Health and Environmental Groups Announce Intent to Sue Illinois Coal Plant Owners for Violating Clean Air Act

CHICAGO, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Environmental Law & Policy Center: A coalition of Illinois health and environmental groups notified Midwest Generation, LLC of their intent to sue the company because its coal plants release...

Coming Clean About The Cleaner - Phoenix House's Chief Clinical Officer David Deitch on Intervention, and the Recovery Process That Follows

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- "Back for a second season is A&E's hit series The Cleaner , with Benjamin Bratt starring as an 'extreme interventionist,' a character based on the life of the show's co-executive producer Warren Boyd. What's encouraging about The Clean...

Oakland Port Commission Seeks Resolution to Allow Local Officials Real Power to Clean Up Diesel Truck Pollution; Improve Security, Safety

OAKLAND, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a rebuke to the status quo in a deregulated trucking market, the Oakland Commission acknowledged a critical need for Congress to modernize transportation policy so the Port has the legal authority to set and enforce trucking industry standards ...

DOE funds Clemson University clean energy research

Clemson University associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering David Bruce will participate in a multi-university Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded with $12.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The Center for Atomic-Level Catalyst Design (CALCD) is focused on ...

It's Time to Clean Up This Mess: Texas Surgeon Points Out Numerous Flaws in American Health Care Industry

HOUSTON, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The insurance industry, lawyers and the Federal Drug Administration -- "The American Medical Mess" ( published by iUniverse ), by Charles Peter, MD, holds nothing back against nearly everyone involved in the health care industry in the United States. Peter, a...

Veterinary Group Opposes Bill to Clean Up Puppy Mill Industry

AUSTIN, Texas, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Animal welfare advocates throughout Texas were stunned by the Texas Veterinary Medical Association's last-minute position to oppose House Bill 3180, a bill to license and regulate large-scale commercial breeding facilities, or puppy mills. "The TVMA's d...

Ultra Clean Reports Q1 '09 Financial Results

Revenue and Earnings in Line with Guidance HAYWARD, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: UCTT ), a leading developer and supplier of critical subsystems for the semiconductor capital equipment, flat panel, solar, and medical device industries, today re...

Aspen Dental Leads Efforts To Clean Up For Earth Day

Hundreds of Aspen Dental employees and family members participated in Earth Day activities. Syracuse, NY (PRWEB) May 1, 2009 -- Aspen Dental employees and their family members gave Mother Earth a helping hand during two weekends of Earth Day activities. In all, more th...

Asthma and Allergy Sufferers: Take in a Breath of Clean Air While Driving

BROADVIEW, Ill., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- If you are among the 60 million Americans who suffer from asthma or seasonal allergies (according to the Asthma And Allergy Foundation of America) and are dreading an upcoming long drive, you have better chances of enjoying a comfortable ride than you may ...

Millstone Medical Outsourcing Celebrates New Fall River Facility, Designed to Meet Demand for Advanced Inspection, Clean Room Services

FALL RIVER, Mass., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Millstone Medical Outsourcing announced today the official opening of the company's new facility in Fall River, MA. Millstone will hold an Open House on Friday, April 24 , for customers, vendors, state and local dignitaries, and friends of ...

Public Health is No. 1, Says U.S. District Judge in Denial of FMC Motion to Shelve the LA-LB Clean Trucks Programs

Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports Calls on Members of Congress to Protect Port Green-Growth Policy that will Save Lives, Improve Safety & Security LOS ANGELES and WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a victory for the movement to clean the air and create good green jobs a...

Five Money Saving Tips for Green, Clean and Healthy Home Air Providing Asthma and Allergy Relief

Alen Corp., a leading manufacturer of environmentally friendly indoor air quality products based in Texas, has five simple money saving tips that can inexpensively create clean, pure and eco-friendly home air during allergy season and year-round. Austin, Texas (PRWEB) A...

The World's First Complete Intimacy Kit for Safe and Clean Sex

Finally, the world's first complete intimacy kit is here and the timing couldn't be more perfect! With all the concerns about STDs being plastered all over the news over the past two decades or so, leave it to a company called "Safe & Clean Laboratories" to come up with an all-in-o...

USAID and Rotary Clubs Join to Provide Clean Water and Improved Sanitation Worldwide

Collaboration merges Rotary's grassroots strength with agency's technical expertise ISTANBUL, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Rotary International (RI) are teaming up to save lives by bringing clean drinking water and bas...

Tap Project Partners With Strategic Hotels for 2009 UNICEF Clean Water Campaign

Westin St. Francis, Hotel Del Coronado, Washington Four Seasons and seven additional hotels join effort to raise funds for UNICEF NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Luxury hotel owner, Strategic Hotels, today announced that it will become a 2009 national partner of the UNICEF-suppo...

Environmental Defense Fund Welcomes EPA Clean Air Standards to Reduce Hazardous Diesel Pollution

Proposal Would Address One Million Stationary Diesel Engines WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmental Defense Fund welcomes new clean air standards proposed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to protect public health from about one million stationary diesel engines in ope...

Millstone Medical Outsourcing Opens New Facility to Provide Additional Capacity for Advanced Inspection, Clean Room Operations

FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Millstone Medical Outsourcing announced today the opening of a second operating facility in Fall River, MA. The company acquired the new 30,000 square foot facility to provide additional space and capacity for advanced inspection and clean room services....

Are You Really Sleeping on Clean Bedsheets?

Pesky bed bugs bugging you? OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Microscopic insects called dust mites are the leading cause of indoor allergies. The other primary offenders cited in the arena of indoor allergens are pet dander and dust mold. Dust mites are microscopic arachnids that feed...

Clean Tech Open Announces $125M+ Raised for Clean Tech Startups; Takes 2009 Competition National

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Clean Tech Open, the non- profit that connects entrepreneurs with the expertise, network, and funding to make clean tech possible and profitable, kicks off its fourth annual competition season today. At its first monthly Breakfast Briefing, the Cl...

Virginia Leaders Should Reject Flawed Smoke-Free Legislation That Fails to Protect Everyone's Right to Breathe Clean Air

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, was released today: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO ) The smoke-free restaurant legislation announced today in Virginia fai...

Statement on Presidential Memorandum to EPA to Review Lifting of Ban on California Clean Car Standard

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All people have the right to clean air. Action announced by the White House today means that Americans may soon be able to breathe easier, said Dr. Jane L. Delgado, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation's leading ...

Ultra Clean Technology to Manufacture Products for FEI Company

HAYWARD, Calif. and HILLSBORO, Ore., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ultra Clean Technology (Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.) (Nasdaq: UCTT ) and FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC ) announced today they have signed a Global Supplier Agreement under which Ultra Clean will provide hosted manufacturing ...

TAP Project Partners With Watergeeks for 2009 Clean Water Campaign

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The UNICEF supported clean-water campaign known as the TAP Project, today announced that water technology manufacturer, The Watergeeks Laboratories, will become a national supporter of the campaign in 2009 -- the third year of this award-winning, life-saving initi...

CLEAN & CLEAR(R) Is Inviting Teens to 'Erase Their Worst Yearbook Picture' With The NEW CLEAN & CLEAR(R) Advantage(R) Blackhead Eraser(TM) Exfoliating Cleanser

SKILLMAN, N.J., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Yearbook photos capture school portraits for years to come. However, most teens agree that they have a yearbook photo that they would prefer to erase -- and replace. To encourage teens to look picture-perfect in school yearbook photos this year, and to k...

PA Department of Health Reminds Businesses to Prepare to Implement Clean Indoor Air Act

New Law Takes Effect Sept. 11; Online Resources and Helpline Now Available HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the Sept. 11 effective date of Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act fast approaching, the Department of Health is reminding businesses about online resources to ...

PSEG Supports Quick Congressional Action on Clean Air in Wake of Court's Rescinding of CAIR

Power company says impact is 'significant and substantial' and calls for multi-pollutant legislation NEWARK, N.J., July 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eric Svenson, PSEG's vice president of environment, health and safety, testified today before Congress about the implication...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Agrees to Clean Air Act Upgrades

CHICAGO, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bristol-Myers Squibb, an international pharmaceutical manufacturer, has agreed to reduce the output of ozone-depleting refrigerants at multiple industrial facilities around the country at a combined cost of $3.65 million to resolve violations of the C...

Pfizer to Pay $975,000 for Alleged Clean Air Violations at Connecticut Facility

WASHINGTON, June 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay a $975,000 civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its former manufacturing plant in Groton, Conn., the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EP...

Next 10 years crucial to ensure provision of clean water for future generations

The world needs to develop a means of securing the supply of clean fresh water within the next 10 years if we are to tackle looming water shortages, leading expert on water purification and director of the US National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Centre for Advanced Materials for th...

UNICEF Rushing Medical Supplies, Tents, Clean Water to Children Affected by Powerful Earthquake in China

Estimated $5 Million Required for Immediate Needs NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two days after the largest earthquake to hit China in a generation, news of its full impact on the communities living close to the epicenter is still trickling in at a painfully slow speed....

UNICEF REPORT: Desperate Conditions for Children in Camps Without Clean Water as Cyclone Aftermath Worsens

NEW YORK, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The situation for children continues to worsen in Myanmar as thousands of children have been separated from their families, many more are living in desperate conditions in relief camps, and some are drinking water from ponds covered with dead bodies,...

Are You Trying to Clean Your Home ... or Kill It?

Home Toxic Home: National Harris/Shaklee Corp Poll Finds 95% of American Mothers Believe Household Cleaning Products can be Toxic - But only half believe their kids are being exposed to household toxins - PLEASANTON, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Home may be where the heart is, but the...

Children's Safe Drinking Water Program Provides One Billionth Liter of Clean Water

P&G helps address one of the greatest global social needs in Africa IBADAN, Nigeria, April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Safe Drinking Water Program celebrated the creation of its one billionth liter of clean drinking water today at a rural clinic near Ibadan, Nigeria. Using a packet of ...

Spring Clean Your Body for the Perfect Cleanse

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Throw down your mop and broom! Spring cleaning the house can wait while you clean out something really important -- your body. Daily exposure to thousands of toxins in the environment, food, cosmetics, and household cleaning products can pro...

Tom's of Maine Introduces a Patent-Pending New Formula with the Launch of its Natural Clean & Gentle Care and Sensitive Care Toothpastes

~~ New Ingredient Creates a Natural Foaming Experience ~~ KENNEBUNK, Maine, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom's of Maine, a leader in natural oral and body care, announced a patent-pending breakthrough formula in its new Natural Clean & Gentle Care and Natural Sensitive Care Toothpastes. (...

Locomotive and Marine Diesel Engines Clean Up Will Save Lives

Statement of Bernadette Toomey, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Lung Association, March 14, 2008 WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association salutes the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule to require substantial cuts in the air...

Purifan Clean Air Wellness System Now Installed in More Than 40 Schools Nationwide

One Elementary School Reported 61% Fewer Student Sick Days the First Year After They Installed Purifans WICHITA, Kan., March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Purifan, Inc. announced today that 20 additional schools in Oklahoma, California, Iowa, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, and Kansas have...

Vestergaard Frandsen to Launch High Tech Filter to Provide Clean and Safe Drinking Water to People in Developing Nations

Instant Microbiological Purifier Provides Homemade Drinking Water with Potential to Save Lives and Reduce Suffering on a Massive Scale WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Vestergaard Frandsen, a European company that develops award-winning products to save lives and reduce suffering in the ...

Smart Home Cleaning: New Web Site Educates Consumers on Looking Clean Versus Being Clean

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA) is separating fact from fiction about what looks clean and what is clean with the launch of its new consumer website http://www.AboutCleaningProducts.com . "We are surrounded by invisible germs ...

Breakdown of kidney's ability to clean its own filters likely causes disease

Jan. 29, 2008 -- The kidney actively cleans its most selective filter to keep it from clogging with blood proteins, scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveal in a new study. Researchers showed that breakdown of this self-cleaning feature can make kidneys more...