MOUNT VERNON, Iowa, July 7 (TNSjou) -- Cornell College issued the following news release: A team of researchers has discovered human activity is the cause for drying out the climate in southwestern Europe. Using funding from a 2018 National Science Foundation grant, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, including Cornell College William Harmon Norton Professor of Geology Rhawn Denniston, identified how and why droughts have occurred in southern Portugal over the last millennium. The latest   more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- The Green Party issued the following news release on July 6, 2022: The Green Party of the United States today denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's West Virginia v. EPA 6-3 decision, siding with coal and other polluters against the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Greens said it may have been a death blow in the fight to halt climate collapse. Greens said it is long past time to overhaul the rogue, undemocratic Supreme Court, whose powers and reach have expanded beyo  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change issued the following testimony by Stephanie Erwin, director of circular economy policy at the American Sustainable Business Network, involving a virtual hearing on June 30, 2022, entitled "No Time to Waste: Solutions for America's Broken Recycling System": * * * My name is Stephanie Erwin. I am the Director of Circular Economy Policy at the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) where I lea  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The accomplishments of NETL's Richard Dennis to advance the development of high-efficiency turbines for low-cost power generation were recognized at Turbo Expo 2022, a conference held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for world leaders in the fields of turbomachinery and propulsion engineering. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electric Power Technical  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on July 6, 2022, on the American Rescue Plan's Special Financial Assistance Program: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Cleveland! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. (The orchestra concludes playing "Hail to the Chief.") Thank you to the orchestra. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Well, let me start off by saying -- I'd get in trouble with my mother, were she here, if I didn't say, "Excuse my back when I'm speaking." I apologize. N  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) made stops last week in Kenova, Barboursville, Cross Lanes, Charleston, Apple Grove, Point Pleasant, and White Sulphur Springs during the U.S. Senate's state work period. During the visits, Senator Capito met with local leaders, visited several businesses, and highlighted economic development opportunities across the state. On Monday, S  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: * * * Producing synthesis gas, a precursor of a variety of fuels and chemicals, no longer requires natural gas, coal or biomass * * * Solar-powered synthesis gas could recycle carbon dioxide into fuels and useful chemicals, an international team of researchers has shown. "If we can generate syngas from carbon dioxide utilizing only solar energy, we can use this as a precursor for methanol a  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on July 6, 2022: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to the city of Fairhope, Alabama, to establish a business resource hub for technology entrepreneurs. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan and EDA's $300 million Coal Communities Commitment. This pr  more