BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 30 (TNSper) -- Boston Public Schools issued the following news release: On Wednesday, June 29, 2022, the Boston School Committee voted to offer the position of Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (BPS) to Mary Skipper. The vote took place during a public meeting at which School Committee members discussed the qualifications of two finalists for the Superintendent position. Last week, BPS hosted numerous public interviews with the two candidates with various   more

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 2 (TNSawa) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: By Mary Kate Brogan Dawnie Walton has won the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year. Her winning book, "The Final Revival of Opal & Nev," published by Simon & Schuster, follows the story of an interracial rock duo's sudden 1970s rise to stardom, the band's headline-making breakup and the secrets that, decades lat  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSreact) -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release on June 30, 2022: * * * EWG: 'Court now a tool of far-right interests' * * * A ruling today by the U.S. Supreme Court will hamstring the federal government's ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that is necessary to tackle the existential threat of the climate crisis. The court's decision in the case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't just pose a  more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, June 30 (TNSawa) -- George Mason University issued the following news: Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said this week it is possible to have a reformed and more equitable criminal justice system that will help keep all Americans safe. Holder, who served under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2015, spoke at George Mason University's Mason Square in Arlington, where he was the keynote speaker during Monday's awards luncheon at the Center for Evidence-Based C  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 1 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued the following statement on June 30, 2022: * * * AG Healey today issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v. EPA. Today's decision limits the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants. "We are deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court's misguided decision giving in to the coal industry a  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 28 -- TheDream.US, a college and career success program for immigrant youth, issued the following news release on June 28, 2022: This weekend, the New York Times published a collection of powerful, first-person opinion essays from current and former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients as we commemorate this month's 10-year anniversary of DACA. The essays, "Growing Up in the Shadow of DACA," drive home the transformative nature of this popular and   more

WASHINGTON, July 1 (TNStalk) -- Oil Change International issued the following statement on June 30, 2022: * * * The United States Supreme Court issued a ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finding that the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act is limited in scope, and that the approach taken in President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan is illegal. In response, Collin Rees, United States Program Manager at Oil Change International, released the following stat  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSawa) -- The White House issued the following news release: President Biden named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. President Biden has long said that America can be defined by on  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following weekly column on June 27, 2022: Since President Joe Biden took office, gas prices have more than doubled due to his anti-American energy policies. These painful prices at the pump have undoubtedly put excruciating stress on American families, forcing some workers to quit their jobs because they cannot afford the commute in their vehicles. And what was the president's proposal to fix this crisis of his own making? Last week,   more

WASHINGTON, June 30 (TNSper) -- Resources for the Future issued the following news release: Resources for the Future (RFF) is pleased to announce that economist Aaron Bergman has joined the organization as a fellow. Bergman, who comes to RFF from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), will be expanding RFF's work at the intersection of policy research, economics, and climate change. "I'm tremendously excited to be joining RFF," Bergman said. "During my career, I have worked with and o  more