MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 22 (TNSrpt) -- The Australian Council of Trade Unions issued the following news release: The ACTU calls on the Albanese Government to quickly establish a national Energy Transition Authority tasked with ensuring that workers and their communities affected by the move to net zero emissions are fully supported, in a paper released today ahead of the Jobs Summit. The report, 'Secure Jobs for a Safer Climate', shows how Australia's energy transition has been chaotic to d  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 19 -- The Iowa Environmental Council issued the following news on Aug. 18, 2022: Rather than building a generation system that tackles the climate crisis while lowering costs, MidAmerican's latest proposal to the Iowa Utilities Board asks customers to foot the bill for two systems: wind and coal. Increasing solar and storage, as many utilities around the country are doing, would allow MidAmerican to prudently transition its five Iowa coal plants into retirement while buil  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 22 -- The Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2022 edition: Technical Note: * A precise and accurate analytical method for determination of osmium isotope ratios at the 1-15 pg level by using a MC-ICP-MS equipped with sparging introduction and high-sensiti  more