HANOVER, New Hampshire, Aug. 7 (TNSres) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * The service learning course will match students with climate resilience efforts. * * * The Climate Futures Initiative--a year-long effort aimed at exploring how Dartmouth can best use its institutional strengths to support research and experiential learning around climate change--has announced its first pilot project: an undergraduate course that will partner students with local community organizati  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Hartford, CT Today, members of the Connecticut Congressional Delegation and Governor Ned Lamont applauded the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) announcement(link is external) selecting the Power Up New England proposal submitted by Connecticut and its neighboring New England states to receive an award of up to $389 million through the second round of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's competitive Grid   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 7 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2024: Governor Ned Lamont is applauding the announcement made today by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that it has selected the Power Up New England proposal submitted by Connecticut and its neighboring New England states to receive an award of up to $389 million through the second round of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's competitive Grid Innovation Program (GIP). Power Up feat  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 7 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Aug. 6, 2024: * * * Affordable Homes Act to build or save 65,000 homes through $5.1 billion in authorizations and 49 policy initiatives * * * Governor Maura Healey today signed into law the most ambitious legislation in Massachusetts history to tackle the state's greatest challenge - housing costs. The Affordable Homes Act and related initiatives will support the production, preservation  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Aug. 7 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news on Aug. 6, 2024: * * * The innovative multi-day energy storage project wins substantial Federal funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as part of New England states' regional grant application to strengthen and modernize the regional electric grid * * * Governor Janet Mills, U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTON A Lynn man was sentenced today in federal court for his role in a North Shore-based drug trafficking organization that distributed tens of thousands of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. Nelson Mora, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 44 months in prison, fol  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Plymouth woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for submitting fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications on behalf of herself and her father fraud and money laundering. Katherine Reynolds, 65, was indicted on two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Reynolds will be arraigned in federal court on Aug. 8  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts convicted an unlawfully present Mexican noncitizen July 9 of illegal re-entry into the United States following his arrest by Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston. Deportation officers from ERO Boston apprehended Rulaman Lopez-Nolasco, 42, a Mexican national near his residence in Lynn January   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: **Shaheen secured a total of $100,404,000 in direct investments for the Granite State in twelve Committee-passed government funding bills** Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and Chair of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, highlighted the numerous priorities she championed and secured in the   more