SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, April 17 (TNSPol) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on April 16, 2021: The Illinois Pollution Control Board's finalization of coal ash regulations makes significant strides to rectify coal's toxic footprint in Illinois. The rules create a comprehensive framework for the detection and clean up of coal ash contamination of groundwater -- the first in the state's history to specifically address this pollution. Not only do the new rules create a new precedent   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies issued the following testimony by Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra as part of a virtual hearing on the agency's budget request for fiscal 2022 on April 15, 2021: * * * Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the President's fiscal year (FY) 2022 discretionary budget request for the Department of (HHS). I am pleased to appear before you for the fir  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, April 17 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter issued the following news release on April 16, 2021: Attorney General Mike Hunter today sharply rebuked Pres. Joe Biden's Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for its attempted takeover of regulating coal mining and reclamation activities on land in Oklahoma subject to the McGirt decision. The response comes after the agency's deputy director, Glenda Owens, sent letters to the Okla  more

OSHAWA, Ontario, April 17 (TNSRes) -- The Ontario Tech University issued the following news release: A half-century after Ontario's first large-scale nuclear power station in Pickering started delivering electricity to the provincial grid (July 1971), two generations of Ontarians have become accustomed to receiving cheap electricity from our home-grown CANDU reactors. Much of Ontario's original nuclear infrastructure continues to supply the grid with reliable energy produced with the lowest ca  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Lara M. Pierpoint, director of climate at Actuate, at a hearing on energy innovation and economic competitiveness on April 15, 2021: * * * Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today regarding the Department of Energy and its crucial role in advancing American innovation and competitiveness. I have devoted my career to energy and climate technology innovation and infrastructur  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 17 (TNSRes) -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release: As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they'd developed years ago for Alzhei  more