NORTON, Virginia, Nov. 23 (TNScapv)(TNSgov) -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on Nov. 22, 2022: Appalachian Voices has received $118,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund the Upper South and Appalachia Citizen Air Monitoring Project. The project will entail deploying roughly 80 fine and coarse particulate matter monitoring devices in communities where fossil fuel infrastructure or other sources of air pollution are present or proposed, and where air qua  more

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 24 (TNSgov) -- The Institute for Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 23, 2022: The Chancery Court for Davidson County dismissed all legal claims raised in two lawsuits challenging the Tennessee Education Savings Account Pilot Program ("ESA Program"), which gives thousands of low-and-middle-income Tennessee families trapped in failing public schools the ability to afford educational options that meet their children's needs. The Institute for Justice (IJ), the   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 21 (TNSconf) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release: Bert Jacobs, co-founder and Chief Executive Optimist of the $150 million lifestyle brand Life is Good(R), will address attendees as general session keynote speaker during the 2023 American Farm Bureau Convention. When Jacobs and his brother John started the company in 1994, they had $78 in their pockets, lived out of their van and sold T-shirts on the streets of Boston. Jacobs will   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 22 (TNSgov) -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on Nov. 21, 2022: Last week, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Harpeth Conservancy, filed an official complaint to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation alerting state officials to a massive bacterial bloom near a wastewater treatment plant outfall. That letter urges the department to impose stricter limits in that sewer plant's discharge per  more