WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- ACS Omega, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Oct. 4, 2022 edition: REVIEWS: * Exploring the Anionic Redox Chemistry in Cathode Materials for High-Energy-Density Sodium-Ion Batteries * Fluoropolymers and Their Nanohybrids As Energy Materials: Application to Fuel Cells and Energy Harvesting ARTICLES: * Experim  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: The Sierra Club released today the second edition of its ground-breaking report, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, that exposes how most major electric utilities greenwash their climate action commitments. The report grades utilities across the country based on their plans to retire coal plants, cease building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy. The report demonstrates   more

VAN LEAR, Kentucky, Oct. 5 -- Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers released the following statement in memory of Loretta Lynn, the Johnson County native who first became famous for "Coal Miner's Daughter," the song she wrote about her life in Van Lear, Kentucky. "We have lost one of Eastern Kentucky's brightest country music stars, Loretta Lynn, Johnson County's talented Coal Miner's Daughter. Her incredible voice and honest lyrics ha  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Oct. 5 -- Entergy issued the following news release: The Arkansas Public Service Commission has approved the Entergy Arkansas Driver Solar Project, a new 250-megawatt AC (or 312 MW DC) renewable energy plant developed by Lightsource bp, which will be located on approximately 2,100 acres near Osceola in Mississippi County. Driver Solar will be the utility's largest solar facility, capable of generating enough energy to power more than 40,000 homes. "Driver Solar adds high  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: Entergy Texas, a utility company headquartered in the Woodlands, received an "F" for its lack of plans to transition to clean energy in a new report by Sierra Club. The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges report and research tool grades utilities based on their plans to retire coal plants, not build new gas plants, and invest in clean energy. This is the report's second edition. The firs  more

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Oct. 5 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Yesterday, members of the public across Texas submitted over 200 comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) during the scoping process for the Rio Grande LNG's proposal for a carbon capture storage facility and pipeline in Cameron County. The Sierra Club, together with the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, the City of Port Isabel, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, on behalf of the  more

HELENA, Montana, Oct. 5 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Late Friday, Billings Federal District Court Judge Susan Watters ruled that a massive expansion of the Rosebud coal strip-mine was approved illegally. The expansion was approved in June 2019 by the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM), and allowed Western Rosebud Mining, LLC (WRM) to strip-mine a new area, known as Area F. The court ruled that OSM failed to consider the impacts from this ma  more

HELENA, Montana, Oct. 5 (TNSgov) -- Earthjustice posted the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Late Friday, Billings Federal District Court Judge Susan Watters ruled that a massive expansion of the Rosebud coal strip-mine was approved illegally. The expansion was approved in June 2019 by the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and allowed Western Rosebud Mining, LLC (WRM) to strip-mine a new area, known as Area F. The court ruled that OSM failed to consider the impacts from this massiv  more

HELENA, Montana, Oct. 5 (TNSgov) -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Late Friday, Billings Federal District Court Judge Susan Watters ruled that a massive expansion of the Rosebud coal strip-mine was approved illegally. The expansion was approved in June 2019 by the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM), and allowed Western Rosebud Mining, LLC (WRM) to strip-mine a new area, known as Area F. The court ruled that OSM failed to consider the impacts from thi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Oct. 4, 2022, by Commissioner James Danly on a decision (Docket No. EL22-60-000) involving Coalition of MISO Transmission Customers vs. Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.: * * * I join the Commission's decision to deny the complaint the Coalition of MISO Transmission Customers (Complainants)[1] filed pursuant to sections 206, 306, and 309 of the Federal Power  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Today Recourse, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Asian Peoples Movement for Debt and Development released a new report that reveals the World Bank's role in pushing for new and expanded gas power and LNG import infrastructure in Vietnam. This push has been facilitated by funding and policy advice from the World Bank and its private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation, under the guis  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 5 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind energy technology testbed in Southwest Virginia that will provide land as laboratories and scientific assistance to promote energy innovation. The Energy DELTA Lab's initial site will be located in Wise County near the Town of Pound, and current plans call for the potential development of additional testbed si  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: The Sierra Club released today the second edition of its ground-breaking report, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, that exposes how most major electric utilities greenwash their climate action commitments. The report grades utilities across the country based on their plans to retire coal plants, cease building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy. The report demonstrates  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: * * * Coordinated government action is required to urgently improve the regulations governing monopoly electricity networks, to reduce pressure on consumer's electricity bills Key Takeaways: Energy network providers in the eastern states of Australia extracted $10 billion in supernormal profits over 2014-2021, with consumers paying higher retail electricity prices   more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Oct. 5 (TNSfund) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news on Oct. 4, 2022: The University of Alabama in Huntsville President Dr. Chuck Karr and his wife Jodie are fast approaching the one-year anniversary of their arrival to Huntsville and the university, and during their time here, they've felt welcomed and supported. "We are so blessed to be associated with this university and the community," Dr. Karr says. "People here have taken us in and accepted us." T  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (TNStalk) -- Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue issued the following news release: Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Nury Turkel joined former Under Secretary of State Keith Krach, chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, to discuss divestment from Chinese companies complicit in human rights abuses and the need to strengthen defenses against the Chinese high-tech companies that empower the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarianism, which threatens  more

MCLEAN, Virginia, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- The Logistics Management Institute issued the following news: LMI's environmental planning team (Jennifer Brown, Ashley Rivero, and David Walls) completed lichen biomonitoring training sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service, Region 6. The team spent three days in the Rouge River-Siskiyou National Forest's Kalmiopsis Wilderness, where they learned how to set a biomonitoring plot, calculate tree density, identify lichen plant communities, set abundance scores, a  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: A new study in New Mexico's San Juan Basin will boost efforts to identify and reduce methane emissions, a key element of the Global Methane Pledge. The research team found that using multiple methods to measure the ratio of ethane to methane in the ambient air around fossil energy development regions can be used to attribute emissions to specific polluters. "We were able to   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release and letter: With climate chaos flooding states, burning communities across the West, and driving crippling droughts, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley along with Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Biden requesting his Administration build on t  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: The Sierra Club released today the second edition of its ground-breaking report, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, that exposes how most major electric utilities greenwash their climate action commitments. The report grades utilities across the country based on their plans to retire coal plants, cease building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy. The report demonstrates if  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: The Sierra Club released today the second edition of its ground-breaking report, The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges, that exposes how most major electric utilities greenwash their climate action commitments. The report grades utilities across the country based on their plans to retire coal plants, cease building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy. The report demonstrates if,  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release and letter: With climate chaos flooding states, burning communities across the West, and driving crippling droughts, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), led by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), sent a letter to President Biden requesting his Admin  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: After nearly two years, Ameren Missouri and Evergy have made little progress in their plans to move from coal and gas to clean energy, while Associated Electric Cooperatives Incorporated (AECI) actually regressed. This assessment comes from Sierra Club's second The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges report released today. According to the updated report, Evergy improved its score  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: Dominion Energy, which bills itself as one of the nation's leading clean energy companies, is one of the worst greenwashing utilities in South Carolina and the entire country, according to comprehensive analysis by the Sierra Club. "The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges" has been updated by Sierra Club experts for 2022. The report grades utilities based on their plans to reti  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: Despite public claims that Duke Energy is taking bold action to address the climate crisis, it remains one of the country's biggest and dirtiest companies, with plans to build out more methane-spewing gas than any other U.S. utility, according to a wide-ranging analysis by the Sierra Club. "The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges" has been updated by Sierra Club experts for 2022. The report   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: In a new version of Sierra Club's groundbreaking report, the Dirty Truth About Climate Pledges, PacifiCorp has earned a D grade for the way the utility has delayed the transition to clean energy from coal and gas that poisons the air, threatening the public health of communities, and exacerbating the climate crisis. The largest grid operator in the West, PacifiCorp serves more than 2 mill  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 4, 2022: Yesterday, the Sierra Club released the second edition of "The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges," a report and accompanying interactive tool which grades utilities' climate change promises. The grades are based on utility plans to retire coal plants, stop building new gas plants, and invest in clean energy -- allowing the public to judge each utility's climate progress and how it com  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2022: The Sierra Club launched a new version of their groundbreaking report and interactive tool, The Dirty Truth About Climate Pledges. The report investigates how utilities are delaying the transition to clean energy despite their climate commitments and assigns grades to major utilities based on three primary criteria: plans to retire polluting coal plants, whether they plan to build new gas power pla  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Oct. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs issued the following news: * * * Humphrey School's Gabe Chan is researching and teaching about rural co-ops and their adoption of renewable energy * * * Rural electric cooperatives, first created by local communities in the early part of the 20th century to electrify rural America, provide power to some 42 million people spread out over half of the U.S. landmass. As such, the  more