SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 1 -- The California Academy of Sciences issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: A gray whale found floating off the coast of Alameda on April 20th likely died due to blunt force trauma from a vessel strike, according to a recent necropsy report conducted by scientists at the California Academy of Sciences and The Marine Mammal Center. The animal's death marks this year's first local cetacean mortality. In a necropsy, or animal autopsy, conducted on S more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 (TNSres) -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement on April 30, 2024: * * * Food & Water Watch Legal Director tapped to advocate for environment, public health on federal Subcommittee * * * On Tuesday the EPA announced invitees for a new Animal Agriculture and Water Quality (AAWQ) Federal Advisory Committee Subcommittee, tasked with studying factory farm water pollution and recommending improvements to the agency's failed Clean Water Act program. Food & Wat more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement on May 1, 2024: * * * Under fire for unreasonable delay, House Republicans and Senate Democrats released Farm Bill priorities today, teeing up lengthy debate on the seminal food and agriculture legislative package that is already months overdue. Early reporting suggests House Republican support for a number of priorities that put Big Ag profits over people, including The EATS Act, which would preempt state regulation more PR

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement on April 30, 2024: * * * Today the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released its final set of regulations to restore the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock environmental law that gives communities the ability to weigh in on federal actions that impact their air, water and public health. The new rule is the second in a two-phase process to reverse a Trump administration rollback that gutted NEP more PR

LAUREL, Maryland, May 1 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Staff members from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, brought more than just eclipse glasses when traveling to view the total solar eclipse on April 8. They packed their own miniature magnetometers as well. Later this year, the team behind NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission will build and freely distribute around 700 ma more PR