WASHINGTON, March 30 (TNSPol) -- The Center for International Environmental Law issued the following news release: As governments meet this week to review and approve a summary of the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) regarding climate mitigation, hundreds of organizations from around the world sent an open letter demanding that they focus on rapidly ending fossil fuel production and use. The letter, signed by nearly 350 organizations, including Center for   more

GRAPEVINE, Texas, March 30 (TNSfund) -- Associated General Contractors of America issued the following news release: Michigan State University's STEM Teaching and Learning Facility was the most significant construction project of 2021, the Associated General Contractors of America announced today. As a result, the project's contractor, Granger Construction Company, received the association's top prize, Construction Risk Partners Build America Grand Award, as well as the award for the best const  more

RICHMOND, British Columbia, March 30 -- Natural Resources Canada, an arm of the Canadian government, issued the following news release: Confronting climate change in thoughtful ways offers the potential for significant economic opportunities for businesses, communities and workers in Canada. That is why the Government of Canada is committed to building a clean energy future: to protect the environment, strengthen the economy and create good jobs. Today, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minis  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 (TNSpol) -- Greenpeace issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: A campaign to push Bitcoin to change its software code to use far less energy was launched today by the Environmental Working Group, Greenpeace USA, and several groups battling Bitcoin mining facilities in their communities. Decrying Bitcoin's growing greenhouse gas pollution, the campaign asks Bitcoin to change its code - not the climate. The campaign website, www.cleanupbitcoin.com, enables the pu  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 (TNSRep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following insight (No. IN11897) updated on March 28, 2022, entitled "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: European Union Responses and Implications for U.S.-EU Relations" by European affairs specialist Kristin Archick: * * * The 27-member European Union (EU) has responded with unprecedented unity and speed to Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. EU policy responses and coordination with the United States are of inte  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: A campaign to push bitcoin to change its software code to use far less energy was launched today by the Environmental Working Group, Greenpeace USA and several groups battling bitcoin mining facilities in their communities. Decrying bitcoin's growing greenhouse gas pollution, the campaign asks bitcoin to change its code - not the climate. The campaign website, www.cleanupbitcoin.com, ena  more

BERKELEY, California, March 30 (TNSRes) -- The National Association of Science Writers issued the following news: * * * America's power grid is increasingly threatened by both human-driven attacks and natural disasters. Technology can help increase resilience ... but only when implemented in tandem with the people who use it. * * * By Ryan Ernstes California wildfires. Cyber attacks by foreign entities. Freezing temperatures that left 11 million Texans without electricity. Whether caused by  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 30 (TNSRep) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release: Released today, the 13th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, the most comprehensive global analysis on fossil fuel banking to date, underscores the stark disparity between public climate commitments being made by the world's largest banks, versus the reality of their largely business-as-usual financing to the fossil fuel industry. The report documents that in the six years since the   more

OXFORD, England, March 30 (TNSRes) -- Oxfam International issued the following statement dated April 4, 2022: * * * Responding to the publication today of the IPCC's Working Group III report on climate change mitigation, Oxfam's Climate Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: "This IPCC report pulls no punches. The bleak and brutal truth about global warming is this: barring action on a sweeping scale, humanity faces worsening hunger, disease, economic collapse, mass migration of people and unbearable  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 30 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Republicans issued the following news release: Impartial analysis from the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) projects the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) could nearly quadruple electricity rates for consumers, Sens. Gene Yaw (R-23) and John Yudichak (I-14) said today. The IFO, revered across state government for its nonpartisan examination of budgetary policy, reviewed the administration's outdated RGGI modeling and presente  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined America Reports with John Roberts and Sandra Smith on Fox News to discuss his plan to implement an Operation Warp Speed to increase American energy production and address high gas prices. Earlier this month, Cassidy released a landmark energy and climate Policy outline for "Resetting American Energy  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected Mingo and Logan Counties as part of the Communities Local Energy Action Program (Communities LEAP). This first-of-its-kind initiative was designed to help traditional energy-producing communities create community-wide action plans that   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on March 29, 2022: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected Mingo and Logan Counties as part of the Communities Local Energy Action Program (Communities LEAP). This first-of-its-kind initiative was designed to help traditional energy  more

NEW YORK, March 30 -- White and Case, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm White & Case LLP is advising EIG, a leading institutional investor to the global energy and infrastructure sectors, on its joint acquisition with Fluxys, a leading energy infrastructure company, of an 80 percent equity stake in GNL Quintero S.A., the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Chile, from Enagas Chile SpA and affiliates of OMERS Infrastructure. Quintero is a   more

BRONX, New York, March 30 -- Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine issued the following news release: The National Cancer Institute-designated Albert Einstein Cancer Center (AECC) has announced the appointment of three faculty members to key leadership positions, reflecting the center's commitment to basic science, translational, and clinical research and its core principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. "Over than past 15 months, we have built on the existing strengt  more