57 Schools Across the City to Receive Air Conditioning this Summer in First Year of Five-Year CPS Capital Plan CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–MaY 1, 2014. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett yesterday announced the first phase of the five-year plan to provide air conditioning to every classroom. As part of this[Read More…]
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Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Continued Fight to Raise Wages
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014. The Senate failed yesterday to increase the minimum wage. The rest of America marches forward, raising wages every way possible, utterly confident that we have history, economics, morality, and plain common sense on our side. Any political oligarch in America who thinks they won yesterday is[Read More…]
Chicago’s Petcoke Problem: City Council Ordinance Moves in the Right Direction
More Work to Be Done to Live Up to Mayor Emanuel’s Strong Words CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2014 – Chicago’s City Council today prohibited more oil refining waste storage sites from blighting the city’s neighborhoods, air and waterways with the passage of an ordinance aimed at banning new coal and petroleum coke[Read More…]
New Report on Central African Republic: Enough Project Finds Diamonds, Oil, Ivory, and Regional Interests are Behind Violence
Extensive Field Research Argues that the U.S., U.N. Must Help Cut Off Illicit Revenues of Violent Groups, Support a Comprehensive Peace Process Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014. As violence grows in the Central African Republic, with fears of intensifying divisions and northern secession, the Enough Project released its first report on[Read More…]
White-Rodgers Recalls Home Heating and Cooling Thermostats Due to Fire Hazard, May 1, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 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: April 30, 2014 Recall number: 14-166 Home Heating and Cooling Thermostats Recall Summary Name of product: Home Heating and Cooling Thermostats Hazard: [Read More…]
NOAA-led Researchers Discover Ocean Acidity is Dissolving Shells of Tiny Snails Off the U.S. West Coast
Bongo nets are deployed up to 200 meters deep to catch marine snails (pteropods), which are indicators of the progress of ocean acidification. The pteropod samples were collected during the U.S. West Coast survey cruises in 2011 and 2013. (Credit: NOAA) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014. A NOAA-led research team has[Read More…]
Shareholders and Activists Protest Duke Energy’s Political Spending, Environmental Record, at Annual Shareholder Meeting
CHARLOTTE, N.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014. A coalition of reform, environmental, faith and social justice groups rallied outside Duke Energy’s annual shareholder meeting today and called on the company to more fully disclose its political spending. Duke’s political spending, including more than $1.1 million spent in support of North Carolina Gov. Pat[Read More…]
Organic Food Consumption Leads to Dramatically Lower Pesticide Exposure
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)-May 1, 2014. A recent study, Reduction in urinary organophosphate pesticide metabolites in adults after a week-long organic diet, led by Liza Oates found lower trances of organophosphate metabolites in consumers that ate organic food for a week compared to those who ate a conventional diet. The study adds to[Read More…]
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending April 26, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—May 1, 2014. SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending April 26, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 344,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous week’s revised level. The previous week’s level was revised up by 1,000 from 329,000 to 330,000. The 4-week moving average[Read More…]
ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Ohio’s Latest Attempts to Slash Early Voting Opportunities
Cuts by Ohio Legislature and Secretary of State Eliminate Opportunities Used by More than 157,000 Voters in 2012 COLUMBUS, Ohio–(ENEWSPF)–May 1, 2014. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to strike down a new state law and a directive from Ohio Secretary of[Read More…]
