ROCK ISLAND, Illinois, March 14 -- Augustana College issued the following news: * * * Students map their skills to solve coastal, human problems The term "environmental justice" seems less abstract when you're talking with people whose coastal homeland is eroding away in front of their eyes. Or to those displaced from the Cancer Alley area of petrochemical plants in Louisiana. And of course, there is the nearby dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi River, where it empties into the Gulf o  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: * * * Klobuchar, Smith Urge Administration Not to Cancel Leases for Several National Park Service Buildings WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tina Smith (D-MN) urged Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Stephen Ehikian not to cancel leases for several National Park Service buildings. GSA's proposed lease cancellations incl  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 11 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * LSU Celebrates Six Rainmakers BATON ROUGE, La - Six LSU faculty members have been selected as Rainmakers by the LSU Council on Research based on their outstanding scholarship and creative activity within their respective ranks and disciplines. The Rainmaker awards recognize sustained work with high impact, often in alignment with LSU's Scholarship First Agenda to improve lives in Louisiana   more

JACKSON, Mississippi, March 14 -- Gov. Tate Reeves, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund Board Approves 28 More Projects JACKSON, Miss. - Governor Tate Reeves announced that during its most recent public meeting, the Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund (MOSTF) Board of Trustees awarded a new round of competitive grants. These projects, totaling more than $13.4M for 28 conservation and outdoor recreation projects, are located  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news on March 12, 2025: * * * NRCS seeks new priority watersheds for two initiatives USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Indiana announced it is accepting proposals to designate new priority watersheds for two separate initiatives, including the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) and National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI), throu  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 13 -- The Environmental Law and Policy Center issued the following news release on March 11, 2025: * * * Top Obama Administration Water Official Joins ELPC "Nancy Stoner comes to ELPC as one of the top Clean Water Act legal and policy experts in the country" Chicago - Nancy Stoner joined the Environmental Law & Policy Center today as a Senior Attorney focusing on the Clean Water program in our Washington, D.C., office. Nancy's career has been devoted to protecting cl  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Tina Flint Smith, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Senator Tina Smith Helps Introduce Legislation to Restore National Park and Forest Service Staffing, Protect Public Lands WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) helped introduce two bills to address the consequences of recent federal staff cuts at the National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The Protect Our Parks Act of 2025 and the Save Our Forests Act of 2025  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 15 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: * * * UA Little Rock Economist Awarded Nearly $750K NSF Grant to Study Water Use in Agriculture Dr. Kent Kovacs, an associate professor of accounting, economics, and finance at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has received a nearly $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies, and Education (RISE) to study how farmers' risk preferences impact   more