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Washington State University is working to provide an on-campus site to administer COVID-19 vaccines by the time most of its students become eligible to receive the shots. WSU spokesman David Wasson said the university has applied to the state to be a vaccine provider. He said the University Recreation facility could be a possible location to administer vaccines. The vaccine site will be limited to students, Wasson said. The university wants to provide a high-volume vaccination site for when an ...

Mike Berney, Palouse River Counseling executive director, spoke to the Pullman Police Advisory Committee on March 8 about the mental health impacts of COVID-19. Washington is in the bottom third in the country of available psychiatric beds per 100,000 people, Berney said. PRC has been paying attention to this because having available care is a necessity.  The behavioral health system, in general, has been significantly underfunded for quite a while, which also has a significant impact on polic...

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U.S. Financial Services Leaders Support Principles for Low-Carbon Transition U.S. financial services leaders have stated their support in principle for a U.S. transition to a low-carbon economy. The support comes following the release of the Principles for a U.S. Transition to a Sustainable Low-Carbon Economy by the U.S. Climate Finance Working Group. The group is comprised of 11 financial services trade associations that have come together around climate and sustainability topics relevant to t...

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 At the beginning of the year, we published a short report on the surge in year-end insurance regulatory activity concerning climate change risks (available here). January was another busy month, and we report below on noteworthy developments in Bermuda, Canada and the United States. IN DEPTH As readers will know, outside of the United Kingdom and European Union, most insurance regulators are only now beginning to grapple with how to incorporate climate chan...

Climate, AI, Privacy, Racial Bias Among State Insurance Regulators’ 2021 Priorities February 10, 2021 The country’s insurance regulators are vowing to prioritize the monitoring of the use of consumer and non-consumer data by companies, the use of artificial intelligence, and the availability and affordability of insurance products for racial minorities. They say they will also remain active responding to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its impact on ...

Vaccines offer light at end of the COVID-19 tunnel Written By: Post Bulletin Editorial Board | 6:00 am, Dec. 29, 2020 × Rochesters work on local climate efforts was recently honored as part of the 14th annual Climate Protection Awards. “We are honored and proud to receive this recognition from the U.S. Conference of Mayors,” Norton said in a statement announcing the recognition. Under Norton, the city established a Sustainability and Resiliency Task Force that was launched in the...

Restaurants of the Hazleton area are getting an early Christmas present — more business traffic. The Greater Hazleton Recovery and Resiliency Task Force is using five Food Trail Passports established through county CARES Act grant funding as a framework for a new contest. Having started Friday, participating restaurants will be featured in the Standard-Speaker and on the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce Facebook Page. To enter, participants must “like” the Chamber’s Face...

Local efforts among 12 winners of 2020 Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards. Written By: Post Bulletin staff reports | 9:48 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × Rochester and Mayor Kim Norton are among 12 cities and mayors recognized Friday for their local climate efforts as part of the 14th Annual Climate Protection Awards. “We are honored and proud to receive this recognition from the U.S. Conference of Mayors,” Norton said in a statement announcing the recognition through the initiative, spons...