HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 22 (TNSgov) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut issued the following news release on April 21, 2023: Two new plaintiffs last night joined Beatty v. Lamont, a lawsuit seeking to eliminate Connecticut's "prison debt" law, under which the state forces people it incarcerated to pay hundreds of dollars for each day they spent in prison. In an amended complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, Natasha Tosado and Douglas Johnso  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, April 20 (TNSper) -- Americares, a health-focused relief and development organization, issued the following news release: Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, has welcomed Meenakshi Batra as director of Americares India. In her new role, Batra is responsible for designing, implementing and directing innovative health programs that strengthen health systems and expand access to care for people affected by poverty or disaster across 23 states   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 21 -- The Connecticut Business and Industry Association issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: The state's largest business organization issued the following response to today's release of the March 2020 employment report. "March's gains continue a positive start to the year, bringing year-to-date growth to 15,000 new jobs," CBIA president and CEO Chris DiPentima said. "Adding another 1,100 jobs--including 500 in the private sector--is encouraging,  more

NEW YORK, April 19 (TNSrpt) -- The International Refugee Assistance Project issued the following news release: Yesterday, a Connecticut federal judge ruled in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case that the U.S. government has not proved that a report on the Muslim ban issued by the Trump administration can be shielded from the public under the presidential communications privilege and ordered a factual hearing to be scheduled. The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) is representi  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 19 (TNStalk) -- The National Waste and Recycling Association issued the following statement on April 18, 2023: * * * Lew Dubuque, Northeast Region Vice President for the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) testified against bills in Connecticut that would establish an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program. In his comments, Dubuque argued that Connecticut's recycling program is working well and EPR is not needed. Furthermore, the EPR program would s  more

NORWALK, Connecticut, April 19 (TNSpconf) -- The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued the following news on April 18, 2023: Representatives of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ) held a meeting on April 17, 2023 in Norwalk, Connecticut. The meeting was the thirty-second in a series of meetings between the FASB and the ASBJ to further the Boards' cooperative efforts to develop high-quality global accounting standards. At this  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 21 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release: Power outages across Sudan have destroyed cold chain storage facilities for lifesaving vaccines, as well as the national stock of insulin and several antibiotics, putting millions of children at risk of disease and further health complications, Save the Children said. The aid organizatio  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 21 (TNSgov) -- Save the Sound issued the following news release: Members of the CT Coalition for Climate Action have reviewed the 1990-2021 Connecticut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, released by the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection this morning, and found the report supports the urgency of legislative action this spring. Connecticut's latest greenhouse gas inventory asserts that the state has met its relatively modest 2020 greenhouse   more