NEW YORK, July 24 -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following statement on July 23 by Lead Senior Scientist Richard Denison: "Today EPA released a list of potential candidates for a key chemical safety advisory committee that is critically flawed from the outset: Candidates were solicited and screened under an illegal directive issued by scandal-plagued former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt that barred any scientist receiving EPA grant funding from serving on the agency's dozens of a  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 25 -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: Dodd Galbreath, conservationist and founder of Lipscomb University's Institute for Sustainable Practice, has received a Robert Sparks Walker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation. The award is part of the annual Governor's Environmental Stewardship Awards announced on Friday, July 24. Galbreath was one of two 2020 recipients. Bobby Fulcher, park manager and  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on July 24: Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) voted in favor of H.R. 7608, a $259.5 billion appropriations package that comprises the Fiscal Year 2021 State-Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Interior-Environment, and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs appropriations bills. The funding package passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 224-189. * * * "With an eye towards the future and with a focus   more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 24 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: The COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19), which includes the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, announced results July 22 of its second national observational study. The study compares the outcomes of cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 to the treatments they received. Patients who were treated with the antiviral drug remdesivir fared   more