WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: * * * Massachusetts power plant maintains safety distinction since 2005 * * * Participant: Dighton Power Dighton, Massachusetts Description: Dighton Power employs about 15 workers at this site, a natural gas power plant generating electricity for the New England power grid. Duration: OSHA first recognized the facility in 2005 as a "Star" site, the highest   more

AUGUSTA, Maine, April 12 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: A broad coalition of organizations - including religious leaders, medical professionals, reproductive health care experts, and others - are strongly endorsing legislation from Governor Janet Mills, Senate President Troy Jackson, and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross to make clear in Maine law that a decision about whether to have an abortion later in pregnancy will be made by a woman and h  more

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island, April 12 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: Billions of tiny baby oysters will soon have a new high-tech nursery in Wakefield. Rhode Island shellfish farmers will soon have access to a healthier, more predictable supply of oyster spat to produce consistently high-quality oysters year-round. And University of Rhode Island researchers will soon have a new state-of-the-art research and innovation center to study bi  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by John C. Goodman, president of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research, involving a hearing on March 22, 2023, entitled "Drug Shortage Health and National Security Risks: Underlying Causes and Needed Reforms." * * * Jenny Morrill, a Kinston, New York, mother and former arts administrator, had been battling ovarian cancer since 2007. When she went for her chemotherap  more