MIAMI BEACH, Florida, March 13 -- The Aspen Institute issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: Today, EPPIC announced the launch of a prize competition to promote global efforts to advance plastic circularity with an emphasis on innovations in design, production, and recycling. The prize will be developed and launched through EPPIC, being led by the Aspen Institute Energy & Environment Program, an organization of the EPPIC Host Consortium. EPPIC was created in 2023 as a public-priv  more

BOCA RATON, Florida, March 13 -- The Futures Industry Association issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: FIA today announced the election of three new directors at its annual meeting in Boca Raton, Florida. * Susan Gaughan, Societe Generale * Nelson Neale, CHS Hedging LLC * Harris L. Kay, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Susan Gaughan is a managing director at Societe Generale and branch manager for SG Americas Securities in Chicago. She is also a principal of the bank's futures comm  more

LAKE MARY, Florida, March 12 (TNSres) -- The Institute of Internal Auditors issued the following news release on March 11, 2024: The results of The 2024 North American Pulse of Internal Audit Survey released today by the Internal Audit Foundation, find a growing profession, with Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) more than twice as likely to have increased staff (26%) than to have decreased staff (9%). Additionally, after sharp cuts due to the COVID pandemic in 2020 and 2021, significantly more inte  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 13 (TNSres) -- The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund issued the following news release: The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund today released its 2024 Florida Hispanic Voter Profile, offering a comprehensive analysis of the Hispanic electorate in Florida. The profile examines several political factors shaping the state's Hispanic vote prior to the Florida Presidentia  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, March 13 -- The Poynter Institute issued the following news release: The International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter announced in June that 35 projects from around the world won grants from the initial BUILD round of the IFCN's Global Fact Check Fund. As part of its overall first-year project review, the IFCN is now detailing the winning projects. The IFCN conducted three rounds of grant-giving in the first year of the fund: BUILD, GROW and ENGAGE. The BUILD winners  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, March 13 -- Tall Timbers, an advocate to protect the right to use prescribed fire for land management, issued the following article on March 12, 2024: The story of wild quail in the Delmarva Peninsula, a spit of land bordered by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, is a common one in areas where the bird was once prevalent. People remember the distinctive "bob white" call throughout the agricultural field-dominated landscape in the 1980s and 90s followed by a downturn i  more

ORLANDO, Florida, March 13 -- The Water Quality Association issued the following news release on March 12, 2024: The Water Quality Association honored 15 individuals and two member companies March 5 with its annual Leadership and Excellence Awards. President Amanda Moore, CWS, announced the recipients during the Keynote Session on the opening day of the WQA Convention & Exposition. The 2024 Hall of Fame award - the highest honor bestowed on a WQA member, given for lifetime dedication and serv  more