HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 4 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: Attorney General William Tong announced today that Connecticut has joined the United States, the District of Columbia, and 42 other States in settling allegations against Precision Toxicology, LLC d/b/a Precision Diagnostics, Inc. ("Precision"). The settlement resolves allegations that Precision knowingly submitted or caused to be submitted false claims to the Medicaid p  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 4 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on Oct. 3, 2024: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement today regarding the announcement by Yankee Gas that it will soon file a request with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for a $209 million rate hike. If granted, ratepayers would see an average increase of roughly 29 percent in their bills. Yankee Gas is owned by Eversource. It provides gas service  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 4 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is developing plans to replace the deteriorated 30" Corrugated Metal Pipe (CMP) in Sprague. The project involves the replacement of a 30" Reinforced Concrete Pipe that was installed by CTDOT forces as a temporary fix after a storm event washed out the existing deteriorated 30" Corrugated Metal Pipe (CMP) that crosses under Route 13  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Oct. 4 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is developing plans to systematically replace and upgrade all existing pedestrian and school crossing signs and associated subplates, at uncontrolled intersections and midblock crosswalk locations and refresh associated pavement markings (crosswalk, yield lines) in Eastern Connecticut. From 2018 to 2022, 15% of all serious injury   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey New England Water Science Center issued the following report (No. 2024-5090) on Sept. 26, 2024, entitled "Simulated Mean Monthly Groundwater-Transported Nitrogen Loads in Watersheds on the North Shore of Long Island Sound, 1993-2022". The report was written by Janet R. Barclay, Madeleine J. Holland and John R. Mullaney. * * * Elevated nitrogen loads are pervasive in the Long Island Sound, an estuary that recei  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 4 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, defended a federal effort to expand health insurance access to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Established in 2012, DACA enables certain young people, commonly referred to as Dreamers, who came to the United States as children and have lived in America continuously since 2007, to avoid immed  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 15 attorneys general in support of a Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) rule requiring that freight and passenger trains generally be staffed with at least two crew members. Raoul and the coalition explain in their brief (https://ilag-dev.dotcms.cloud/dA/bc73637d-4d8a-4058-99e5-ef260d2bda26/fileAsset/Filed%20Brief%2010.24.pdf) that re  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This year, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center hosted 18 students from 12 states and 18 different colleges and universities. Project topic areas ranged from climate change, offshore wind, and microplastics, to fish and fisheries, aquaculture, and protected species. Some projects involved technologies and techniques such as passive acoustics, photography, biodeposition, mass spectrometry, and   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: On September 18, 2024, the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence kicked off the first of the three-part thought leadership series: Making Good on the Potential of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (https://www.volpe.dot.gov/project-delivery-center-excellence/making-good-potential-bipartisan-infrastructure-law). Remar  more