NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (TNSeve) -- The Eastern Psychological Association has scheduled its 93rd Meeting for March 3-5, 2022: According to the agency website: On March 3-5, we will be returning to an in-person conference with the 93rd Meeting of the EPA at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. We fully expect the 2022 conference will take place in an environment that is clean, safe and comfortable. The 2022 meeting will continue EPA's tradition of offering cutting edge developments in psychologica  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Dec. 31 (TNSPol) -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline's Water Quality Certification, which is a permit required by Section 401 of the Clean Water Act to ensure that a project can meet water quality standards. West Virginia's approval was required before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could move forward with dredge-and-fill permits for the pipeline. In   more

WILMINGTON, Dec. 30 (TNSPol)(TNSCapv) -- The Center for Environmental Health issued the following joint news release on Dec. 29, 2021, with five organizations: Six North Carolina community and environmental justice groups are "deeply disappointed" by EPA's "inadequate" response yesterday to their petition asking the Agency to require Chemours to conduct a critical epidemiological study and health toxicity testing on 54 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that are putting hundreds of thou  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 28 -- The Journal of Rural Health, a journal that says it features rural health research, policy discussion and education information from the National Rural Health Association, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Winter 2022 edition: CANCER, CANCER SURVIVORS, AND TREATMENT: * Factors Predicting Participation in the Prospective Genomic Sequencing Study, Total Cancer Care (TCC), in Kentucky * Exceptional Survival Among Kentucky Stage   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) has signed an agreement with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) that lays the groundwork to transfer more than 3,500 acres of scenic land to the state. Transferring this federally owned land moves EM closer to its ultimate vision for the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) as an ass  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Dec. 31 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Dec. 30, 2021: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) issued a water quality certification for the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline, under section 401 of the Clean Water Act. Planned to run over 300 miles through West Virginia and Virginia, the pipeline would cross hundreds of streams, wetlands and several major rivers that would lead to long-term degradation to wate  more