AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, March 16 (TNSPer) -- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: Anja Smit, currently Librarian of Utrecht University, will be the new director of DANS, national expertise centre and repository for research data. She will be succeeding Henk Wals in mid-July, who is retiring. Anja Smit (61) has been Librarian of Utrecht University and Director of the University Library since 2010. She brings more than 30 years of national and internation  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on March 15, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement after government funding legislation for fiscal year (FY) 2022 was signed into law by President Biden. In the legislation, Senator Shaheen included and supported numero  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 16 (TNSRep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New England Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 15, 2022, entitled "Average Energy Prices in Boston-Cambridge-Newton - February 2022": Gasoline prices averaged $3.582 a gallon in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area in February 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that area gasoline prices were up $1.1  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 16 (TNSJou) -- The MetroHealth System issued the following news release: The MetroHealth System is helping to put focus on a treatment that will help millions of African American and Hispanic patients who suffer from moderate-to-severe asthma. In the United States, there are more than 3,300 asthma-attributed deaths in adults each year. Minority patients bear a disproportionate percentage of those incidences. They experience higher rates of asthma-related emergency depart  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 (TNSPol) -- The American Clean Power Association issued the following news release: RENEW Northeast, Inc. (RENEW) and the American Clean Power Association (ACP) today filed a complaint calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to find ISO New England Inc.'s (ISO) rules and practices concerning capacity accreditation and designation of operating reserves provide undue preferences to natural gas-fired generators. Generators that do not have dual-fuel capabili  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 16 -- Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) highlighted $7,778,838 in federal funding she successfully secured in a comprehensive government funding package for specific projects in the Third District. The package, which was signed into law today by President Joe Biden, was passed by the House last week. "In partnership with outstanding local organizations, I'm proud to have secured nearly $8 million  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner James P. Danly involving a hearing on March 3, 2022, on FERC guidance on natural gas pipelines: * * * Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the Committee and share my thoughts about FERC's recent policy statements. It is my firm belief that these policy statements should never have issued. They are ill-conceived, they are unlawful, and they  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, March 16 (TNStalk) -- The University of Massachusetts Lowell campus issued the following news release: Arachnophobes may not want to hear it, but the giant Joro spiders that have gained a foothold in Georgia and South Carolina are not worth worrying about, according to a UMass Lowell expert available for interviews. Transplanted from Asia, the Joro, or Trichonephila clavate, spider has established a home in the South and some believe they could make their way to New Engl  more