TURIN, Italy, May 1 -- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change issued the following transcript of a speech on April 29, 2024, by Executive Secretary Simon Stiell at the G7 Ministerial Meeting of Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers : * * * I want to begin today on a positive note. The agreement we reached in Dubai - the UAE Consensus - was a huge achievement. Every one of you in this room now has less than a year to embed those targets in new national climate plans - N  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial held in Turin, Italy released its final text on Tuesday with all seven member states committing to phase out domestic coal power generation before 2035 - marking an unprecedented commitment from the United States and Japan, the only outlying G7 countri  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- ACS Omega, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its April 30, 2024, edition (Vol. 9, Issue 17): Reviews: * Development in the Synthesis of Bioactive Thiazole-Based Heterocyclic Hybrids Utilizing Phenacyl Bromide * Green Catalytic Synthesis of Ethylenediamine from Ethylene Glycol and Monoethanolamine: A Review Articles  more

BIRMINGHAM, England, May 1 -- Aston University issued the following news: Aston University civil engineering experts are teaming up with construction and surfacing company Miles Macadam to help make road surfaces more sustainable. The University has entered a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) with the Cheshire-based firm, which manufactures and installs 'grouted macadam', an asphalt and cement-based material for road and industrial surfacing. A KTP is a three-way collaboration between a bu  more

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 1 (TNSres) -- The Australian Conservation Foundation issued the following news release: A first-of-its kind investigation by the Australian Conservation Foundation has shown multiple catastrophic failures of the national nature law's biodiversity offsets scheme. Under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), the federal environment minister routinely approves projects that will forever destroy threatened species and habitat on the   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 30 -- Boston University issued the following news: By Jessica Colarossi For over a decade, the highly controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States was on-again, off-again. After getting kicked around like a political football as it passed between three different presidential administrations--blocked by Barack Obama, restarted by Donald Trump, called off by Joe Biden--its final demise in 2021 was heralded as a "major victory" for the   more

DENVER, Colorado, May 1 -- Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: On April 25, the Biden administration made several major announcements that will expand the use of clean energy, improve the electric grid, and save homeowners money by improving the energy efficiency of homes. These include a new power plant standard, key regulations for new and expanded access to electric transmission, and a strengthening of efficiency requirements for new houses and   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The Electric Power Supply Association issued the following news release: The federal permitting process for energy infrastructure should be streamlined and made more efficient for all types of power generation and storage assets, said the head of the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) following the Biden Administration's release of Phase 2 reforms to the federal permitting process under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). EPSA President and CEO Todd Snitchle  more

MILAN, Italy, April 30 -- Greenpeace International, a coordinating organization of Greenpeace, issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: In an interview with CNBC today,/1 Andrew Bowie MP, Minister in the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, made a statement that the G7 has agreed to phase out coal during the first half of the 2030s. In response, Tracy Carty, Global Climate Politics Expert, Greenpeace International, said "The G7 phasing out coal in the first half of the 2  more

LONDON, England, May 1 (TNSres) -- Greenpeace UK issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: A tax on the extraction of fossil fuels in the world's richest advanced economies could raise $720 billion by the end of the decade to support the world's most vulnerable facing climate damages, a new report published today has revealed. 'The Climate Damages Tax' report is backed by over 100 climate organisations worldwide including Greenpeace, Stamp Out Poverty, Power Shift Africa and Christi  more

MICHIGAN CITY, Indiana, May 1 -- The Indiana Senate Democrats issued the following statement on April 29, 2024, by State Sen. Rodney Pol, D-Chesterton: * * * The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Legacy Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Surface Impoundment Rule. This will extend federal monitoring and clean-up requirements to hundreds of previously excluded older coal ask landfills. State Senator Rodney Pol Jr. (D-Chesterton), a staunch proponent of coal ash clean up, released   more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- George Washington University issued the following news: The Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a round of new rules to cut hazardous and planet-warming pollutants. These rules are one of the most significant climate action initiatives to date. The new rules will compel coal and new natural gas power plants to either cut or capture 90% of their climate pollution by 2032. The agency also announced new for the neurotoxin mercury emitted  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Oil Change International issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today G7 climate, environment and energy ministers released a joint communique that falls short of carrying forward the ambition of the COP28 agreement to transition away from fossil fuels. G7 countries represent 27% of global oil and gas production, and are responsible for nearly 48% of CO2 from new oil and gas production. Oil Change International data shows between 2020 and 2022, the G7 provid  more

RICHLAND, Washington, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news: The circular economy just closed the loop on scrap aluminum, thanks to a new patent-pending technology developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. That twisted aluminum mesh, those banged up bicycle frames, and the used car parts now languishing in junk yards could gain new life as building structures such as door and window frames, f  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Montana, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today in a House Appropriations Interior, Environment and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing, Congressman Ryan Zinke pressed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan on the Biden Administration targeting Montana's primary source of energy, Colstrip, with new power plant rules signed on April 25, 2024. The rules include a blitz of regulations designed - in the words   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, released a joint staff report, entitled "Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil's Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change." Today's report marks a  more

PORTLAND, Maine, May 1 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, the Department of Interior (DOI) proposed a pair of wind energy auctions in the Gulf of Maine and Oregon. Accounting for 15 GW of the potential 18 GW generated from the two sales, the proposed Gulf of Maine auction includes eight lease areas off the shore of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The nearly 1 million acres up for auction could generate enough clean wind energy to power more t  more