BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 25 (TNSPol) -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, ruled today that the Baltimore Police Department's (BPD) aerial surveillance program, which put the daytime movements of virtually all Baltimore residents under surveillance for 12 hours a   more

WASHINGTON, June 25 (TNSOps) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on June 24, 2021: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Maryland State Police to release any video or other records on a possible bias-motivated hit and run incident targeting a Palestinian-American Muslim family. CAIR's request for video, audio and other documentation of the collision and its  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 24 -- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation issued the following statement: * * * The Chesapeake Bay's dead zone is predicted to be smaller than average this summer. The forecast, issued by researchers from the Chesapeake Bay Program, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, University of Michigan, and U.S. Geological Survey, is largely based on the amount of rainfall from January to May. Following the release of the prediction, Beth McGee, Chesapeake Bay  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, June 25 (TNSPol) -- Catholic Legal Immigration Network issued the following news release: The work done by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is vitally important. From asylum to Temporary Protected Status, to green cards and citizenship, USCIS is the gateway to hope and life-changing opportunities for immigrants and their families. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services needs a leader who believes in its mission, understands its structure, supports its   more

FREDERICK, Maryland, June 25 (TNSRes) -- The Diesel Technology Forum issued the following news release: In Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin, the states that comprise EPA Region 5, the newest, cleanest, near-zero-emissions commercial diesel truck technologies now make up 53.6 percent of the diesel-powered commercial vehicles on U.S. roads, according to the Diesel Technology Forum's analysis of 2020 U.S. vehicles in operation data (Class 3-8) provided by IHS Markit. "Am  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 (TNSOps) -- Resources for the Future issued the following news release: As China experiences rapid economic growth, a new working paper from Resources for the Future (RFF) and the University of Maryland finds that vehicle ownership is growing at a faster rate than previously forecasted--a sign that the country's climate policies will need to be more aggressive to account for the transportation sector's rising emissions. The new working paper (https://www.rff.org/publication  more