Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014. Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Recall date: May 27, 2014 Recall number: 14-192 Empress Arts blue dot children’s pajamas Recall Summary Name of product: Children’s Pajamas Hazard: The pajamas[Read More…]
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Precision Shooting Recalls Crossbows Due to Injury Hazard; Can Fire Unexpectedly
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014. Consumers should stop using this product unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Recall date: May 27, 2014 Recall number: 14-191 TAC Elite Recall Summary Name of product: Crossbows Hazard: The crossbow can fire an arrow without[Read More…]
DOT Fines Southwest Airlines for Violating Price Advertising Rule, Assesses Additional Penalties for Violating Previous Cease and Desist Provisions
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014. The U.S. Department of Transportation today fined Southwest Airlines $200,000 for violating the Department’s full-fare advertising rules and ordered the carrier to cease and desist from further violations. By violating the full-fare advertising rule in this case, Southwest Airlines also violated the cease and desist provision of[Read More…]
LGBT Workers Continue to Face Unfair Discrimination
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2014. Today, as Exxon Mobil’s shareholders are expected to vote again to deny workplace protections to its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, or LGBT, employees, and the city of Houston, Texas, votes on whether to extend such protections to LGBT workers, a newly released report paints a[Read More…]
EPA Report Shows Impact of Changing Climate on Americans’ Health and Environment
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014. Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the third edition of a report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States. The report pulls together observed data on key measures of our environment, including U.S. and global temperature and precipitation, ocean heat and ocean acidity, sea level,[Read More…]
State Public Health Director Statement on Illinois Resident Not Infected with MERS-CoV
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 28, 2014. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that after conducting more definitive laboratory tests, it found the Illinois resident was not infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) while having a business meeting with the man later hospitalized in Indiana with MERS-CoV. Illinois[Read More…]
White House Releases Report on the Administration’s All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy as a Path to Sustainable Economic Growth
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014. Today, the White House released a report, “An All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy as a Path to Sustainable Economic Growth,” detailing the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy and the profound transformation in the domestic energy sector since the President took office. Thanks to this dramatic transformation and the President’s[Read More…]
White House Fact Sheet: President Obama Applauds Commitments to Address Sports-Related Concussions in Young People
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 29, 2014. Sports are one of the best ways to keep our kids active and healthy, but young people make nearly 250,000 emergency room visits each year with sport or recreation-related brain injuries. As a sports fan and a parent with two young daughters, President Obama believes we[Read More…]
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel Orders Military Health System Review
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 29, 2014. Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby provided the following statement: “On Tuesday, Secretary Hagel outlined the parameters of the comprehensive review he ordered of the department’s military health system. “The 90-day review will be led by Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, with the assistance[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Congress to Vote Today on At Least Four Amendments Reigning in Troubled Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Amendments Prohibit DEA from Undermining State Medical Marijuana Laws; Prohibit DEA from Blocking Production of Hemp; Deny Proposed DEA Budget Increase DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart Increasingly At Odds With President Obama, Justice Dept and Congress; Lawmakers and Advocates Call for Her to be Fired Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 29, 2014. Today, the[Read More…]
