JACKSON, Mississippi, April 7 (TNSgov) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on April 5, 2023: Following a decade of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 524 river miles of critical habitat for the threatened Pearl darter. The fish have been wiped out in their namesake river and have lost 64% of their historic range in Mississippi and Louisiana because of oil and gas development, dams, mining, ur  more

LAPLACE, Louisiana, April 7 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 6, 2023: EPA is taking action against harmful air pollution from chemical manufacturing facilities by proposing a suite of new rules impacting more than 200 of the most toxic chemical manufacturing facilities in the nation, many of which are located in communities already overburdened by industrial pollution. The proposed rules will, if finalized, reduce toxic air pollutants such as ethylene oxid  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, April 5 (TNSper) -- The Water Institute issued the following news release: The Water Institute is pleased to welcome Mark Bartlett as the new Data Science and Machine Learning Practice Lead. Bartlett is the newest member of the Analytics, Computing, Technology (ACT) Team at The Water Institute, a group working to build a community of practice around how emerging technologies related to data analytics, computational science, data science and machine learning can enhance o  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 4 (TNSres) -- The Vera Institute of Justice issued the following news release on April 3, 2023: The Vera Institute of Justice has launched a new data hub providing comprehensive information on incarceration and detention spending in Louisiana to policymakers, advocates, researchers, and the wider public. Louisiana Locked Up: A Problem in Every Parish seeks to support evidence-based policymaking and advocacy through transparent, accessible data at the state and pari  more