HOUSTON, Texas, March 26 [Category: Transportation] -- The American Bureau of Shipping posted the following news release: * * * ABS is Founding Member of New MIT Maritime Consortium (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) ABS, in collaboration with leading players in the maritime industry, has joined an ambitious initiative from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to tackle challenges facing global shipping. The MIT Maritime Consortium unites academia and industry to support the development of cutti  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR-MA Condemns ICE Abduction of Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MA), a chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the abduction of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk by federal immigration authorities. Video provided by neighbors ap  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- The Health and Fitness Association (formerly the International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association) issued the following news release on March 26, 2025: * * * Congress Reintroduces Game-Changing Bill to Lower Healthcare Costs Through Fitness The PHIT Act tackles affordability, allowing Americans to use pre-tax dollars from Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) to cover fitness expenses. Today, a bipartisan group of lawma  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 26 [Category: Energy] -- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, issued the following news release: * * * New Report Shows Growing Momentum for Renewable Energy in NDC 3.0 Submissions A new report by 350.org, produced in collaboration with Zero Carbon Analytics, finds that 15 of the 19 countries that have submitted updated national climate plans, or Nationally Determined Contributions, are incr  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 26 -- The Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group posted the following news release: * * * New report: Injuries from hazardous consumer products hit 8-year high in 2024 BOSTON- Unsafe consumer products led to more injuries in 2024 than in any of the previous seven years. The Consumer Product Safety Commission linked 869 injuries to products recalled during the year, according to Safe At Home in 2025?, a U.S. PIRG Education Fund analysis of Consumer Product Sa  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 [Category: Environment] -- The Union of Concerned Scientists posted the following news release: * * * Trump Voting EO is an Illegal Power Grab that Would Disenfranchise Voters "The 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections' order is a clear attempt to disenfranchise those who do not support Trump," said Liza Gordon-Rogers," a research officer with the Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) Center for Science and Democracy. "If allowed to s  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 27 -- Oxfam America issued the following news release: * * * Yemen faces economic freefall and devastating aid crisis after a decade of conflict - Oxfam A decade after a Saudi-led coalition intervened to restore the internationally recognized government of Yemen to power, the country remains deeply divided, facing economic freefall and a devastating humanitarian crisis, Oxfam said today. Competing financial policies in the North and the South have caused economic  more