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The U.S. Department of Energy is providing Texas with more than $218 million worth of stimulus funding for weatherization and state energy programs.

Well, if you can't get married here, you can get married elsewhere and have it recognized here. That seems to be the new push out of the California legislature at least. SB 54 was introduced by San Francisco Senator Mark Leno. The Democrat is hoping to codify what the California Supreme Court has already stated when the refused to rule on issues regarding the out of state marriages in the challenge to Prop 8.

New York - An organization of small island states on Friday criticized as unacceptable the decision by the world's major economies to limit global warming to below 2 degrees centigrade by 2050. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which gro...

It was announced on July 6 that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has named Brent Adams-who is openly gay and HIV positive-as the Acting Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR). Adams's appointment makes him the state's first openly HIV-positive cabinet member. 'Time and time again, Governor Quinn has demonstrated his commitment to progressive values, and I'm honored to play a role in promoting his vision of a state that strives to project and promote equality of life for all people, including persons living with HIV,' Adams, 36, told POZ. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1999. 'I think it's an encouraging step forward for all of us.' With IDFPR, Adams has chaired the Mortgage Fraud Task Force, coordinated the Mortgage Relief Project, and drafted legislation to advocate on behalf of state consumers. He has previously served as policy associate for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, a premier AIDS service organization in the state, and he was policy director for Citizen Action/Ill

From the beginning of July 2009, bakeries in Cologne will be supporting the 'Gay Games VIII Cologne 2010' with the new 'Cologne Coins' . In the future, 'Gay Games VIII, Cologne 2010' will be represented at the bakeries of Cologne on red and white shortbread coin cookies! The sale of the 'Cologne Coins' started with the Cologne Pride on 3 July 2009.

ENN has a new Affiliate, CyberRegs, the most comprehensive source of current full-text regulatory compliance information available. The feature-rich web portal provides access to domestic and international EHS regulatory content includes the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the Federal Register, and U.S. Code, plus extensive environmental, health & safety, and transportation regulations, statutes, registers, and forms from all 50 states, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Beijing - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale struck overnight in south-western China, destroying about 18,000 homes, injuring more than 300 people and forcing the evacuation of 400,000, state media reported Friday. The quake dam...

Think back to the last time that you beat a friend at a card game or outdid your previous record in a 5K race. Did you try to suppress your satisfaction so that others wouldn’t think you were conceited? In fact, new research suggests that pride, as long as it stems from a real success and doesn’t slide into know-it-all obnoxiousness or narcissism, not only pushes us to keep trying hard but actually makes others like us more.“Contrary to the idea that pride is an emotion that we should tamp down, the experience of pride can be very socially adaptive,” says Lisa Williams, a graduate student in psychology at Northeastern University and the new study’s lead author. She and Northeastern psychologist David DeSteno found that people who were told they had excelled on a spatial rotation task subsequently took more control over a similar, team-based task, regardless of their mood or how competent they reported feeling. Both teammates and outside observers rated pro

Beijing - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale struck overnight in south-western China, destroying about 18,000 homes, injuring more than 300 people and forcing the evacuation of 400,000, state media reported Friday. The quake dam...

Indiana youth smoking rates have dropped to the lowest levels on record, according to a new report released today by a state tobacco cessation and prevention organization.