CONCORD, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New England District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District recently released its online recreation brochure highlighting recreational opportunities at USACE projects, the Cape Cod Canal, and federal flood risk management reservoirs throughout New England. The brochure, entitled "Recreational Opportunities at Federal Flood Risk Management Reservoirs and the Cape Cod Canal 202  more

SEATTLE, Washington, April 23 (TNSPol) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on April 22, 2022: President Joe Biden will issue an executive order today that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America's federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change. Conservation groups welcomed the president's commit  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 23 (TNSfund) -- Creighton University issued the following news: A team led by Creighton University faculty has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize a collection of priceless artwork and documents chronicling a landmark nineteenth century expedition into the American interior. The project, The Natural Face of North America: A Public Portal to the Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art Museum, is the result of a co  more

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement n April 21, 2022, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. RM21-17-000) involving regional transmission planning and cost allocation notice of proposed rulemaking: * * * The broad purpose of this Commission's oversight of transmission planning under the Federal Power Act (FPA) is to provide consumers with reliable power at just and reasonable rates. I am  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 22 (TNSRes) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: Firearms have surpassed motor vehicles as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, according to new federal data analyzed by researchers at the University of Michigan. U-M researchers Jason Goldstick, Rebecca Cunningham and Patrick Carter co-authored an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine that quantifies the leading causes of death   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 23 -- The Massachusetts Executive Office of Education issued the following news release on April 22, 2022: The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded more than $250,000 total in Design Challenge grants to six educational organizations gearing up to provide STEM opportunities to students during the 5th annual statewide STEM Week to be held October 17 - 21, 2022. "For the past several years, our administration, through the leadership of Lt. Governor Polito and the  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 23 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The Wolf Administration has finalized the regulation to combat climate change and allow Pennsylvania to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), fulfilling a promise made in a 2019 Executive Order to take part in the market-based program. "Today we are already experiencing the effects of climate change and those impacts are only going to get wors  more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release on April 22, 2022: Following repeated calls from the Maine Delegation and Governor Janet Mills, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today said that the agency is working to implement a graduated enforcement effort for fisheries that have made good faith efforts to comply with new gear regulations by the May 1 deadline. Today's announcement comes in response to continued efforts from  more

GRAND PORTAGE, Minnesota, April 23 (TNSAwa) -- The U.S. Postal Service issued the following news release on April 22, 2022: The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the life and work of George Morrison, one of the nation's greatest modernist artists. Morrison is best known for his abstract landscapes and monumental wood collages that draw on his childhood memories and reflect a deep and abiding connection with the natural world. "A founding figure of Native American modernism, George Morrison challe  more