LOS ANGELES, California, April 30 (TNSEve) -- The University of Southern California (USC) issued the following news release: Journalist and author Bina Venkataraman will share a message of courage amid crisis when she addresses USC's 137th and 138th commencement ceremony May 14. Taking the long view of our individual lives and of humanity's greatest challenges, Venkataraman, the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, infuses her call to action with rich stories and rigorous truth-telling.   more

AUGUSTA, Maine, April 29 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on April 28, 2021: The Mills Administration today introduced legislation to establish a 10-year moratorium on new offshore wind projects located in State waters. The moratorium would preserve State waters for valuable fishing and recreation, while reaffirming Maine's priority of locating offshore wind projects in Federal waters of the Gulf of Maine, where the State has proposed the nation's first research   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 (TNSRes) -- The Ocean Conservancy issued the following news release: Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Defense Initiative and 110 organizations representing national, regional, state and local entities signed a letter urging Congress to include $10 billion for ocean, Great Lakes, and coastal restoration and resilience projects in economic stimulus and infrastructure legislation. In the letter, the organizations highlight why Congress must make these essential investments. Currently, o  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on April 28, 2021: At a Commerce Appropriations Subcommittee hearing today, U.S. Senator Susan Collins urged U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai to support Maine's lobster industry by pushing China to uphold its promise to purchase more U.S. lobster. "The Maine lobster industry has been hard hit by the 25 percent retaliatory tariff that China imposed on the U.S. lobster industry in 2018. The Ph  more