees and staff. Please join us as we celebrate[Read More…]
What Were They Thinking? Massachusetts Town Tries to Ban Tobacco
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—November 18, 2014. A small town in Massachusetts made national news recently when the local health board moved to make Westminster, Mass. the first place in the country where no one could buy cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco. You can predict the rationale behind the proposed tobacco ban.[Read More…]
VA Implements Second Phase of Choice Card Program
Cards sent to Veterans waiting more than 30 days for care Washington, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced that it began mailing Veterans Choice Cards on November 17 to Veterans currently waiting more than 30-days from their preferred date or the date that is[Read More…]
Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez: When Harry Truman Took Executive Action, ‘He Used His Pen and We Celebrate His Courage Today’
“Truman said the ‘Buck Stops Here’ and he was right then and he is just as right today about the current occupant of the White House.” Washington, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. This morning during the 10 a.m. hour (ET), Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL-4) spoke on the floor of the[Read More…]
R&D Cost Estimates: Doctors Without Borders Response to Tufts CSDD Study on Cost to Develop a New Drug
An MDR-TB patient receiving treatment at an MSF facility in Swaziland shows some of the drugs that are part of her regimen. Sven Torfinn NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. “The pharmaceutical industry-supported Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development claims it costs US$2.56 billion to develop a new drug today;[Read More…]
Cost to Develop and Win Marketing Approval for a New Drug Is $2.6 Billion
BOSTON –-(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014 – Developing a new prescription medicine that gains marketing approval, a process often lasting longer than a decade, is estimated to cost $2,558 million, according to a new study by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. The $2,558 million figure per approved compound[Read More…]
Census Bureau Economic Data Show Electric Power Generation Using Renewable Energy Growing
Economic Census Statistics Now Available for the First Time on Wind, Geothermal, Biomass and Solar Electric Power Generation Download Renewable Energy Revenue [JPG – <1.0 MB] Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2014. Revenues for electric power generation industries that use renewable energy resources rose 49.0 percent from $6.6 billion in 2007 to[Read More…]
UN Special Envoy, Human Rights Office Condemn Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry. UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan JERUSALEM–(ENEWSPF)–18 November 2014 – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, has strongly condemned the attack this morning on a synagogue in West Jerusalem, calling on all sides to do everything[Read More…]
