WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment issued the following statement by Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Massachusetts, at a member day hearing on March 16, 2022, on New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam: * * * Thank you for providing this opportunity for input as you craft the 2022 Water Resources Development Act. I want to thank the Committee for the effort that you have all undertaken to make this Congress a historic one for i  more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, March 22 -- The National Pest Management Association issued the following news release on March 21, 2022: The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) today released its bi-annual Bug Barometer(R), forecasting what Americans can expect from pest populations in their respective regions across the U.S. this spring and summer. Following an exceptionally warm winter, and with more warm temperatures and rainy conditions expected for much of the country, NPMA entomologists are e  more

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, March 22 (TNSfund) -- Stockton University issued the following news: New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher got a taste of the sweet life at Stockton University during a tour of the university's sugar bush and sugar shack on March 16. Stockton is in its second year of an almost $1 million federally-funded pilot program to research and develop the feasibility of developing a maple syrup industry in the southern New Jersey region using red maples, which are plen  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 22 (TNSPar) -- Wake Technical Community College issued the following news: Wake Tech Community College and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) have announced a new partnership and articulation agreement that provides direct transfer opportunities between the two institutions, in the spirit of academic cooperation. Under the agreement, students from Wake Tech will be able to transfer up to 90 credits and complete their bachelor's degree online with Southern N  more

TORONTO, Ontario, March 22 (TNSJou) -- York University issued the following news on March 21, 2022: * * * Bees in the 6ix need more functional green space, say researchers * * * "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot." Written and sung by Joni Mitchell in the 1970s, those lyrics still hold true today as pavement and concrete structures squeeze out Toronto's native bumblebees, say York University researchers in a new study published today. The research found areas of the city with the mo  more