WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), joined 21 of her colleagues this week in a letter - led by U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) - to U.S. Department of 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   more

WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSgov) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: 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

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release and letter: Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) this week joined Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to push back on energy tax increases proposed in President Biden's budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. Specifically, the senators outline the harmful impact of the administration's proposed $100 billion in targeted tax increases on energy, including the producti  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led 19 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemning the Biden administration's latest a  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, joined Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and 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 Presi  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Treasury, Janet Yellen, along with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and other colleagues condemning efforts by the Biden administration to use the U.S. tax code to penalize American energy production. Doing so will raise energy prices, drive jobs overseas, and force the United States to further rely on more-polluting foreign energy  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