LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 11 (TNSRes) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Rami Alloush, of Damanhour, Egypt, took top honors in the recent $4,000 9H Research Foundation energy competition at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources. Alloush, a doctoral student of petroleum engineering in UW's Center of Innovation for Flow through Porous Media (COIFPM), received $2,000 for his detailed examination of the hydrogen production options available to Wyoming. He co  more

DENVER, Colorado, May 14 (TNStalk) -- Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, issued the following statement: * * * Governor Polis released a statement following an administrative ruling that Xcel Energy can recover $509 million by increasing customer bills to pay for surging natural gas costs during a February 2021 storm. "I am disappointed that utility providers are able to balance their financial loss on the backs of consumers, when extra costs could have been avoided by better early warning system  more

LEBANON, Indiana, May 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 13, 2022: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that 10 Indiana recipients will receive $9.4 million in funding to assess or clean up brownfield sites or to support revolving loan funds. This includes two Brownfields grants totaling $5.9 million to the Indiana Finance Authority. EPA officials joined with state and local officials today at a Brownfields redevelopment site i  more

LANSING, Michigan, May 13 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on May 12, 2022: The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved a settlement agreement resolving Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp.'s (UMERC) integrated resource plan (IRP), the utility's long-range projections for providing electricity to its customers in the Upper Peninsula (Case No. U-21081). Approval of the settlement agreement authorizes UMERC to proceed with its preferred cours  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 14 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release on May 13, 2022: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and U.S. Senator Bob Casey today toured the Anthracite Outdoor Adventure Area in Shamokin to highlight how abandoned mine reclamation projects can benefit local economies and communities. The Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act will provide an additional $244 million for abandoned mine land (  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced the Appalachian Regional Commission's (ARC) Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative has awarded two grants to the Outdoor Recreation Council of Appalachia in Athens. These investments, totaling $1,493,716, will go toward the Gateway Communities and Sustainable Recreation project, an asset-based approach to building res  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee issued the following testimony by Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, involving a hybrid hearing on May 5, 2022, entitled "Examining Student Loan Servicers and Their Impact on Workers": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) Shadow Student Debt Hiding in the penumbra of America's $1.75 trillion mountain of federal and mainstream private student loan debt sits a massive, opaque, an  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following opening statement at a hearing on May 5, 2022, on the fiscal 2023 budget request for the Energy Department: * * * I am pleased to welcome my dear friend Secretary Jennifer Granholm back to the Committee to discuss President Biden's Fiscal Year 2023 Budget request for the Department of Energy. Thank you for joining us this morning, Madam Secretary. The on  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 (TNSreact) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: People across the country concerned for their environment and health, including many in Texas, testified at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s public hearing regarding the federal agency's proposal to "bump up" the ozone pollution nonattainment designations for the current ozone standard from marginal to moderate across the country, which includes the greater Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas-Fort Worth   more

MOSCOW, Idaho, May 14 -- The University of Idaho issued the following news release: The University of Idaho Alumni Association has inducted six Vandals into its Alumni Hall of Fame. Alumni Hall of Fame inductees from 2020, 2021 and 2022 will be recognized at a Friday, May 13, luncheon and the U of I Commencement on Saturday, May 14, in Moscow. The honored alumni are: Richard Swindell '72, Brian Hill '65, Charles T. Ratcliffe '67, Dennis T. Sauer '72, Ramesh C. Kumar '81 and Virginia Brodin Wri  more