LONDON, England, Feb. 23 -- Hogan Lovells, a law firm, issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Global law firm Hogan Lovells today released a summary of the firm's financial results for FY 2021, announcing record gains across key metrics, including total global revenue, profits per equity partner, and revenue per lawyer. * Across our regions, the Americas represented approximately 47% of total billings, EMEA 47%, and Asia-Pacific 6%. * In terms of our three global practice group  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued the following statement by Nancy Sutley, chief sustainability officer at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, involving a remote hearing on Feb. 15, 2022, entitled "Keeping the Lights On: Strategies for Grid Resilience and Reliability". Sutley is also the department's senior assistant general manager of external and regulatory affairs. * * * I am Nancy Sutley, Senior Assistant General Manager of External   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis issued the following testimony by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Mark P. Mills involving a remote hearing on Feb. 15, 2022, entitled "Keeping the Lights On: Strategies for Grid Resilience and Reliability": * * * I'm a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute where I focus on science, technology, and energy issues. I am also a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University where my focus  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures issued the following testimony by Mark McClymonds, president of McClymonds Supply and Transit Co., involving a Feb. 15, 2022, hearing entitled "Examining the Economic Impact of Federal Infrastructure Investment": * * * The McClymonds trucking business was formed in 1945 by my father, George R. McClymonds. Upon returning home from World War II, he launched the business by purchasing his first truck, a singl  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on Feb. 22, 2022: Co-sponsored by NETL, the 7th International Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium kicked off in San Antonio, Texas today, presenting an opportunity for the Lab to network with partners and describe its work advancing supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle technologies that can enable carbon capture while generating power. The Symposi  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following commentary to the Charleston Gazette-Mail: * * * In an op-ed Sunday for the Charleston Gazette-Mail, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) outlined her opposition to President Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator, a position she would serve in for 10 years if confirmed. "Ms. Raskin's contempt for energy jobs is clear. In May 2020--at the height of  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, published an op-ed in the Wheeling Intelligencer on the new investments coming to West Virginia to address abandoned mine lands and clean up orphaned oil and gas wells. The historic amount of funding, made possibl  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 -- The United Nations issued the following remarks via video message by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the International Labour Organization Global Forum in Geneva entitled "Building a Human-Centred Recovery from the COVID-19 Crisis": * * * I commend Director General Ryder and the ILO for organizing this Global Forum. Your gathering comes at a crucial time when our ability to recover from this pandemic -- and rescue the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals] -- hangs in   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 23 -- The United Nations issued the following remarks via video message by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a conference entitled "Energizing the World While Preserving the Planet" in Lisbon: * * * Dear friends, I commend the Club de Lisboa for its support for sustainable development on land and sea. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals entails urgent action to address the triple planetary crisis of climate disruption, biodiversity loss and pollution. COP26 in Glasg  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: The United States is taking action to respond to President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognize the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DNR and LNR) as "independent" states and to deploy troops to these regions by sanctioning two major Russian state-owned financial institutions, imposing additional restrictions on Russian sovereign debt, and sanctioning five Kremlin-con  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a virtual event on Feb. 22, 2022, with President Biden regarding securing critical minerals: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Tom. Tom Conway, you going to say hi to me? MR. CONWAY: Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I haven't seen you in such a long time. MR. CONWAY: Oh, it's been a while. You doing all right? THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, you're one of the only reasons I'm sitting in this chair. Thank you. (Laughter.) Hi, ever  more

FARMINGTON, New Mexico, Feb. 23 (TNSPol) -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Over 125 Tribal, grassroots, national, and statewide organizations and businesses-including elected officials, scientists, and religious leaders-joined the Greater Chaco Coalition today in calling on Secretary Deb Haaland to immediately pause impending oil and gas drilling in the region while the Interior Department's "Honoring Chaco" Initiative gets underway. In a letter sent to  more