BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 28 -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on July 27, 2022: The Baker-Polito Administration announced today that $440,000 in grants have been awarded to 44 cities and towns to help purchase mattress collection containers. Importantly, the grants will assist municipalities as they work to comply with the mattress waste disposal ban, which is set to be implemented on November 1, 2022. Under this regulation, old mat  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 29 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * As communities confront the persistent presence of chemical pollutants, Joseph Braun, an associate professor of epidemiology, discusses new research findings and what individuals can do to decrease their exposure. * * * For nearly two decades, Brown University Associate Professor of Epidemiology Joseph Braun has been studying the human health effects, from before conception through adolesc  more

NEW DELHI, India, July 27 -- The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry issued the following news release on July 26, 2022: Mr Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, Govt of India yesterday asserted that India should be aspiring for much faster and much deeper growth. "Even at 8 per cent growth in our GDP over the next 30 years, India may be well beyond $30 trillion economy. Women power will play an important ro  more

NEW DELHI, India, July 29 -- The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry issued the following news release on July 28, 2022: Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha (IPICOL) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) today signed an MoU announcing FICCI as National Industry Partner for the 'Make in Odisha Conclave 2022', which is scheduled to be held from November 30th to December 4th 2022. The MoU signing ceremony was presided over by Mr   more

MIAMI, Florida, July 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, issued the following news release on July 28, 2022: Mark Grenon, 64, made his initial appearance today in federal court in Miami, Florida, after being extradited from Colombia. Grenon is charged--along with his three sons, Jonathan Grenon, 36, Jordan Grenon, 28, and Joseph Grenon, 34--with fraudulently marketing and selling "Miracle Mineral Solution," a toxic industrial bleach, as a cure fo  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 28 (TNSper) -- The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston issued the following news release on July 26, 2022: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced the appointment of Dr. Nadirah Mansour as the inaugural Assistant Curator of Islamic Art. Working in collaboration with Islamic communities in the Greater Boston area and beyond, Mansour will draw on the Museum's collection--among the most important holdings of Islamic art in the country--to create innovative exhibi  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release on July 29, 2022: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, a senior member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that she secured a total of $116,747,000 for 26 projects across the University of Maine System in the draft Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bills. The bills, which were officially released by the full Senate Appropriations Committee today, must still be voted upon by the full Senate and H  more

HOUSTON, Texas, July 26 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Lab manipulates dead spiders' legs with a puff of air to serve as grabbers * * * Spiders are amazing. They're useful even when they're dead. Rice University mechanical engineers are showing how to repurpose deceased spiders as mechanical grippers that can blend into natural environments while picking up objects, like other insects, that outweigh them. "It happens to be the case that the spider, af  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * A longtime partnership between the Tucson Fire Department and researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences provided evidence that occupational exposure as a firefighter causes cancer. * * * The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently classified occupational exposure as a firefighter as carcinogenic, changing the previous classification of possibly carcinogenic. The  more