DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 25 (TNSpp) -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release: One school in each of the 32 National Football League (NFL) team hometowns has won a $1,000 grant for increasing physical activity, as part of the NFL and the American Heart Association's NFL PLAY 60 Race to Super Bowl LVII, a fitness tracking competition which took place September 26th to October 26th, 2022. Rooted in American Heart Association science, the NFL PLAY 60 initiative helps children  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Jan. 25 (TNSpp) -- The Natural Resources Council of Maine posted the following news release on Jan. 24, 2023: Maine labor and conservation groups today unveiled a bill that would boost the development of responsibly sited floating offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine by requiring a competitive procurement of 2.8 GW of floating offshore wind over the next 12 years, enough to power 980,000 homes with renewable energy. "I'm here because Maine is the place to be for this industry. It  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 26 -- The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued the following joint news release with five states, on Jan. 25, 2023: A coalition of New England states today jointly announced steps they are taking to pursue federal funding designed to encourage transmission infrastructure investment. In concept papers filed with the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") recently, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont r  more

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Jan. 26 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news on Jan. 25, 2023: In a peer-reviewed study on the real-world effectiveness of updated bivalent mRNA vaccines, researchers at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health found that bivalent boosters are more effective than original monovalent boosters at preventing COVID-19-related hospitalization and death. The study  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Federal law prohibits employers from punishing workers who exercise their legal rights * * * A Manchester chimney services contractor has paid a total of $26,163 to three workers to resolve allegations that the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's anti-retaliation provisions enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. Division   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member and the only woman on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are calling on the Biden administration to guarantee access to adequate health care services, including reproductive health care and post-sexual assault care, for women employees at the State Depa  more

TAMPA, Florida, Jan. 26 (TNSper) -- The Shriners Hospitals for Children issued the following news: John J. Edwards Jr., LNHA, of Purling, New York, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Governors for Shriners Children's New England. John has been a Board Member since 2016, joining the executive committee in 2021 as vice chairman. John was first introduced to the work of the Shriners in 1998. He instantly fell in love with the Shriners Children's mission and jumped at the opportunity to joi  more

ORONO, Maine, Jan. 26 (TNSjou) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Searun Rainbow smelt -- a culturally and ecologically valuable fish for New England anglers, consumers and marine ecosystems -- is on the decline. Determining the extent of that decline, however, is difficult in Maine. Searun smelt can be easy to miss because they only enter coastal spawning streams from deeper waters during a few cold, wet nights each spring, and they depart the streams by early mornin  more