OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi, May 15 -- The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium issued the following news release: Each year, members of the Gulf of Mexico Climate and Resilience Community of Practice (COP) give an award recognizing an individual who has done an exemplary job of communicating climate challenges in the Gulf of Mexico. This year, the group named Niki Pace, a research attorney at Louisiana Sea Grant, as the recipient of the Spirit of Community Award. Pace is no stranger to the  more

SANTA MONICA, California, May 14 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following news release: Prices paid to hospitals during 2022 by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services averaged 254 percent of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND report. Some states (Arkansas, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi) had relative prices under 200 percent of Medicare, while other states (California, Florida, Georgia,   more

SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, May 15 -- The National Parks Conservation Association posted the following news release on May 14, 2024: Today, the Minnesota Legislature approved $12 million to fund an invasive carp deterrent system at Lock and Dam 5 on the Mississippi River just upstream of Winona, Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will receive the funding in partnership with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Geological Survey. The funding is an ap  more