WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) led 21 of his colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemning the Biden administration's latest attempt to weaponize the tax code against U.S. energy producers. The letter is in response to President Biden's budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. Specifically, the letter focuses on the $100 billion in targeted tax increases on energ  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 (TNSgov) -- The American Sustainable Business Network posted the following news release on March 15, 2023: The Biden administration has approved a controversial $8bn drilling project on Alaska's North Slope. The ConocoPhillips Willow project will be one of the largest of its kind on US soil, involving drilling for oil and gas at three sites for multiple decades on the 23m-acre National Petroleum Reserve which is owned by the federal government and is the largest tract of un  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), John Barrasso (R-WY), and 20 colleagues condemned the Biden administration's latest attempt to weaponize the tax code against U.S. energy producers. The letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in response to President Biden's budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. Specifically, the letter focuses on the $100 billion in targeted tax increases on energ  more

SAN RAMON, California, March 17 -- Chevron, an energy company, issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: A year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Europe's heightened energy crisis remained a dominant topic throughout CERAWeek 2023 in Houston, Texas. "If you look at the world, there's more demand and less supply because Russian gas is now shut in," said Colin Parfitt, Chevron's midstream vice president. "So how do you deal with that? You can create supply." Chevron, with its ample  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed scientific journal from the American Chemical Society that says it publishes research in the intersection of chemistry and chemical engineering and non-nuclear energy and fuels, published research articles on the following topics in its March 16, 2023 edition: Reviews: * Flammability Limits: A Comprehensive Review of Theory, Experiments, and Estimation Methods * Review on Recent Developments, Challenges, and Perspectives of Mn-Based O  more

BERLIN, Germany, March 17 -- Energy Efficiency, a peer reviewed journal that says it focuses on energy efficiency, savings, consumption, sufficiency and transition, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2023 edition: Original Articles: * Techno-economic evaluation of industrial heat pump applications in US pulp and paper, textile, and automotive industries * Challenges and opportunities for improving energy efficiency in SMEs: learnings from seven European projects  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: EPA is taking action to reduce harmful smog pollution today by finalizing the agency's Good Neighbor Plan for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The new federal program will protect residents in dozens of states who are unknowingly and unwillingly subjected to smog pollution from power plants and industrial facilities in other states, often hundreds of miles away. The final   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 2021 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis, which shows that environmental releases of TRI chemicals from facilities covered by the program remained below pre-pandemic levels and releases in 2021 are 10% lower than 2012 releases, even with an 8% increase from 2020 to 2021. Additionally, in 2021, facilit  more

BASEL, Switzerland, March 17 -- Fire, an open-access journal about the science, policy and technology of vegetation fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2023 edition: Articles: * Research on the Combustion Characteristics of Coal Piles and the Fire Risks of Closed Coal Bunkers * Effects of Rossby Waves Breaking and Atmospheric Blocking Formation on the Extreme Forest Fire and Floods in Eastern Siber  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, March 17 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Rex Budde will serve as a Member of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board./* Rex Budde has a forty year career working to better healthcare operations and finances. He recently retired as President/Chief Executive Officer after twenty-two years at Southern Illinois Healthcare in Carbondale, Illinois. While in this role, Budde grew the annual net revenues from $344 million in 2009 to $62  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on March 16, 2023: * * * Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Good Neighbor" final rule, which targets power plants and heavy industry: "The EPA's newest interstate emission rules will accelerate coal power plant closings and could lead to grid reliability problems like rolling blackouts throughout multiple states, including Vi  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: During remarks delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate this week, Senator John Hoeven pushed back on President Biden's tax-and-spend policies and outlined the negative impact that the president's budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 would have on American consumers and businesses. "I support a Balanced Budget Amendment, and have done so since I first came to the Senate. I think that is something   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 (TNSgov) -- Friends of the Earth posted the following news release on March 16, 2023: Conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department for failing to respond to a petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands. Signed by more than 360 climate, Tribal, religious and conservation groups, the January 2022 petition provides a policy framework for managing the decline of federal oil and gas production to near zero by 203  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 17 (TNSpar) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: LSU and the largest ports in Louisiana announced a partnership to develop cybersecurity talent and technology for critical infrastructure. The collaborative effort connects the university's growing strengths in cybersecurity to the ports' pivotal role in the global supply chain and in securing food, energy, goods and materials for the nation and world. The agreement betw  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 17 (TNSper) -- The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rebecca L. Tepper today appointed Jamie Van Nostrand to be Chair of the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) and Staci Rubin to Commissioner. Cecile Fraser will continue her tenure as Commissioner in the Healey-Driscoll Administration. These appointments will be charged with carrying out  more

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, March 16 (TNSres) -- The University of Notre Dame issued the following news: The University of Notre Dame will install a 46,000-square-foot solar array on the west side of campus, along Indiana 933, as part of an ongoing effort to diversify its energy supply and achieve net zero campus carbon emissions by 2050. The county council voted in favor of the project on Tuesday (March 14), clearing the way for work to begin this summer. Accounting for potential supply chain issues  more

BRISBANE, Australia, March 16 (TNSres) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: Three QUT researchers have been awarded Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships related to climate change mitigation. The fellowships are funded by the Queensland Government's Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport. The projects include rehabilitation of mining land and carbon sequestration using a nitrogen-fixing plant; the abatement or sequestration of carbon in Queensla  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, issued the following news release and letter: Senator Rick Scott joined Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) in leading 20 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemning the Biden administration's latest attempt to weaponize the tax code against U.S. energy producers. The letter is in response to President Biden's budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. Specifically, the letter focuses on the $100 billion in targe  more

CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana, March 17 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: Yesterday evening, Sierra Club, on behalf of itself and Center for Biological Diversity, Healthy Gulf, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and Turtle Island Restoration Network, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for approving another methane gas export facility - Commonwealth LNG - in Southwest Louisiana. The groups argue that FERC violated the Nationa  more

DALLAS, Texas, March 16 (TNSres) -- Southern Methodist University issued the following news: * * * Tiny pH sensor developer by SMU student could be next-gen freshness predictor for packaged food * * * Forget that expiration date on your salmon or yogurt. A graduate student at SMU (Southern Methodist University) has developed a miniature pH sensor that can tell when food has spoiled in real time. The flexible pH sensor is only 2 millimeters in length and 10 millimeters wide, making it possib  more

NEW DELHI, India, March 17 (TNSres) -- The Centre for Science and Environment issued the following news release: Many of the coal-based power plants in Delhi-NCR have made very little progress on complying with official directives - finds a new study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). To add to this, a recent (February 2023) notification by the environment ministry has given these plants more leeway to delay meeting the directives. In October 2021, the Union Ministry of Power had ma  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 (TNSgov) -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: Conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Interior Department for failing to respond to a petition to phase out oil and gas extraction on public lands. Signed by more than 360 climate, Tribal, religious and conservation groups, the January 2022 petition provides a policy framework for managing the decline of federal oil and gas production to near zero by 2035  more