WASHINGTON, April 15 (TNSPer) -- The White House issued the following news release: President Joe Biden appointed the following individuals to serve in key regional leadership roles at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA): * Emily Cole, USDA State Executive Director, Farm Service Agency, Connecticut * John Patterson, USDA State Executive Director, Farm Service Agency, Ohio * Gail Greenman, USDA State Executive Director, Farm Service A  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 (TNSPer) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on April 14, 2022: President Joe Biden announced his intent to appoint eight U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regional positions, including five Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Directors and three Rural Development (RD) State Directors. "Here at USDA, we continue to add experience and talented individuals to our state offices," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "I have ful  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 (TNStalk) -- The Small Business Administration issued the following statement: * * * Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice for America's 32.5 million small businesses in President Biden's Cabinet, issued the following statement praising President Biden's appointment of Aikta Marcoulier as Regional Administrator for the Rocky Mountain region: "Aikta Marcoulier's exemplary public service and experience in   more

WASHINGTON, April 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on April 14, 2022: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it has awarded $9.98 million to 14 collaborative, multi-state projects impacting 28 states to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. specialty crops. The funding is made possible through the Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (SCMP), reauthorized by the 2018 Farm Bill. SCMP strengthens food safety  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, April 14 (TNSRes) -- Clark University issued the following news: Clark graduate students working on a range of topics -- from improving the use of satellites and artificial intelligence in flood tracking to examining the socio-environmental factors that affect the existence and growth of urban forests -- have received fellowships from the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund, which supports summer research opportunities in environmental studies. The Fund has provided funding to ma  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, April 14 (TNSsro) -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following electric order (No. 26,609) involving Eversource Energy and Consolidated Communications: Joint Petition to Approve Pole Asset Transfer Order on Motion for Protective Order and Confidential Treatment This order denies in part and grants in part the Motion for Protective Order and Confidential Treatment filed by the Joint Petitioners on January 31, 2022. I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY On Feb  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- Gov. Tom Wolf, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 14, 2022: Governor Tom Wolf announced today that UnityLab will create 63 new jobs and relocate its New England-based headquarters to Pennsylvania with the acquisition of manufacturing company Hoffman-New Yorker Inc. in Dushore, Sullivan County. "This project will provide a huge boost to the regional economy in Sullivan County," said Gov. Wolf. "Pennsylvania has so much to offer to bu  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 15 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on April 14, 2022: In front of the offices of Independent System Operator of New England (ISO-NE), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today called on federal regulators to reject and require reform of the recent proposal sent by New England's grid operator to unjustifiably disadvantage clean energy in favor of dirty fossil fuels and unnecessarily drive up energy bills for New England hou  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on April 14, 2022: The Surface Transportation Board today announced a decision approving the revised merger application filed by CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSX) to acquire control of Pan Am Systems, Inc., and its short line railroad subsidiaries (Pan Am). Pan Am owns rail lines and provides rail service on a freight rail network in New England, from Maine in the north to  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, April 15 (TNSJou) -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Many human experiences were uniquely altered during the COVID-19 pandemic including a significant rise in the number of people seeking outdoor recreation options during quarantine. In a series of studies looking at this trend, researchers at the University of New Hampshire found a dramatic increase during the pandemic of visitors to the parks and protected areas of New England that res  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 14 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news: A five-year, $13 million grant to study how certain infectious agents evolve to spread chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been awarded to a UTHealth Houston research team led by Claudio Soto, PhD, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Soto, principal investigator of the study and a professor in the Department of Neurology with McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houst  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 15 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: In a "Clinical Practice" review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, John Wysolmerski, MD, professor of medicine (endocrinology) at Yale School of Medicine provides a clinical update on hypercalcemia in malignancy, which often complicates the care of cancer patients. "This is an update of a syndrome that led to the discovery of parathyroid hormone-related protein in our endocrine section   more