Ebola strategies offered to families of company workers might work elsewhere. Atlanta, GA—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2014. Innovative measures have limited the spread of Ebola in a part of Liberia where Firestone Liberia Inc. had established an effective health care infrastructure, according to a report issued today in the October 21 early[Read More…]
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National Nurses Statement on New CDC Ebola Guidelines
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. National Nurses United today welcomed the call in the latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “rigorous and repeated training” for nurses and other health workers responding to the Ebola virus as NNU has been urging for two months, but said[Read More…]
NOAA Team Discovers Two Vessels From WWII Convoy Battle Off North Carolina
German U-boat 576 and freighter Bluefields found within 240 yards of one another The German U-576 departing Saint-Nazaire, France, circa 1940-1942. The submarine was sunk in 1942 by aircraft fire after attacking and sinking the Nicaraguan freighter Bluefields and two other ships off North Carolina. (Credit: With permission from Ed[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel, Speaker Madigan, Labor and Community Leaders Join ComEd to Break Ground on New Chicago Training Facility
New Site Will Bring Jobs, Train Next Generation of Utility Workers; Facility Will Also Provide Afterschool Career and Technical Training for Chicago Public School Students CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 20, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, joined ComEd president and CEO Anne Pramaggiore, Speaker Michael Madigan, State Senator Antonio Munoz, Representative Edward Acevado, IBEW Local[Read More…]
New Report Finds Ocean-based Fish Farming at Odds with Organic Standard
53 organizations agree that USDA should not allow farmed fish at sea to be labeled “organic” Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) released a comprehensive, scientific report detailing why ocean-based aquaculture (fish farming) can never be certified organic. In advance of USDA’s publication of regulations to[Read More…]
Suburban Dermatologist Convicted Of Cheating Medicare And Private Insurers Of $2.6 Million In Health Care Fraud Scheme
CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2014. A dermatologist in west suburban Lombard was convicted today of defrauding Medicare and private health insurers by submitting false claims for more than 800 patients resulting in losses totaling more than $2.6 million. The defendant, DR. ROBERT KOLBUSZ, falsely diagnosed patients with actinic keratosis, or sun-induced[Read More…]
September 2014 Jobless Rates Down in 31 States, Up in 8; Payroll Jobs Up in 39 States, Down in 10
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2014. Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in September. Thirty-one states had unemployment rate decreases from August, 8 states had increases, and 11 states and the District of Columbia had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-two states and the[Read More…]
Threatened Status Proposed for West Coast Fisher after Poisonings with Rodenticides
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. Due in large part to the use of rodenticides in the cultivation of illegal marijuana grow operations, earlier this month the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced a proposal to list fishers, medium sized carnivores of the weasel family, as threatened under the Endangered Species[Read More…]
Representative Blumenauer Makes Statement on West Africa Ebola Outbreak
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 21, 2014. We should be careful in restricting travel between West Africa and the U.S. during this current Ebola outbreak. People in affected countries still find a way to travel, and governments could have a harder time tracking those movements. Sealing off aid and resources to West Africa[Read More…]
Broad Coalition of Groups Call On Governor Cuomo To Stop Exploding Oil Trains
Seek State DEC order prohibiting bomb trains The Port of Albany. Photo courtesy of Andy Arthur Albany, NY —(ENEWSPF)–October 21, 2014. A coalition of local residents, environmental groups and a church today filed a legal petition requesting the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to issue an order[Read More…]
