FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2022: Colorado's largest solar array and battery storage facility of its kind was the focus on Wednesday of a public ribbon-cutting celebration at Colorado Mountain College (CMC) Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs. The project is 95% complete and is scheduled to reach commercial operation this fall. Community members, rene  more

BERKELEY, California, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- As You Sow Foundation issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2022: As You Sow today released new Fossil Free Finance and Insurance ratings that score mutual funds and ETFs based on their investments in banks and insurers providing loans and underwriting that support fossil fuel projects. The Fossil Fuel Finance and Fossil Fuel Insurance ratings are the latest additions to the Fossil Free Funds investment tool. The new fund ratings score invest  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Working Group posted the following news release: * * * Ethereum's energy-efficient 'merge' leaves bitcoin as lone cryptocurrency climate polluter New $1M ad campaign, pressure on bitcoin investors to meet or beat ethereum's standard * * * As ethereum, the world's second largest cryptocurrency, dramatically cuts its climate pollution, environmental groups have intensified pressure on bitcoin to meet or beat ethereum's environmental performan  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2022: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded $1.5 billion from the popular Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) competitive grant program for highway, multimodal freight and rail projects that will make the nation's transportation systems safer and more resilient, eliminate supply chain bottlenecks, and improve   more

ST. JAMES, Louisiana, Sept. 16 (TNSgov) -- Earthworks issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2022: * * * Decision is a major victory for RISE St. James, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Healthy Gulf, No Waste Louisiana, Center for Biological Diversity, Earthworks, the Sierra Club, and others in a years-long fight * * * Louisiana's 19th Judicial District Court reversed the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's (LDEQ) decision to issue air permits that Formosa Plastics needed to bui  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 16 -- The European Commission issued the following opening remarks on Sept. 14, 2022, by Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans and Commissioner Kadri Simson at a news conference on an emergency intervention to address high energy prices: * * * It has now been almost 7 months since Putin started its illegal, barbaric war against Ukraine. We have since seen some incredible acts of bravery from the Ukrainians and despicable acts of barbarism from the Russians, but we   more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The European Commission issued the following fact sheet on Sept. 14, 2022: * * * Questions and Answers on an Emergency Intervention to Address High Energy Prices 1. Why has the Commission decided to intervene now in the market? Gas and electricity prices reached record levels in 2021 and again hit all-time highs in 2022, especially following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The skyrocketing electricity prices across Europe are intrinsically linked to t  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 16 -- The European Commission issued the following news release: The Commission is proposing an emergency intervention in Europe's energy markets to tackle recent dramatic price rises. The EU is confronted with the effects of a severe mismatch between energy demand and supply, due largely to the continued weaponisation by Russia of its energy resources. To ease the increased pressure this puts on European households and businesses, the Commission is now taking a next   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNScapv) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: A global coalition of advocacy nonprofits including ShareAction, BankTrack, Reclaim Finance, and the Sierra Club have written to the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) and the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) steering committee, urging NZBA members to restrict their financing of fossil fuel projects, including coal, in order to align with the recently strengthened Race to Zero criteria. The   more

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 16 -- Hogan Lovells, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm Hogan Lovells has advised client JX Nippon Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Japanese natural resources group Eneos Holdings, Inc, in a deal to acquire full ownership of Petra Nova Parish Holdings, the operator of a project to harness carbon dioxide emissions from a Texas coal-fired power plant. The deal will make JX Nippon the sole owner of the Petra Nova project, the world's largest carbon captu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- The Journal of Physical Chemistry A from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 15, 2022 edition: STRUCTURE, SPECTROSCOPY, AND REACTIVITY OF MOLECULES AND CLUSTERS: * Multilayer Multiconfiguration Time-Dependent Hartree Study on the Mode-/Bond-Specific Quantum Dynamics of Water Dissociation on Cu(111) * Investigation of the Electronic Structure and Optical Spectra of Uranium (IV), (V), and (VI) Complexes Using M  more

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 16 (TNSsro) -- The New York State Public Service Commission issued the following declaratory ruling (Case No. 21-M-0238) Sept. 15, 2022: * * * Petition of Fortistar North Tonawanda Inc. and Digihost International Inc. for a Declaratory Ruling Regarding Application of Section 70 and 83 of the New York State Public Service Law and the Alternative, Approval of the Proposed Transaction Pursuant to Sections 70 and 83. DECLARATORY RULING ON UPSTREAM TRANSFER TRANSACTION BY   more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: Solar panels have been in use for several decades in the United States, but what happens when they are old enough to be replaced or upgraded? Ilke Celik, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at South Dakota Mines, has received funding from the National Science Foundation to study methods for creating new types of solar panels that will b  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $1,681,161 from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) Coal Communities Commitment Program for the Woodlands Development Group in Elkins, West Virginia. The funding was made possible through the American Rescue Plan and will support broadband expansion in Randolph and Tucker counties. The project is expecte  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- Sen. Richard Burr, R-North Carolina, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, issued the following news release: Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, took to the Senate floor to call on Congress to immediately pass their resolution to prevent a disas  more

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, Sept. 16 -- The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command issued the following news: Michael Zwiebel's father's words are indelibly etched into his memory: "Michael, do it right or don't do it at all." That simple phrase became the lifelong work ethic that guided him. It motivated him throughout his life and his 40-year career with the Department of the Army to always try harder to do it or make it better. Zwiebel's father passed away three years ago at the age o  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSgov) -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release on Sept. 15, 2022, and letter: Today a coalition of more than 50 groups, joined by nearly 10,000 people, called on the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Deb Haaland, to live up to the Biden administration's promise to Honor the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico and halt new oil and gas leasing and fracking in the held-sacred landscape. The call comes as the Interior Department's Bu  more