WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release: VERNON, Vt., Oct. 28, 2024 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced the launch of the Organic Dairy Product Promotion (ODPP) program, allocating $15 million to expand access to organic dairy products in educational institutions and youth programs. The initiative was announced today by USDA Under Secretary for Marke  more

OAKLAND, California, Oct. 29 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: Ahead of the Tuesday, November 5, 2024 General Election, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a bulletin summarizing California laws that apply when voters entrust their ballots to another person for delivery to elections officials, as well as rules that apply to unofficial ballot collection containers. Active registered voters can track their ballots by signin  more

OAKLAND, California, Oct. 29 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief pushing back on an effort to undermine civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ Americans in the workplace. The case, McMahon v. World Vision, Inc., arose when World Vision, Inc. rescinded a job offer to Aubry McMahon upon discovering that she was in a same-sex marriage. In to  more

SAN BERNARDINO, California, Oct. 29 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: Continuing the state's ongoing efforts to support local hot spots throughout California to address crime and enhance public safety, Governor Newsom today announced a new CHP operation with the city of San Bernardino. The operation will place additional CHP personnel in the city to help clamp down on property theft and violent crime, including gun violence. "We are sending  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 29 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on Oct. 28, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a proposal to expand California's Film & Television Tax Credit Program to $750 million annually, a massive increase from the current $330 million annual allocation. This ambitious expansion would position California as the top state for capped film incentive programs, surpassing other states like New York. "California is the entertainment  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Oct. 29 -- The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders issued the following news on Oct. 28, 2024: On Tuesday, December 3, in a hybrid lecture open to NIH staff, researchers, and the public, Meghan Lane-Fall, M.D., M.S.H.P., Executive Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE) at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a talk titled "Making Sense of Dissemination and Implementation Research: Opport  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Researchers at NETL and the University of California San Diego have completed a series of studies that found hydrogen -- a low-carbon fuel with tremendous potential to help the United States meet its climate change goals -- can be stored in the subsurface without significantly altering the layer of protective shale caprock, which seals the storage reservoir and p  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art issued the following news release: * * * The Regents Also Reappointed Six Trustees for Second Terms in 2024 * * * The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art has announced its newest board members: Secretary Elaine Chao, the 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor and 18th U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and Ruchi Bhowmik, Vice President of Public Policy at Netflix, one of the world's leading entertainment services with operations  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: The data collection will be conducted through the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), a partnership between the USGS and state geological surveys that is revolutionizing our understanding of the nation's geology and domestic mineral resources, both in the ground and in mine waste. Since 2021, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) has advanced scientific inn  more