NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (TNSPol) -- The Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following news release on Dec. 16, 2021: A district court judge ruled that an organization that advocates for the descendants of enslaved people may pursue its lawsuit challenging an illegal rezoning ordinance that would allow the construction of a massive grain terminal in a historic Black community near the Mississippi river in the heart of "Cancer Alley." The ruling sets up a legal showdown over an ordinance that s  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec. 16 (TNSOps) -- The Conservation Fund issued the following news release: * * * The Conservation Fund's purchase of 8,760 acres adjacent to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge will enhance recreational access to the river, support climate and fire resiliency, and enable longleaf pine habitat restoration * * * The Conservation Fund announced its purchase of 8,760 acres along the upper Suwannee River in southeast Georgia, the first step to safeguarding the riverfront f  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2021: Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC, successors to Monsanto Company, will complete the cleanup of four former landfills and waste lagoons in Sauget, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. The settlement will require the companies to reimburse EPA $700,000 in past costs spent at the sites and take responsibility for implementing EPA's cleanup plan estimated to cost $17.9 million.   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Angie Craig urged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation Margaret Anderson Kelliher to direct federal funding authorized by Congress as part of the bipartisan infrastructure package toward local projects in the Second District. Craig, who worked closely with local leaders to identify the projects that would have the most immediate posit  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (TNSRep) -- Resources for the Future issued the following news release: A new paper and data tool identify US counties that are not only economically vulnerable to the energy transition but are also susceptible to problems like pollution and low education rates --issues that will need to be considered in the shift away from fossil fuels. Accompanied by an interactive data tool, a new working paper from Resources for the Future (RFF) considers which communities are most econ  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 14 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2021: United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) today joined Cavuto Live on Fox News to discuss the deadly storms that went through Tennessee and the mid-south region overnight Friday. Partial Transcript Hagerty on the overnight storms in Tennessee and the mid-south region: "You were just talking with the [County] Judge there in Arkansas, come across the Mississippi river, I think we  more

MISSOULA, Montana, Dec. 14 (TNSJou) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2021: For decades, climate change has had detrimental impacts on Pacific salmon populations. Spawning streams are overheating and droughts are drying up salmon habitats entirely, impacting many food webs from the Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges to the Pacific Ocean. But in a new study involving researchers from the University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station, scientists   more