WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, July 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Reserve Command issued the following news: By Capt. Rachel Ingram, 445th Airlift Wing Public Affairs At 0530 the lights come on, illuminating rows of bunk beds lining both walls of the barracks on Camp Dawson, West Virginia. From the bays emerge 35 motivated Defenders from the 445th Security Forces Squadron, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. They are spending the week on an Army National Guard post surrounded by 8,000 acres of remot  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Insight white paper on Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine - overview U.S. sanctions and other responses (No. IN11869) on July 6, 2022, by Cory Welt, Russian and European affairs specialist: * * * On February 24, 2022, Russia launched an undeclared war against Ukraine, a country Russia first invaded and partially occupied in 2014. The United States and many countries around the world have condemned Russia's "u  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed scientific journal from the American Chemical Society that says it publishes research in the intersection of chemistry and chemical engineering and non-nuclear energy and fuels, published research articles on the following topics in its July 7, 2022 edition: REVIEWS: * Supported Ir-Based Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolysis: A Minireview * Recent Advances in Machine Learning Research for Nanoflu  more

LONDON, England, July 8 -- The European Union's European Bank for Reconstruction and Development issued the following news: By Vanora Bennett A river-to-sea port located at the confluence of Danube and Prut rivers, which has given the tiny landlocked country of Moldova in southeastern Europe its only commercial access to international waters, is now fulfilling a vital second function. Since Russia blockaded ports along the Ukrainian Black Sea coast this spring, Giurgiulesti Port has also been   more

PARIS, France, July 8 (TNSres) -- The International Energy Agency issued the following news release on July 7, 2022: Ensuring a secure transition to net zero emissions will require increased efforts to expand and diversify global production of solar panels whose global supply chains are currently heavily concentrated in China, the IEA said in a new special report released today. Chinese industrial and innovation policies focused on expanding solar panel production and markets have helped solar  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) announced that he successfully secured $23,058,890 for local projects across Northeast Ohio in Fiscal Year 2023 funding bills recently advanced by the House Appropriations Committee. Funding included in the bills for these local projects is allocated within their respective agency program accounts and does not raise the overall spending level of the bill. The projects, along with the  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 8 (TNSpol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, and supported by environmental justice advocates and community members from Northeast Texas, joined the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in New Orleans to present oral argument at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals defending EPA's final sulfur dioxide (SO2) nonattainment designation for the area around Martin Lake, a coal-burning power plant in Northeast T  more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 8 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a Montana-led coalition supporting a petition for rehearing en banc in 350 Montana, et al. v. Dep't of Interior and Signal Peak, LLC, a case that has delayed the mining expansion plan for the Bull Mountain coal mine in Montana since 2013. Despite thorough research concluding that the coal mining project would not cause any significant adverse environmental imp  more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, July 8 (TNStalk) -- George Mason University issued the following Q&A on July 6, 2022, with research assistant professor John Kotcher: * * * John Kotcher, research assistant professor at George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, says that emphasizing the health implications of climate change is one of best ways to engage the public to fight for better policies. Kotcher recently spoke about how to communicate about climate change: What is climate chan  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 8 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Governor Glenn Youngkin announced the Virginia Department of Energy (Virginia Energy) is getting a significant increase in funding to reclaim abandoned mine land features across the Commonwealth. The agency was awarded $22,790,000 in federal funding which will significantly increase the projects and job opportunities made possible through the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) program. "We are excited to g  more