BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 19 (TNSfund) (TNSres) -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 18, 2022: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the University of Vermont approximately $200,000 in funding to perform a study to assess current capacity at on farm digesters to accept food wastes; the potential impacts of food waste co-digestion on biogas production; and the potential impacts of co-digestion on nutrients and microplastics in digestat  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, May 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded the University of Vermont (UVM) approximately $200,000 in funding to perform a study to assess current capacity at on farm digesters to accept food wastes; the potential impacts of food waste co-digestion on biogas production; and the potential impacts of co-digestion on nutrients and microplastics in digestate. The goal of this grant opportunity na  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy issued the following testimony by Malcolm Woolf, president and CEO of the National Hydropower Association, involving a hybrid hearing on May 12, 2022, entitled "Modernizing Hydropower: Licensing and Reforms for a Clean Energy Future": * * * Thank you, Chairman Rush and Ranking Member Upton, as well as Chairman Pallone and Ranking Member McMorris Rodgers, for hosting today's Energy Subcommittee hearing on hydropower lice  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Rachael S. Rollins, issued the following news release on May 16, 2022: A Lawrence man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to misusing a Social Security number to fraudulently obtain a Massachusetts ID and driver's license as well as MassHealth benefits. Manuel Alejandro Pujols Diaz, 37, pleaded guilty to one count of false representation of a Social Security number and one count of aggravated ide  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 (TNStalk) -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following agency statement: * * * The Biden Administration has made clear that the current climate emergency is one of its top priorities, pledging "to take swift action to tackle the climate crisis." Federal agencies have been asked how they will integrate this priority into their work. We in the Division of Preservation and Access (DPA) know that cultural heritage professionals are responding to climate chan  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 16 (TNScapv) -- Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: A new effort was launched to rally support for locating the newly-funded federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in Massachusetts. The effort includes top leaders from Massachusetts higher education, industry and government convened by Governor Charlie Baker, U.S. House Committee on Ways & Means Chair Richard E. Neal, University of Massachusetts President Ma  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 18 -- The United Nations World Health Organization issued the following news release: The World Health Organization, with the support of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization and its COVID-19 Vaccines Working Group, continues to review the emerging evidence on the need for and timing of additional booster doses for the currently available COVID-19 vaccines which have received Emergency Use Listing (EUL). The statements and conclusions in this do  more