WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: BROOKFIELD, CT. Compressor stations maintain the flow and pressure of fracked gas transported in pipelines. Due to serious health and safety risks, experts recommend compressors stay at least 1.8 miles away from occupied buildings. A new report by Thimble Creek Research and Eco Essential Solutions, prepared for Sierra Club Connecticut, reveals the dangers posed by the proposed expansion of a compres  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 6 -- The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists issued the following news release: AAPS is excited to announce that former president Diane J. Burgess, Ph.D., FAAPS, Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutics, University of Connecticut, was selected as the 2024 David J. W. Grant NIPTE Distinguished Scholar in Basic Pharmaceutics by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE). The David J. W. Grant NIPTE Distinguished Scholar Awar  more

WESTPORT, Connecticut, Aug. 7 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release: [Category: Sociological] DELHI, (August 7, 2024) A series of massive landslides in the hills of India's southwestern Kerala state have killed more than 385 people,[1] including children, in the past week and forced at least 1,580 children from their homes as hopes of finding survivors fade,  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 9 -- Reproductive Equity Now, an organization that says it advances reproductive justice and eliminates barriers to safe and legal abortion care, issued the following news release: * * * This slate marks Repro Equity Now's first endorsements in Connecticut since the organization expanded into the Nutmeg State in September * * * HARTFORD (August 8, 2024) - Two years since the Dobbs decision decimated the national right to abortion access, and on the precipice of on  more