ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, May 31 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Army Environmental Command issued the following news: By Thomas Milligan With more than 70 research laboratories dedicated to researching, empowering, and enabling Soldiers and everything they eat, wear and carry, U.S. Army Garrison Natick and the Natick Soldier Systems Center mission partners face a variety of environmental support issues. The breadth of research at the installation and NSSC include Climatic Chambers, a hypobaric  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: As the lead federal agency for the development of workplace safety and environmental compliance strategies for offshore conventional and renewable energy projects on the federal Outer Continental Shelf, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today conducted the first-ever Government Initiated Unannounced Exercise (GIUE)   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 31 (TNSres) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: * * * An international team of astronomers, including CfA scientists, used JWST to find a record-breaking galaxy observed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. * * * An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 31 (TNSres) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: Air pollution data on a neighborhood scale are now available in near real-time from the TEMPO instrument (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution). The mission gathers hourly daytime scans of the atmosphere over North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Coast and from roughly Mexico City to central Canada. The primary instrument on TEMPO, a collabor  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced that more than $691,000 in grants have been awarded to nine municipalities, three non-profit community groups, and two private organizations as part of the Marine Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act (MOSPRA) Grant Program. The MOSPRA Program, administered by Massachusetts Department of Environmental Prot  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release: * * * Various Deadlines Postponed to July 31 * * * The Internal Revenue Service announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses in parts of Massachusetts affected by severe storms and flooding that began on Sept. 11, 2023. These taxpayers now have until July 31, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make payments. The IRS is offer  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * Expected To Create Jobs, Housing * * * Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has entered into an agreement that will allow for the environmental remediation and redevelopment of a contaminated property in Everett formerly owned by Exxon Mobil at 52 Beachman Street, 51 Robin Street, 0 South Tank Farm Road and 211 Wharf Area. The renovation of this 100-acre property is ex  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The Massachusetts Auditor issued the following audit report (No. 2022-0027-3S) on May 29, 2024, entitled "Audit of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance." Here are excerpts: * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...1 OVERVIEW OF AUDITED ENTITY...3 AUDIT OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY...6 DETAILED AUDIT FINDINGS WITH AUDITEE'S RESPONSE...10 1. The Executive Office for Administration and Finance's Federal Funds Office could not ensure t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Lawrence was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Fraily Rodriguez Morillo, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 46 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release. In February 2024, Morillo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: Massachusetts doctor has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by soliciting and receiving free products from DePuy Synthes, Inc. and DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc. (collectively "DePuy"), in return for ordering DePuy products for use in his procedures. Doctor used these free products in surge  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Mashpee man has been charged, and has agreed to plead guilty, in connection with a scheme to artificially inflate the trading price of Getty Images Holdings, Inc. and attempting to cover up the alleged scheme. Robert Scott Murray, 60, has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty to one count of securities fraud. He will appear in federal court in Boston at   more

LANSING, Michigan, May 31 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general calling on the U.S. Department of Education (Department) to swiftly implement recently proposed regulations, which would provide needed relief for some of the nation's most burdened student loan borrowers and help address the student debt crisis. The proposed regulations would waive or reduce student loan repayment  more