WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -- Stefanie Smallhouse, president of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, Gilbert, has issued a public comment on the Environmental Protection Agency notice entitled "National Level Threatened and Endangered Species Biological Evaluations for Clothianidin, Imidacloprid and Thiamethoxam". The comment was written on Oct. 25, 2021, and posted on Nov. 4, 2021: * * * The Arizona Farm Bureau Federation represents farmers and ranchers from all across Arizona. Agriculture contribute  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 11 -- Tucson Electric Power issued the following news release: Tucson Electric Power (TEP) contributed nearly $480,000 to 36 nonprofit groups during the third quarter of 2021, with a focus on education assistance and community support. We funded scholarships for students seeking technical careers and supported conservation awareness, youth mental health and adult literacy efforts. TEP donations also funded field trips that allowed students to experience the arts, helped h  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 --The Food Services Department at the Tucson Unified School District, Arizona, has issued a public comment on the Food and Nutrition Service notice entitled "Request for Information: Buy American in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program". The comment was posted on Nov. 2, 2021: * * * Questions for Commenters 1. What changes, if any, to the Buy American provision and guidance would you recommend to the FNS to support the Buy American executive order  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 11 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: A University of Arizona-led effort to reconstruct Earth's climate since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far out of bounds human activity has pushed the climate system. The study, published Wednesday in Nature, has three main findings: * It verifies that the main drivers of climate change since the last ice age are rising greenhouse   more

TUCSON, Arizona, Nov. 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release on Nov. 11, 2021: * * * A team of UArizona-led researchers think that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa might actually be a miniature moon. * * * A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo'oalewa could be a fragment of our moon, according to a paper published today in Nature Communications Earth and Environment by a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona. Kamo'oalewa is a quasi-satellite -  more