ALISO VIEJO, California, April 19 -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses issued the following news release: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) will present Danielle McCamey, DNP, CRNP, ACNP-BC, FCCP, with its AACN Pioneering Spirit Award. The AACN Pioneering Spirit Award, one of AACN's Visionary Leadership awards, recognizes significant contributions that influence progressive and critical care nursing and relate to the association's mission, vision and values  more

ALISO VIEJO, California, April 19 -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses issued the following news release: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) will present Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAHA, FNAP, FAAN, with its AACN Pioneering Spirit Award. The AACN Pioneering Spirit Award, one of AACN's Visionary Leadership awards, recognizes significant contributions that influence progressive and critical care nursing and relate to the association's mission  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- The American Foundation for the Blind issued the following news release: The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) celebrated this evening the achievements of those champions for inclusion in media and the arts during its annual Helen Keller Achievement Awards held at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles. The evening's honorees - filmmaker Shawn Levy, actor and advocate Marilee Talkington, and Disney's Lucasfilm - were recognized f  more

CARLSBAD, California, April 18 -- The Association of National Advertisers issued the following news release: A campaign for eBay called "Twiggy Full Circle" has won the top prize at last night's 41st annual ANA REGGIE Awards Gala held at the 2024 ANA Brand Masters Conference. The REGGIE Awards recognize the best brand, media, and brand activation marketing campaigns of the prior year. Winning organizations must prove their work built brand image while driving specific consumer actions. The Sup  more

COTATI, California, April 19 -- The Animal Legal Defense Fund issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: On March 27, 2024, a Snohomish County Superior Court judge sentenced a resident following a criminal prosecution by Attorney General Bob Ferguson's office. The resident was sentenced to three years of community custody for mental health treatment. If he violates the terms of community custody, the court may send him to prison for three years and four months. The lead prosecutor on  more

ALISO VIEJO, California, April 19 -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses issued the following news release: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) honors Connie Barden, MSN, RN, CCRN, FAAN, with its 2024 Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career. Barden receives the award for her leadership and exceptional contributions, which enhance the care of critically ill patients and their families and the nurses who care for them, and further AACN's missio  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 -- The California Academy of Sciences issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that Curator of Geology Peter Roopnarine, PhD, and Morrison Planetarium Senior Director Ryan Wyatt have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS [https://www.aaas.org/fellows]). This honor recognizes Roopnarine and Wyatt's achievements across disciplines, ranging fr  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 19 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release: Working families, retirees, disabled individuals and millions of others living in apartments or small homes in the state will face steeper monthly electricity bills if a proposed utility tax takes effect, consumer advocates warned on a webinar. During the April 16 virtual press event, leaders from a coalition of more than 250 statewide and national organizations urged state lawmakers to back   more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: After prioritizing extractive industries for the past 40 years, today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its final "Public Lands Rule" to balance and uphold its multiple-use mission. The Biden administration's new framework places cultural lands protection, conservation, access to nature, wildlife, and climate change mitigation on equal footing with industrial development across t  more

OAKLAND, California, April 19 -- The California Nurses Association issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: On Monday, April 22, hundreds of registered nurses and members of California Nurses Association (CNA) from across the state will hold a protest at Kaiser Permanente (KP)'s San Francisco Medical Center to highlight their patient safety concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the hospital industry's rush to implement untested and unregulated AI. "It is deeply  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 18 [Category: Chemicals] -- The American Chemistry Council issued the following news release: "The State Water Resources Control Board's (SWRCB) maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 parts per billion (ppb) for hexavalent chromium was not developed in the manner intended, and required, by the California Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). Among the fundamental requirements of the SDWA is that a drinking water standard be adopted through a transparent, multi-step process t  more

SAN JOSE, California, April 19 -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Defenders of Wildlife, the Desert Tortoise Council and the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee applaud the California Fish and Game Commission's unanimous 4-0 decision today to list the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). "The Commission's decision that uplisting is warranted accurately reflects the dire status of our state reptile  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Republican attorneys general from 23 states filed a petition for rulemaking with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding the agency weaken regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, attacking one of the country's most important environmental justice tools. Title VI prohibits federal fund recipients from discriminating based on race, color, or national origin. Residents can petitio  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, April 19 (TNSres) -- The Environment California Research and Policy Center issued the following news release: For decades, consumers have found it difficult to avoid plastic packaging, despite the rising toll of plastic pollution on our health, wildlife and environment. Now, a new wave of businesses is successfully eliminating single-use plastic packaging via refill stores, returnable packaging and product innovations. Leading up to Earth Day, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Envir  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Gulf and national environmental groups praised members of Congress who sent a letter today calling on the Department of Interior to end its routine practice of rubber-stamping offshore oil drilling projects by skipping over meaningful environmental reviews. The members, Representatives Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), and Jared Huffman (  more

SALEM, Oregon, April 19 -- The Oregon School Boards Association issued the following news: The Coalition of Oregon School Administrators has awarded Jerome "Jerry" Colonna its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award. Colonna is the award's first recipient, and it will be named the COSA Jerome Colonna Lifetime Achievement Award. Colonna is a former superintendent of the Redmond and Beaverton school districts and a former member of the Oregon State Board of Education. He was named the 2001 Oregon Supe  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary to The Boston Globe on April 18, 2024: * * * This commentary originally appeared on The Boston Globe on April 10, 2024. * * * Why Won't Health Insurance Companies Pay for New Drugs? By Zachary Predmore On January 6, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for a new treatment for Alzheimer's: Leqembi, a drug that may slow the disease's progression. And yet mere hours after its ap  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on April 17, 2024: * * * In the Congo: Applying Research to Issues of Poverty and Servitude By Marie Jones The Congo faces a series of seemingly intractable issues that have left much of its population in poverty and servitude to multinational mining interests, but international engagement and research could help. A complex and protracted crisis marked by political instability, armed conflict, human rights a  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on April 17, 2024: * * * What Could Liquid Biopsy Do for Oncology in the UK and What Is Needed to Realise Its Potential? By Mark Cabling and Sonja Marjanovic Cancer is a major global health burden causing 10 million deaths in 2020. In the UK, there are nearly 375,000 new cancer cases per year, almost half caught only at later stages, and only a 50 percent 10-year survival rate. The ability to detect and diagn  more

ALISO VIEJO, California, April 19 -- The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses issued the following news release: The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) will present Ruth Kleinpell, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, FAANP, MCCM, with its AACN Pioneering Spirit Award. The AACN Pioneering Spirit Award, one of AACN's Visionary Leadership awards, recognizes significant contributions that influence progressive and critical care nursing and relate to the association's mission, vision and v  more

MILPITAS, California, April 18 (TNSres) -- SEMI, an association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the electronics industry, issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: The SEMI Foundation, the arm of SEMI dedicated to supporting economic opportunity for workers and the sustained growth of the microelectronics industry by creating pathways and opportunities for job seekers, today applauded strides made by the CHIPS Program Office to diversify the U.S. semiconductor industry wor  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 19 -- The State Bar of Wisconsin issued the following news on April 18, 2024: A business lawyer from California, a journalist turned lawyer, a lawyer representing the third generation of lawyers in her family, and the first lawyer in her family. These describe some of Wisconsin's newest lawyers, taking the final steps after passing the bar exam - becoming Wisconsin lawyers in a ceremony before the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 16, 2023, taking the Attorney's Oath a  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 -- The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation issued the following news on April 18, 2024: The ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Fest returns for a second year to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts from May 14-21. This year's Fest, which is geared to aspiring musical theatre writers, will focus on music for film and TV animation, and features award-winning composers and top executives from film and TV animation studios.  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The Universities Space Research Association issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Universities Space Research Association today announced a strategic collaboration involving the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley to launch a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) lab for science and engineering. The lab will explore the short- and long-term benefits of new GenAI technologies related to Earth sci  more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 19 (TNSres) -- The Williams Institute issued the following news release: A new report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds that same-sex couples are at greater risk of experiencing the adverse effects of climate change compared to different-sex couples. LGBT people in same-sex couple households disproportionately live in coastal areas and cities and areas with poorer infrastructure and less access to resources, making them more vulnerable to clima  more