WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- American Rivers issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2022: Significant new investments are needed in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to reduce agricultural damages from flooding, according to The Multiple Benefits of Floodplain Easements released today by American Rivers. In the five Upper Mississippi River Basin states - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin - flooding is the most frequent and widespread cause of crop damage. Over the pas  more

ADA, Oklahoma, Oct. 13 -- The Chickasaw Nation, a federally-recognized Native American tribe, issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2022: Leaders of the five largest tribes in Oklahoma announced today they officially endorse State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister as Oklahoma's next Governor, citing her respect for tribal sovereignty and her commitment to work with the state's nearly 40 federally recognized tribes for the betterment of all Oklahomans. Leaders of the F  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Oct. 12 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District began construction of an underwater sill Oct. 11, 2022, across the bed of the Mississippi River channel to prevent further upriver progression of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River's volume of water has fallen to a level that allows salt water to intrude upstream. Saltwater from the Gulf of Mexi  more

IRVING, Texas, Oct. 13 -- ExxonMobil, an energy provider and chemical manufacturer, issued the following news release: CF Industries, a leading global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, has entered into the largest-of-its-kind commercial agreement with ExxonMobil to capture and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually from its manufacturing complex in Louisiana. Start-up for the project is scheduled for early 2025 and supports Louisiana's objective of  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2022: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced that it has released $59.9 billion in Fiscal Year 2023 apportionments for 12 formula programs to support investment in critical infrastructure, including roads, bridges and tunnels, carbon emission reduction, and safety improvements utilizing funding from Pre  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 13 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news on Oct. 12, 2022: Gov. John Bel Edwards and the executives of major global energy corporations CF Industries, ExxonMobil and EnLink Midstream announced an "unprecedented" decarbonization collaboration aimed at dramatically reducing industrial CO2 emissions in Louisiana. The announcement - described as a potential business prototype for industrial-scale carbon capture and sequestration projects - was  more

LANSING, Michigan, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Governor Gretchen Whitmer highlighted a new report from Clean Jobs Midwest showing that Michigan's clean energy workforce is nearly 120,000 strong, up 5.6% overall compared to 2020. The growth is driven by a 22% increase in the electric vehicle manufacturing subsector, with a majority of the overall jobs in energy efficiency. This news builds on a report from the U.S. Department of Energ  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 15 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: Members of Mayer Brown's global Energy team in Houston represented EnLink Midstream, LLC in the signing of a carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation service agreement (TSA) with ExxonMobil Corporation. Under the terms of the TSA, EnLink will utilize portions of its existing pipeline network, as well as build new facilities to deliver CO2 from the Mississippi River corridor in southeastern Louisiana to ExxonMobil's 12  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Oct. 14 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release: A top water policy expert has come out to say that Kari Lake's ideas for tackling Arizona's water crisis "would make the price of the water drastically more expensive for water users" and "might price out most people." Sarah Porter with Arizona State University's Kyl Center for Water Policy, who also serves on the Governor's Water Augmentation Council, said Lake's key proposal, pipelining water in from   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing the availability of the draft recovery plan for the rabbitsfoot mussel. This plan includes specific criteria for determining when the rabbitsfoot should be considered for delisting, removing it from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. It also lists site-specific actions that will be necessary to meet t  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri's School of Journalism issued the following news release: After floods hammered St. Louis and eastern Kentucky this summer, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk wanted to know: Is rainfall increasing in the basin? Desk Editorial Director Tegan Wendland worked with the nonprofit climate research and communication group Climate Central to produce new data analyses on this question. We found that average annual rainfall has   more