SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 2 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Three Syracuse University faculty members have been awarded prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowships to teach and conduct research abroad. The awardees are: Harriet Brown, professor and director of the graduate program in magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse School of Public Communications Robin McCrary, assistant teaching professor of writing studies, rhetoric and composition in the College o  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Aug. 3 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2024: * * * State regulators OK doubling plant's pollution limits, violating the Clean Air Act * * * ATLANTA-- Today the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), on behalf of Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL) and Sierra Club, is challenging a move by Georgia regulators to allow a biomass wood pellet plant to double its pollution limits without complying with Clean   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Miller (R-WV) and Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on how President Biden's policies have harmed economic opportunity and energy production in Appalachia. Washington Examiner: Biden's war on Appalachia(link is external) "After years of progress made under former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden has devastated economic growth and e  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 3 -- The Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 39, Issue 8): * Outstanding Reviewers for Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry in 2023 * Label free, machine learning informed plasma-based elemental biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease *  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, secured a number of West Virginia priorities in the markup of four bipartisan appropriations bills, which included the Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Services and General Government; Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Defense; and Energy & Water Development funding bills. The Senate Appropriations Committ  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) today voted in favor of S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act, during a markup held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The panel reported the legislation, which reflects a bipartisan agreement between Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY), by a vote of 15-4. "Anyone who has been within a thousand miles of the federal permitting proc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Secretary Haaland this week announced major milestones for the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, which she launched in June 2021 as the first-ever comprehensive effort by the federal government to recognize the troubled legacy of past federal Indian boarding school policies. The Department released the second and final volume of the investigative report led by Assistant Secretary for Indian Aff  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 -- White and Case, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised a consortium of lenders consisting of Ceska sporitelna, a.s., Raiffeisenbank a.s. and UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s. on the up to CZK 150 million and Euros123 million financing and refinancing of capital expenditures and acquisition costs for C-energy, a Czech multi-source electricity and heat producer. "Our Prague team has once again advised on the   more