CHICAGO, Illinois, July 22 (TNSCapV) -- Alianza Americas issued the following news release: Alianza Americas, Latin America Working Group, Presente.org, and 209 advocacy organizations sent a letter to President Biden, Vice President Harris, Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas, and Secretary of State Blinken urging the administration to immediately grant new Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. The letter also urges the administration to des  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 (TNSRep) -- The American Council on Renewable Energy issued the following news release on July 22, 2021: Each additional gigawatt (GW) of transmission capacity connecting the Texas power grid (ERCOT) with neighboring states in the Southeast could have saved nearly $1 billion and kept the heat on for approximately 200,000 Texas homes during Winter Storm Uri in February of 2021, according to a new report released today by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The r  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 23 -- Boston Public Schools issued the following news release on July 22, 2021: Mayor Kim Janey announced the appointment of Rafaela Polanco Garcia and Lorena Lopera to the Boston School Committee. The move follows her commitment in June to fill two vacancies and move the committee forward with greater equity, opportunity and accountability. Polanco Garcia is a Boston Public Schools (BPS) parent and serves as Director of Parent Engagement and Organizing at St. Stephe  more

BOSTON, July 23 -- The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute issued the following news release: In a sign that pain management for patients dying of cancer is worsening, a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators has found a sharp decline in opioid access among these patients over a recent 10-year period, even as many more of them turned to hospital emergency rooms for pain treatment. The findings, in a paper published online today by the Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggest that effort  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 23 (TNSPol) -- Environment America issued the following news release: As news breaks of another serious North Atlantic right whale entanglement, conservation advocates along the East Coast called on Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to immediately implement new rules to save the eastern United States' most endangered marine mammal. Recent population estimates put the North Atlantic right whale population at 356, the lowest in decades. Scientists have linked the whale   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 23 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Nathaniel R. Mendell, issued the following news release on July 21, 2021: The former supervisory pharmacist of the now-defunct New England Compounding Center (NECC) was resentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak. The defendant was resentenced after the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed his criminal convictions but vacated his sen  more

PORTLAND, Maine, July 23 (TNSOps) -- The Maine Medical Center issued the following news release on July 21, 2021 MaineHealth, northern New England's largest health system and Maine's largest private employer, announced today that it is making a $61 million investment in its workforce by raising wages across its system, including setting a system-wide minimum wage for the organization of $17 per hour. The wage increases will include a market adjustment to base wages of at least 2 percent for mo  more

MANASQUAN, New Jersey, July 23 (TNSPol) -- The National Conference of Insurance Legislators issued the following news release: The National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) concluded a successful hybrid 2021 Summer National Meeting (Meeting) in Boston, MA on July 17th at the Westin Boston Waterfront. 350 total attendees participated in the Summer Meeting - 273 in person and 77 virtually consisting of 68 legislators from 29 states, 28 first time legislators, 5 Insurance Commissioners (or  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 21, 2021: U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline today announced that seven high-risk, Rhode Island nonprofit organizations will be receiving funding to harden and upgrade their physical security to defend against violent attack. Funded by the Department of Homeland Security's Nonprofit Security Grant Program, these grants will help nonprof  more