TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 18 -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a comprehensive privacy bill (S. 332/A.B. 1971) into law that will extend baseline privacy rights to consumers, including the right to access, delete, and stop certain disclosures of their personal information. New Jersey becomes the 13th state to pass a privacy bill into law, after California, Utah, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Oregon  more

SOUTH WINDSOR, Connecticut, Jan. 19 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2024: A whole lot of monkey business is going on at Whole Foods' grand opening at The Shops at Evergreen Walk as PETA supporters draped in chains and wearing monkey masks and prisoner garb dump humanely picked coconuts outside the store to condemn the chain's continued sale of Thai coconut milk, even though it knows that Thailand's coconut industry is driven by the fo  more

STAMFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 19 -- Americares, a health-focused relief and development organization, issued the following news release: Americares, the health-focused relief and development organization, is pleased to announce the election of Jean-Marc Laouchez to its Board of Directors. His three-year term began Jan. 1. A senior partner in the organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry, Laouchez is a member of the firm's Global Leadership Team and leads the Korn Ferry Institute. The Korn Ferry   more

WINDSOR, Connecticut, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- LIMRA issued the following news release: LIMRA's 2024 Distribution Conference will be held February 26-28 in Fernandina Beach, Fla. This year's conference -- themed "Winning Together" -- will focus on major changes in the distribution space and how harnessing these changes can help our industry close the insurance coverage gap. "We know consumers have a great need for insurance products in the U.S. The only way to address this need is together as an in  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 19 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group issued the following news release: Until recent decades, most shopping didn't involve single-use plastic bags. That could be the case again soon. Recently enacted plastic bag bans across the United States, including next door in Connecticut, have proven that people can shop without plastic bags - and benefit their communities by doing so. Plastic Bag Bans Work, a new report released Thursday by MASSPIRG  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners issued the following news release: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has named its 2024 committee chairs and vice chairs. The NAIC also assigned members to its standing committees and named its 2024 task force chairs and vice chairs based on requirements established by the NAIC bylaws. "Through the NAIC's committee structure, state insurance regulators collaborate to set standards and ensure fai  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 18 -- The Orthodox Union, also known as Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, issued the following news release: While many of their peers spent winter break at exotic beaches and ski resorts, 300 Jewish teens from the U.S, Canada and Mexico attended a five-day retreat devoted to Torah study and religious growth run by NCSY, the international youth movement of the Orthodox Union (OU). Aspire: NCSY's Yarchei Kallah is a premier annual Torah learning experience for pu  more

WESTPORT, Connecticut, Jan. 20 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: Stray kittens as well as dogs and cats seeking good homes and found through online ads and Facebook posts have ended up caged and repeatedly bled at a facility that says it supplies blood to locally based PetVet Care Centers, a breaking PETA undercover investigation reveals (https://investigations.peta.org/veterinarians-blood-bank/). The Veterinarians' Blood Bank in Indiana confines   more