WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-California, issued the following news release: At today's full committee hearing, Examining the President's FY 2025 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior, featuring testimony from Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, House Natural Resources Committee Vice Ranking Member Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) delivered the opening statement below. Vice Ranking Member Kamlager-Dove highlighted several newly finalized and widely celebrated rules from   more

NEW YORK, May 3 (TNSres)(TNScapv) -- Waterkeeper Alliance posted the following news release on May 2, 2024: Today, the Environmental Integrity Project, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Center for Biological Diversity sent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a notice of intent to sue for its failure to issue national reports on water quality, which is a key requirement of the federal Clean Water Act. The landmark 1972 law requires EPA to report on the condition of America's streams, rivers, lake  more

GATINEAU, Quebec, May 3 (TNSres) -- Environment and Climate Change Canada issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Cutting the pollution that is fuelling costly climate change while building a strong, sustainable Canadian economy to create jobs and invest in a competitive, decarbonizing world is the key to success in the 21st century. The latest National Inventory Report confirms Canada has bent the curve and is reducing emissions toward achieving the country's 2030 emissions reduction  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: * * * "I Would Hope that the Biden Administration Would Not Have Knowingly Released an Updated Model that Favors Foreign Feedstocks by Imposing Barriers for U.S. Biofuels." At an Appropriations Committee Hearing today, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan about the negative impacts of the administration's newly-released GREET model an  more

LONDON, England, May 3 -- FutureCoal (formerly the World Coal Association) issued the following news: Following the announcement to "phase out existing unabated coal" by 2035 at the G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy, and Environment, FutureCoal insists that world leaders must embrace a balanced, pragmatic, and responsible approach to energy policy. Chief Executive Michelle Manook said the official Communique released by the G7 is unclear in what they seek to achieve as "many of the G7 c  more

BLOOMINGTON, Illinois, May 3 -- The Illinois Farm Bureau issued the following news release: Illinois Wheat Association is inviting farmers and researchers to tour wheat fields and take estimate yields of the winter wheat crop during its annual Wheat Plot Tour on May 21 at the Southern Illinois University Belleville Research Center. The tour will include field checks during the day with a late afternoon reporting session at the SIU Belleville Research Center, 2036 Charles Lane, Belleville, IL.   more

LONDON, England, May 3 -- The Journal of Materials Chemistry C, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it covers production of materials related to display technologies, optical materials, magnetics, electronics or information storage technology, published research articles on the following topics in its May 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 17): * Fundamentals and applications of functional framework materials: a themed collection * Intrinsically stretchable orga  more

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 2 -- The Mainstream Renewable Power issued the following news on May 1, 2024: Mainstream Renewable Power today announced that Gippsland Skies Offshore Wind ("Gippsland Skies"), a consortium of Australian and international companies, comprising Mainstream Renewable Power, Reventus Power, AGL Energy and DIRECT Infrastructure, has been granted a feasibility licence by the Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy, for a fixed bottom 2.5 GW offshore wind project off t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding environment. Each year, roughly 2.47 billion gallons of lubricating oil are consumed in the United States alone for engines and industrial machinery, according to DOE, with about half eventually finding  more

CALGARY, Alberta, May 3 -- Pembina Institute issued the following statement on May 2, 2024: * * * Chris Severson-Baker, Executive Director at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the release of the 2022 National Inventory Report: "Canada's climate policies are starting to pay off. As we returned to more usual levels of economic activity after the pandemic, emissions in 2022 were lower than they had been in 2019. It appears the suite of measures introduced by the   more

CALGARY, Alberta, May 3 (TNSres) -- Pembina Institute issued the following statement on May 1, 2024: * * * Scott MacDougall, Director of the Pembina Institute's electricity program, made the following statement in response to Capital Power's Genesee 1 coal-fired power plant announcement. "This marks an important milestone in Alberta's progress to phaseout coal from its energy supply. The retirement of Genesee 1 means there is now only one remaining plant still burning coal in the province, wh  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on May 2, 2024: Today, U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) held a hearing to question U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland about the President's budget request for the DOI for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25). During the hearing, Chairman Manchin discussed DOI's expected loss in revenue d  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Sen.) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding left-wing climate policy: "Last week, the Biden Administration's EPA finalized new regulations targeting producers of affordable and reliable American energy. The so-called Clean Power Plan 2.0 is just the latest front in Washington Democrats' long and disastrous War  more

GLAND, Switzerland, May 2 -- WWF Global issued the following news release: G7 climate and energy ministers have pledged to phase out unabated coal by 2035 at the latest. This shows that leading emitters are starting to respond to the decision made at the UN climate summit COP28 in December last year, where countries agreed to 'transition away from fossil fuels'. However, coal is already on the decline in most G7 countries, so they should raise their ambition and move to phase it out by no later  more