Mes: febrero 2021

PLANO, Texas, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — With Winter Storm Uri leaving millions of Texans without power or water last week, North Texas-based Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) has pledged $1 million in relief for storm victims.  The aid will serve both customers and a variety of Texas-based non-profit organizations.

«We take our role as community leaders seriously, so when winter storms affected millions right in our backyard, our top priority became helping Texas get back on its feet after this ordeal,» said Sean Suggs, group vice president of Social Innovation, TMNA. «Texans have supported our company in myriad ways, and we want to help our neighbors emerge from this storm stronger than ever.»

The $1 million relief effort includes:

North Texas/DFW Metroplex

• United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, in support of North Texas Cares and West Dallas nonprofits to quickly distribute funds to grassroots organizations: $450,000
• North Texas Food Bank: $100,000
• The Family Place and Genesis Women’s Shelter to fund hotel rooms, food, and transportation for their clients: $30,000
• Toyota employees will be able to support the needs of four North Texas community partners significantly impacted by the storms by purchasing items from their Amazon Wish Lists.

San Antonio

• SAWS Community Pipe Repair Fund, through the San Antonio Area Foundation to assist individuals and families stay in their homes safely with funds for plumbing repairs: $100,000
• Let’s Help SA Fund to provide food, water and shelter: $200,000

Houston

• United Way of Greater Houston to support the Greater Houston 2021 Winter Storm Relief Fund that supports local home repairs: $50,000
• Houston Food Bank: $50,000
• CrowdSource Rescue to provide food, water and fuel: $20,000

Toyota offers support to all U.S.-based employees with their personal recovery efforts from unexpected catastrophic events.  Additionally, Toyota will match up to $10,000 in individual employee contributions to nonprofit organizations recovering from the storm.

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) announced it is offering payment relief options to customers affected by the storms. This broad outreach includes any TFS or Lexus Financial Services customer in the designated disaster areas.  Impacted lease and finance customers residing in affected areas may be eligible to take advantage of several payment relief options, some of which include:

• extensions and lease deferred payments
• redirecting billing statements
• arranging phone or online payments

About Toyota

Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. for more than 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our nearly 1,500 dealerships. 

Toyota has created a tremendous value chain and directly employs more than 36,000 in the U.S. The company has contributed world-class design, engineering, and assembly of more than 30 million cars and trucks at our 9 manufacturing plants, 10 including our joint venture in Alabama that begins production in 2021.

To help inspire the next generation for a career in STEM-based fields, including mobility, Toyota launched its virtual education hub at www.TourToyota.com with an immersive experience and chance to visit many of our U.S. manufacturing facilities. The hub also includes a series of free STEM-based lessons and curriculum through Toyota USA Foundation partners, virtual field trips and more. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.

Contact:  
Victor Vanov
Victor.vanov@toyota.com; 469.292.1318

SOURCE Toyota Motor North America

AZUSA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Alliance Environmental Group announced the acquisition of a new company Coast Environmental, a leading provider of indoor air quality management and life safety services to hospitals and healthcare facilities. Coast Environmental specializes in fire stopping, fire damper testing and repairs, containment for infection control, Kitchen Exhaust System cleaning, HVAC systems cleaning and refurbishment and mold remediation.

«As part of our company growth strategy, we are excited to include Coast Environmental as the latest addition to our portfolio,» said Jeff McLean, Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Environmental Group.  They have an excellent track record in healthcare and have established great relationships with customers over the years, which is in keeping with our business practices.

Both of our companies’ business interests are aligned. We welcome the addition of Coast to the group and are excited to have Chris Heitman and the Coast team join the Alliance Environmental group family», said Joe McLean, Co-founder of Alliance Environmental Group.

«We are elated to join Alliance Environmental Group of brands,» stated Chris Heitman, President of Coast Environmental. Now is the right time for us to align with a company such as Alliance Environmental Group, which has an impeccable reputation in environmental remediation. We continue to assure the safety of patients, staff, and visitors at our customers’ facilities.

About Alliance Environmental Group, LLC:

With more than 100 years of experience, Alliance Environmental Group, LLC is one of the leading environmental contractors in California. Alliance Environmental provides innovative air and HVAC duct cleaning solutions, asbestos, lead, and mold abatement; biohazard trauma cleanup; demolition and emergency response. The company has completed more than 160,000 remediation projects ranging from bed bug elimination to commercial mold removal in California and surrounding states. For more information, go to https://www.alliance-enviro.com.

About Coast Environmental

Carlsbad-based Coast Environmental has been a leader in indoor air quality and Infection control, HVAC refurbishment, duct cleaning, coil cleaning, and Fire Life Safety Services within the healthcare sector since 1979. Coast Environmental has an extended history with hospitals and medical facilities with its roots in medical gas. The company provides a higher standard of documentation and sterile processes needed to comply with facility IC policies and procedures. For more information, go to https://www.coastenvironmental.com 

Contact:
Vinay Panday
Director of Marketing
Alliance Environmental Group
805-603-0315 
vinaypanday@alliance-enviro.com

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SOURCE Alliance Environmental Group LLC

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Albert Einstein supposedly said that «Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.» By that definition, President Joe Biden’s approach to solving America’s long-standing problem of illegal immigration—granting amnesty to some 14.5 million illegal aliens—qualifies as insanity on the grandest possible scale.

As we approach yet another legislative effort to grant amnesty to every illegal alien who was present in the country prior to January 1, 2021 (and allow countless more who were deported during the Trump administration to return), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has summarized the nation’s history of attempting to fix immigration by pardoning those who break our immigration laws. The report, America Last: How the Biden Mass-Amnesty is Worse than Every Other Amnesty Attempt in U.S. History, demonstrates that past amnesties—legislated and de facto—not only failed to solve the problem but actually triggered even larger waves of illegal immigration.

The report takes a hard look at the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), the Reagan-era amnesty that was supposed to put an end to the problem of illegal immigration:

• At the time President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986, an estimated 3 million illegal aliens resided in the United States; 35 years later that number is nearly five times higher.
• IRCA was riddled with fraud, so an amnesty five times larger would inevitably result in fraud on an even grander scale.
• Countless promises to the American public to prevent future illegal immigration were never kept. The Biden proposal (unlike amnesty proposals made under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama) does not even promise future enforcement.

In addition to detailing the past failures of amnesty programs, the report also delves into the future costs that the Biden amnesty would impose on American workers and taxpayers. Some 40 million new immigrants are expected to eventually enter the country through chain migration stemming from this amnesty.

The report further examines how legislative efforts—even failed ones like the DREAM Act and the 2013 Gang of Eight bill and de facto amnesties like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)—have exacerbated illegal immigration and put us in the position we are in today, with some 14.5 million illegal aliens living here.

«You don’t need to be Albert Einstein to figure out that the massive amnesty the Biden administration is proposing will not produce any results other than those we have seen with past amnesties—only exponentially larger and infinitely more damaging to the national interest,» commented Dan Stein, president of FAIR. «Nor do you need to be George Santayana to know that, ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’

«The events of the past 35 years, documented in this report, make it evident that the amnesty plan put forth by the White House falls squarely within Einstein’s definition of insanity and Santayana’s definition of self-destructive denial of history,» Stein concluded.

The full report, America Last: How the Biden Mass-Amnesty is Worse than Every Other Amnesty Attempt in U.S. History, can found here.

Contact: Matthew Tragesser, 202-328-7004 or mtragesser@fairus.org

ABOUT FAIR

Founded in 1979, FAIR is the country’s largest immigration reform group. With over 3 million members and supporters nationwide, FAIR fights for immigration policies that serve national interests, not special interests. FAIR believes that immigration reform must enhance national security, improve the economy, protect jobs, preserve our environment, and establish a rule of law that is recognized and enforced.

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SOURCE Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)