WACO, Texas, May 15 (TNSOps) -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news on May 14, 2021: Sacred Heart running back Julius Chestnut and South Carolina State defensive back Decobie Durant headline the 2021 Spring AFCA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Coaches' All-America Team announced today by the American Football Coaches Association. The AFCA has selected an All-America team since 1945 and currently selects teams in all five of its divisions. What makes   more

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, May 20 (TNSRes) -- West Virginia University issued the following news: Two of West Virginia's mountain-loving salamander species are wrestling for resources and space as climate change threatens their habitats. Researchers with the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design have slithered in to figure out how to preserve them both. Herpetologist Donald Brown, research assistant professor of wildlife and fisheries resources, is  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, House and Urban Development and Related Agencies issued the following statement by Rep. John Rose, R-Tennessee, as part of a virtual member's day hearing on fiscal 2022 appropriations: * * * I represent Tennessee's Sixth District, a beautiful district in Middle Tennessee. Made up of nineteen counties, my district is over fifty percent rural and today, I am advocating for two major priorities of rural and agricultura  more

TUCSON, Arizona, May 19 (TNSPar) -- The International Dark-Sky Association issued the following news release on May 18, 2021: The Appalachian Mountain Club's (AMC) Maine Woods property on Tuesday became the first International Dark Sky Park designated in New England. Because of significant light pollution affecting most of the eastern United States, there are only a few International Dark Sky Parks in the region. Alongside nearby Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, which was designate  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, May 18 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: The Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSMRE) over its failure to require needed improvements and stronger requirements for West Virginia's federally-approved surface mining program to ensure coal companies fully fund reclamation bonds. West Virginia's exist  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release on May 19, 2021: Congressman Robert Aderholt issued the following statement announcing a grant for $59,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission to fund a mobile visitors center in Marshall County. The grant is being awarded to Marshall County Tourism and Sports, formerly known as the Marshall County Convention and Visitors Bureau. "I'm excited to announce this grant to Marshall County Tourism and Sport  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,550,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to the city of Hinton for an infrastructure project. This project will be matched with $2,000,000 in state and local funds and will be   more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on May 21, 2021: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,550,000 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to the city of Hinton for an infrastructure project. This project will be matched with $2,000,000 in state and local funds and will be used to replace 13,010 linear feet of terracotta sewer lines, separa  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on May 19, 2021: The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today the appointment of Meryl Harrell as Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) and the appointment of Terry Cosby as Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). They will begin their positions on Monday, May 24. Meryl Harrell most recently served as the Executive Director of the Southern Appalachia  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on May 20, 2021: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the Greer Commission of Public Works, Greer, South Carolina, to construct a new pump station needed to accommodate the expansion of the region's automotive sector. This EDA project, to be matched with $2.  more

LOS ANGELES, California, May 18 (TNSRes) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news release: Organizations and agencies charged with protecting biodiversity have a conundrum - how do you protect something that will not stay still? An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Southern California, and Virginia Tech received a National Science Foundation grant to help conservation practit  more