WINDSOR, Connecticut, July 20 (TNSconf) -- LIMRA issued the following news release on July 19, 2023: The Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, will give the closing keynote presentation at the 2023 LIMRA Annual Conference. The event will be held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD on Oct. 22 - 24. Serving as New Zealand's Prime Minister from 2017 - 2023, Ardern led her country through the COVID-19 pandemic. She also  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 (TNStalk) -- The American Clean Power Association issued the following statement on July 17, 2023: * * * The American Clean Power Association (ACP) released the following statement today from Josh Kaplowitz, Vice President for Offshore Wind, after the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the availability of the final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed Revolution Wind Farm project offshore of Rhode Island. This is the final step before   more

WASHINGTON, July 19 (TNSgov) -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release on July 18, 2023: New laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group have found the toxic "forever chemicals" known as PFAS in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, including major metropolitan areas. This new round of test results - based on samples of water from the homes of residents in 18 states, from California to Connecticut - shows the widespread presence of PFAS in  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, July 21 (TNSper) -- The National Council on Family Relations issued the following news release: The National Council on Family Relations' (NCFR) membership has elected Kari L. Adamsons, Ph. D., as a member-at-large of the NCFR Board of Directors. Dr. Adamsons is an associate professor of human development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She is a nationally recognized expert on fathers, including father-child relationships, co-parenting, shared parenti  more

FARMINGTON, Connecticut, July 21 (TNSjou) -- The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws issued the following news release: Cannabis consumers use fewer opioids following neck fusion surgery than do their non-consuming counterparts, according to case-control data published in the North American Spine Society Journal. A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine assessed opioid utilization trends following neck fusion surgery in patients   more

COLEBROOK, Connecticut, July 19 (TNSpp) -- Save the Sound issued the following news release on July 18, 2023: A groundbreaking win for open space protection in Northwest Connecticut is being celebrated by the Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy (NCLC) and Save the Sound, who have reached a Memorandum of Understanding with The Metropolitan District (MDC) to negotiate the terms and conditions of a conservation easement on approximately 5,500 acres. The land is located on the watershed tributar  more

FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, July 18 -- 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 on July 17, 2023: Failure to renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative means millions more children around the world will face devastating hunger, Save the Children said today. Signed in July 2022, the deal opened up export routes from Ukraine that had frozen when war escalated in February that  more