CONCORD, Massachusetts, June 26 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has received a permit application from the Maine Department of Transportation to place temporary and permanent fill in the Mattawamkeag River while replacing the deteriorated Route 2 bridge. The project will result in permanent and temporary impacts to stream bed, wetlands, and a relocated intermittent tributary strea  more

CONCORD, Massachusetts, June 26 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has received a permit application from the Maine Department of Transportation to place temporary and permanent fill in the Pleasant River and adjacent wetlands while replacing the deteriorated Pleasant Street bridge in Milo, Maine. The project will result in permanent and temporary impacts to stream bed and wetlands.   more

CONCORD, Massachusetts, June 26 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has received a permit application from the state of New Hampshire, PDA Port Authority for maintenance dredging of Rye Harbor. The proposed work involves dredging within the designated setback area of the Corps' Civil Works project known as the Rye Harbor Federal Navigation Project (FNP) and also requires permission fr  more

CONCORD, Massachusetts, June 26 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has received a permit application from the Portland Harbor Commission for dredging of Rye Harbor and Fore River in Portland and South Portland, Maine. The proposed work involves the dredging of accumulated sediment at 47 separate waterfront sites including 21 piers, 10 marinas, a public boat launch, and a commercial b  more

NEW YORK, June 26 -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news: As a result of the lockdowns around the world to control COVID-19, huge decreases in transportation and industrial activity resulted in a drop in daily global carbon emissions of 17 percent in April. Nonetheless, CO2 levels in the atmosphere reached their highest monthly average ever recorded in May -- 417.1 parts per million. This is because the carbon dioxide humans have already emitted can   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following statement by Secretary Alex Azar: On June 25, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ministry of Health officially announced the end of the Ebola outbreak in the eastern DRC that has been ongoing since August 2018. "President Trump's administration made ending the Ebola outbreak in the eastern DRC one of America's top global health priorities. We congratulate the Congolese government and all of our  more

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- The House Budget Committee issued the following testimony by Patrice Harris, immediate past president of the American Medical Association, in a virtual hearing entitled "Health and Wealth Inequality in America: How COVID-19 Makes Clear the Need for Change" on June 23: The American Medical Association (AMA) appreciates the opportunity to provide testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Budget as part of its June 23, 2020 hearing on "Health and Wealth  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, D-Arizona, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on June 25: Chair Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, sent a letter to President Trump today questioning his administration's unexplained failure to distribute $300 million in financial aid to Tribal, subsistence, commercial, and charter fishery participants three months a  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release on June 25: Chair Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, sent a letter to President Trump questioning his administration's unexplained failure to distribute $300 million in financial aid to Tribal, subsistence, commercial, and charter fishery participants three months after Congress approved the measure as part of the CARES A  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 25 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following story on June 24: New England is known for its thousands of miles of rivers and streams, many of them dotted with historic mills and dams. Those dams make it difficult for fish to reach upstream spawning habitat, which causes their populations to shrink. NOAA Fisheries is working with partners to address or remove those dams, giving fish a chance to rebound. Diadro-what? Diadromous fis  more

SOLOMONS, Israel, June 26 -- The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science issued the following news release: For the endangered Atlantic sturgeon and the commercially and recreationally important striped bass, the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia coastal shelf serves as an important spring and fall "flyway." Typically thought of as an established aerial route used by migratory birds to travel between feeding and breeding grounds, a recent study by scientists at the University of Maryla  more