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FAU Gets Grant to Study Seaweed Harvesting, Just as Blobs Approach South Florida Researchers at Florida Atlantic University are using a $1.3 million grant to see if huge blobs of seaweed can be harvested to help mitigate the economic impact on Florida beaches. The FAU Harbor Beach Oceanographic Institute this month announced the …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 12:56 PM |
District of Columbia AG Settles With NRA Over Alleged Violations of Nonprofit Law District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb last week announced a resolution of his office’s lawsuit against the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the NRA Foundation that alleges misuse of nonprofit funds and other violations of the District’s Nonprofit …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 12:53 PM |
Jury Weighing Military Contractor’s Claim of Immunity for Abu Ghraib Abuse A lawyer for the military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors Monday that the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people. “If you believe they were abused … tell them to …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 12:37 PM |
New Hampshire to Receive $20M Grant to Help Reconstruct Eroded Seawalls New Hampshire is getting a $20 million federal grant to help reconstruct coastal seawalls eroded by storms and flooding and received a disaster aid declaration to recuperate costs from a storm in January, officials said Monday. The grant, announced by …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 12:20 PM |
Global Insurance Prices Continue Moderating as Rates Decline in Most Regions: Marsh Global commercial insurance rates increased by 1% on average in the first quarter of 2024, compared with a 2% increase in Q4 2023, according to the Global Insurance Market Index published by Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan. …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 12:11 PM |
UK Firms Told to ‘Urgently Review’ Green Claims Amid Crackdown Firms operating in the UK are being advised to go through any products and services around which some sort of sustainability claim has been made, to ensure they’re not in the crosshairs of a regulatory crackdown that’s due to take …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 10:13 AM |
Republican Senators’ FARMER Act to Boost Crop Insurance Coverage Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers. Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) proposed the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancement and Resilience (FARMER) Act, an …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 10:00 AM |
Catastrophe Monitoring Firm ICEYE Completes $93 Million Funding Round ICEYE, the microsatellite manufacturer and catastrophe monitoring company, announced definitive agreement signed for an oversubscribed $93 million growth funding round. The financing will further accelerate investment in the world’s largest constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and expand the …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 9:29 AM |
Cleveland to Pay $4.8M to Family of 13-Year-Old Killed During Police Chase CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland will pay $4.8 million to the family of a 13-year-old girl killed when a stolen car driven by a teenage carjacker jumped a curb during a police pursuit and struck her. The settlement attorneys for the …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 8:00 AM |
China’s Ping An Insurance Reports 4.3% Drop in Q1 Net Profit Ping An Insurance’s first-quarter net profit fell 4.3%, hit by shrinking returns from property and casualty insurance as well as its asset management operations, the Chinese insurance giant reported on Tuesday. Turbulence in China’s stock market, declining interest rates and …
POSTED APRIL 24, 2024 7:55 AM |
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