WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (TNSRes) -- The Beer Institute issued the following news release: According to the University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future survey of adolescent alcohol, drug, and tobacco use--funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health--teen alcohol use has reached historic lows. The survey (https://news.umich.edu/teen-use-of-illicit-drugs-decreased-in-2021-as-the-covid-19-pandemic-continued/) found, "In 2021, the proportion who had ever more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (TNSPol) -- The Center for American Progress issued the following statement on Dec. 16, 2021: * * * Seven years after the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, the White House announced a major new national goal and action plan to remove toxic lead from pipes and paint from peoples' homes, residential buildings, schools, and child care centers across the country within the next decade. This whole-of-government approach for lead removal and remediation will mobilize a  more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, Dec. 16 (TNSRep) -- The Detroit Regional Chamber issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2021: The Detroit Regional Chamber released findings from a new statewide poll of registered voters in Michigan. The survey provides insight and data on Michiganders' perceptions of the economy, how inflation has impacted their assessment, ongoing challenges with COVID-19, vaccination, voting rights, and the political landscape going into the 2022 midterms. "Two years into the glob more PR

FLINT, Michigan, Dec. 17 (TNSPol) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2021: Residents of Genesee County filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over the local approval of a polluting hot-mix asphalt plant. The complaint said that Genesee Township's approval of the Ajax asphalt plant violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act, and the Housing and Community Development Act, as it is part of a pattern o more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 14 (TNSOps) -- The Michigan Nurses Association issued the following news release: Sparrow Hospital nurses and healthcare professionals overwhelmingly voted to ratify their new 3-year contract. The agreement will go into effect immediately. PECSH-MNA represents approximately 2,200 caregivers at Sparrow Hospital across 53 different classifications including nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory scientists. "We are so proud of what we have accomplished for our patients and o more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 14 (TNSPol) -- The National Wildlife Federation issued the following news release: The governors of eight Great Lakes states sent a letter Friday to Congress requesting full federal funding for the Brandon Road Lock and Dam project to help keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 17 (TNSPol) -- The National Wildlife Federation issued the following news release: A new proposed regulation from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will help protect people, wildlife, and waterways from the threat of outdated and dangerous pipelines, like Line 5. "This is a critical step and we thank Senator Peters for authoring this and PHMSA for ensuring this rule moves forward in an expedited way," said B more PR

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Dec. 16 (TNSOps) -- The Progressive Democrats of America issued the following news release: Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is calling for a boycott of Kellogg's cereal products in solidarity with 1,400 striking workers at four Kellogg's plants across the country. We are directing PDA's hundreds of thousands of supporters and activists across the country to abstain from buying Kellogg's cereal products until the strike ends with the consent of the workers and thei more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 16 (TNSJou) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news: Polarization is dangerous for democracy. Though the U.S. Constitution was designed to harness rivalry with a diverse, redundant, and modular set of institutions, if that rivalry curdles into the belief that your competitors are your enemies, those institutions may not be strong enough to hold a nation together. In a Perspective piece in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SFI External Prof more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Dec. 16 (TNSJou) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following agency statement: * * * We can't understand polarization unless we analyze it as a complex system, argue SFI External Professor Scott Page (University of Michigan) and co-author Delia Baldassarri in a commentary for a special feature on the dynamics of political polarization in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Polarization occurs both in ideology (beliefs about the world and appropriate polic more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 17 (TNSJou) -- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons issued the following news release on Dec. 16, 2021: Many patients who undergo heart surgery may be able to safely and effectively control postoperative pain without opioids after hospital discharge, according to research published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. "In some cases, patients assume that after surgery, especially a big operation like cardiac surgery, that they will need to go home with prescripti more PR