WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (TNStalk) -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following statement on Aug. 15, 2022: * * * On Tuesday, President Biden is expected to sign the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which many are hailing as the panacea for fighting climate change while overlooking provisions that lock-in fossil fuel extraction on public lands while locking out Indigenous and Frontline communities. Continued oil and gas leasing on public lands, tax credits for dirty coal companies, and wildfire fund  more

BRISTOL, England, Aug. 16 -- Environmental Research Letters, a journal that says it covers environmental science, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2022 edition: Topical Review: * Temperate Regenerative Agriculture practices increase soil carbon but not crop yield--a meta-analysis Letters: * Divergent trends in irrigation-water withdrawal and consumption over mainland China * Backlash to fossil fuel phase-outs: the case of coal mining in US presidential el  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, Aug. 16 (TNSgov) -- The Defenders of Wildlife posted the following news: A federal judge in Montana District Court ruled today to reinstate a moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands, halting all coal leasing on federal lands until the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) completes a more sufficient environmental analysis. Defenders of Wildlife is one of several plaintiffs on this case. The original moratorium set by the Obama administration in 2016 was overturned by Tr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility issued the following news release: Significant amounts of the most destructive greenhouse gas ever known are being emitted during water resource research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Despite clearly adverse climate change consequences, NSF will continue funding projects using sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), a gre  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 12, 2022: * * * U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement regarding today's district court decision to reinstate a moratorium on coal lease sales on federal lands: "The Democrats' assault on American energy is relentless. "A morato  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2022: The U.S. House passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a legislative package to fight inflation, lower prescription costs for seniors, invest in domestic energy production and manufacturing, and reduce carbon emissions by roughly 40 percent by 2030. The U.S. Senate passed this legislation earlier this week. The bill also takes historic steps to force Wall Street and corporations to pay the  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 16 (TNSrpt) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry has pinned its long-term hopes for growth on emerging markets in China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. But a new IEEFA report finds that sustained high prices over the past year have eroded the economic case for LNG and hurt LNG sales in key Asian markets. "Less than one year into higher prices, LNG markets are alread  more