WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command issued the following news: By Rachel Selby Pine Bluff Arsenal was designated in April by the Department of the Army as a Center for Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for Textile Manufacturing. This is the Arsenal's third CITE designation, having received designations for Chemical and Biological Defense Equipment in 2005, and Smoke Ammunition in 2017. PBA is known throughout the Organic Industrial Ba  more

PALO ALTO, California, June 8 (TNSjou) -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news release: Organisms grow to fit the space and resources available in their environments, leading to a vast diversity of body sizes and shapes within a population of the same species. What are the genetic and physiological mechanisms that determine how big an organism can grow? In insects and mammals, the cellular and molecular factors underpinning body size are well established. But in plant  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 2 (TNSawa) -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release: State environmental officials today recognized students from 27 schools across the Commonwealth for outstanding environmental actions as members of the "Green Team," a statewide environmental education program sponsored by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP). Student  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNScapv) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued the following news release on June 10, 2022: U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO and President Suzanne P. Clark addressed the Summit of the Americas to articulate commitments and concrete steps that the business community and government leaders advanced at the CEO Summit, which concluded yesterday. "All of us share a common destiny. We rise and fall together, and we must share a commitment drive progress," Clark said in her speech.  more

LOS ANGELES, California, June 8 -- Vice President Kamala Harris issued the following remarks on June 7, 2022, at the "In Her Hands" launch: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. Please have a seat. Good afternoon. Laurene, thank you for that introduction and all of the work that you and Emerson have been doing over so many years that is about addressing root causes and doing it in a way that is informed by a sense of humanity and a collective sense of purpose. Thank you for that  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on June 7, 2022: * * * Vice President Harris Announces More Than $1.9 Billion in New Private Sector Commitments as Part of Call to Action for Northern Central America The Vice President, U.S. Department of State, and the Partnership for Central America (PCA), come together to announce private sector commitments now total more than $3.2 billion Vice President Kamala Harris today announced more than $1.9 billion in new priva  more