Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014.l Beekeepers in Ontario, Canada are tired of losing bees and have decided to take matters into their own hands by filing a class action lawsuit against two makers of neonicotinoids. According to The Globe and Mail, the lawsuit alleges that Syngenta and Bayer CropScience were negligent[Read More…]
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Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending August 30, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending August 30, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 302,000, an increase of 4,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level of 298,000. The 4-week moving average was 302,750, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week’s unrevised[Read More…]
Federal Court Restores Cuts to Early Voting in Ohio in Time for Midterm Election
ACLU is Challenging the Cuts, Calls Ruling Huge Victory COLUMBUS, Ohio–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014. A federal judge today ruled that cuts to early voting in Ohio must be restored in time for the November election. The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a state law and directives that have dramatically slashed[Read More…]
Project LIBERTY Biorefinery Starts Cellulosic Ethanol Production
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Project LIBERTY, the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to use corn waste as a feedstock, announced the start of production today. Once operating at full, commercial-scale, the biorefinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa will produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year – enough to avoid approximately[Read More…]
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Provides Funding to Target Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy today announced that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) will provide almost $12 million to federal and state agencies to protect public health by targeting harmful algal blooms (HABs) in western Lake Erie. The funding builds upon the GLRI’s on-going[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Urges Home Depot Customers to Take Caution, Report Unauthorized Charges
Chicago—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today warned consumers to be on the lookout for unauthorized charges as Home Depot investigates a possible data breach affecting stores nationwide. Madigan also said her office is looking into the possible breach of customers’ personal financial information. “Consumers who have shopped at[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Announces Federal Disaster Declaration for Six Eastern Illinois Counties
Vermilion, Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Ford and Iroquois Counties Eligible for Federal Aid After May Hail Storm Destroyed Strawberry Crop CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 4, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today announced that United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has declared six eastern Illinois counties as federal disaster areas following a May 21 hailstorm[Read More…]
New England Compounding Center Supervising Pharmacist Arrested at Logan International Airport
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 4, 2014. A Canton, Massachusetts, man was arrested today at Boston’s Logan International Airport in connection with the ongoing criminal investigation of New England Compounding Center (NECC) by the Justice Department’s Civil Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Glenn Adam Chin, 46, was attempting to board a plane to Hong Kong[Read More…]
U.S. and Indiana Enter into Settlement for $26 Million Cleanup in East Chicago, Indiana
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Under a proposed settlement reached with the United States and the state of Indiana, the Atlantic Richfield Company and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) will pay for an estimated $26 million cleanup of lead and arsenic contamination in parts of a residential neighborhood[Read More…]
United States Settles with Costco to Cut Ozone-Depleting and Greenhouse Gas Refrigerant Emissions Nationwide
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—September 3, 2014. Costco Wholesale Corporation, one of the nation’s largest retailers, has agreed to cut its emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases from leaking refrigeration equipment at more than half of its stores nationwide. In the settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department[Read More…]
