NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 27 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Projects and programs that help improve the environment are getting a boost from Entergy. Through the company's Environmental Initiatives Fund, Entergy's shareholders contributed $1 million in grants to environmental partners with projects in five states, including eight in Mississippi. The fund supports projects or programs that hrough the company's Environmental Initiatives Fund, Entergy's shareholders contributed  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 25 -- Entergy issued the following news release: Each morning, utility lineworkers wake up and go to work to keep homes, businesses and communities across Southeast Texas powered. Whether it's getting the lights back on following a hurricane, responding to an outage in the middle of the night or providing reliability upgrades for our customers, Entergy Texas lineworkers are on the front lines of keeping the lights on for our customers. To ensure that the next gener  more

NISKAYUNA, NEW YORK, Feb. 27 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on Feb. 26: GE announced the successful completion of the first battery energy storage assisted black start of a GE 7F.03 gas turbine at the 150 megawatt (MW) simple cycle unit at Entergy Louisiana's Perryville Power Station. This is the first time GE has achieved a black start of a GE heavy-duty gas turbine using energy storage. A "black   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 27 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards called on 23rd Judicial Judge Jessie LeBlanc to resign after she admitted to using racial slurs in reference to an Ascension parish deputy and a court employee. Gov. Edwards said: "The admitted and repeated use of racial slurs by a judge who has taken an oath to administer justice fairly and impartially is wrong, period. There is never any circumstance or context in which su  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 28 -- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued the following news release: Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that Louisiana has joined a bipartisan, multistate investigation of JUUL Labs. The 39-state coalition is investigating JUUL's marketing and sales practices - including targeting of youth; claims regarding nicotine content; and statements regarding risks, safety, and effectiveness as a smoking cessation device. "As a father, I am deeply troubled by   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 25 -- The Louisiana Public Service Commission issued the following order (No. T-35465) involving A Quality Bus Co.: In re: Cancellation of Registration & Insurance Permit Number 1548 for failure to maintain the required insurance coverage on file with the Commission pursuant to Commission's General Orders dated January 12, 1976 & April 21, 1999. ORDER OF DISMISSAL The Louisiana Public Service Commission ("Commission") issued a citation to A Quality Bus Company, LL  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 25 -- The Louisiana Public Service Commission issued the following order (No. T-35470) involving HJ Doles Wrecker Service: In re: Cancellation of Common Carrier Certificate Number 8230 for failure to maintain the required insurance coverage on file with the Commission pursuant to Commission's General Order dated January 12, 1976. ORDER OF DISMISSAL The Louisiana Public Service Commission ("Commission") issued a citation to HJ Doles Wrecker Service, LLC of Bastrop,  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 25 -- The Louisiana Public Service Commission issued the following order (No. T-35471) involving Holden's Wrecker Service: In re: Cancellation of Common Carrier Certificate Number 6350 for failure to maintain the required insurance coverage on file with the Commission pursuant to Commission's General Order dated January 12, 1976. ORDER OF DISMISSAL The Louisiana Public Service Commission ("Commission") issued a citation to Holden's Wrecker Service, Inc. of Covingt  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 25 -- The Louisiana Public Service Commission issued the following order (No. T-35468) involving National Tank & Equipment: In re: Cancellation of Common Carrier Certificate Number 8167 for failure to maintain the required insurance coverage on file with the Commission pursuant to Commission's General Order dated January 12, 1976. ORDER OF DISMISSAL The Louisiana Public Service Commission ("Commission") issued a citation to National Tank & Equipment, LLC of Austin  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 28 [TNSgrants] -- The Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center issued the following news: Thanks to generous support by the Kendall Vick Public Law Foundation, the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center has established a Loan Repayment Assistance Program to encourage its recent graduates to practice in public service positions in Louisiana. The goal of the program is to help remove the barriers to public interest practice faced by recent graduates who have incur  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 29 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU School of Veterinary Medicine (LSU SVM) researchers, as part of the LSU-Tulane Center for Experimental Infectious Disease Research, are performing significant research on coronaviruses with the goal of producing a vaccine for testing that could soon be used for prevention of human cases of the virus. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that exist in both humans and animals, producing sy  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 29 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU Board of Supervisors is announcing its intent to engage the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, or AGB, to conduct a study of the administrative structure of LSU. In 2012, the LSU Board engaged AGB to conduct a study on the administrative structure of the LSU system. Subsequently, the Board of Supervisors decided to unify the system presidency with the chancellorsh  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 28 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication professor Leonard Apcar is relaunching a website designed to aggregate news, analysis and research about fake news and disinformation for students, academics and citizens to defend themselves against misinformation. The website, www.detectfakenews.com, is a curated resource guide on the latest developments in fake news, disinformation and foreign interfere  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 28 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: The LSU Foundation Board of Directors has named LSU alumnus Robert M. Stuart Jr. president and CEO of the LSU Foundation. Stuart has served as interim president and CEO since Jan. 1, 2020, following J. Bryan Benchoff's Dec. 31, 2019, retirement. Stuart's extensive volunteer experience with LSU includes current service as the first chairperson of the LSU Foundation National Board; chairman of the LS  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, Feb. 29 -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Construction Engineering Technology program chair and professional in residence, Reginald Jeter, has been awarded the Engineering Faculty Professionalism award by the Louisiana Engineering Foundation. The purpose of the Engineering Faculty Professionalism Award is to highlight enthusiastic professional engineers who are among faculty at universities in Louisiana. The goal of the annual award is to encourage othe  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 27 -- The New York University School of Law issued the following news: In early March, when the US Supreme Court hears a high-profile case that tests the extent to which abortion providers can argue for the reproductive rights of women who receive abortions, the justices will be listening to arguments crafted by Travis "TJ" Tu '03, senior counsel for US litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights. In June Medical Services v. Russo, Tu and co-lead counsel Julie Rikelman, li  more

THIBODAUX, Louisiana, Feb. 28 -- Nicholls State University issued the following news release: Nicholls State University will celebrate Women's History Month with the 2020 Bonnie Bourg Lecture Series and Women's History Month Luncheon on Thursday, March 5. Tina DeSalvo Callais (BA '81) will be the featured speaker for the lecture series. Her presentation, "Nothing is Off Limits," is at 10:30 a.m. in the LeBijou Theatre. The talk is free and open to the public. A 1982 inductee into the Nichol  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 29 -- S&P Global Platts, a subsidiary of S&P Global, issued the following news: Australia's LNG Limited urged shareholders Friday to accept a buyout offer from a Singaporean investor with ties to floating regasification facilities in Asia and Europe in a bid to save its Magnolia LNG export project in Louisiana. The deal, which values the company at $75 million (A$114 million), follows the developer's warning January 31 that it must immediately raise new sources of cash to   more

HAMMOND, Louisiana, Feb. 28 -- Southeastern Louisiana University issued the following news release: Author and Southeastern Louisiana University Assistant Professor of English David Armand will be the featured speaker at the ninth annual Friends of Sims Library Marjorie Morrison Memorial Members' Tea on Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. in Sims Memorial Library. Sims Library Director Eric Johnson said guests will enjoy a variety of teas and a selection of delectable sandwiches and pastries. Unlimi  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 27 -- Tulane University issued the following news release: The Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) has expanded its laboratory capacity by 10,000 square feet with a $6 million renovation of its former surgical facility. The university-funded renovation will accommodate up to seven new investigators with four state-of-the-art biosafety level-2 laboratories. The largest among them is a 2,000-square-foot lab that will provide open, shared space for several   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Feb. 29 -- The University of New Orleans issued the following news release: The University of New Orleans and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) have signed an agreement that will allow NOCCA students to earn up to 30 credit hours applicable to their degree program at UNO. The agreement applies to first-time freshmen and transfer students from NOCCA whose initial admission to UNO is for the fall 2020 semester or after. Administrators from both institutions  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 25 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: With a population of roughly 150 million people, the delta country of Bangladesh holds about half the population of the entire United States in an area the size of Louisiana, and exists under a near-constant risk of sea level rise and other dynamic climate changes. Now, as the world faces a future chock-full of increasing environmental transformation, an international, transdisciplinary team of academic researche  more