CHICAGO, Illinois, May 13 (TNStalk) -- The Citizens Utility Board issued the following statement on May 12, 2023: * * * This narrow vote is nothing less than a bailout for fossil fuels that have proven over and over that they can't perform when customers need them the most. Team gas is so frightened of non- performance that they need to change the rules and let themselves off the hook. A significant portion of our electric bills goes to capacity payments that are supposed to guarantee that pow  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-New York, issued the following news release: Reps. Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) and Adriano Espaillat reintroduced the "Block All New (BAN) Fossil Fuel Exports Act" (formerly the "BAN Oil Exports Act"), alongside the bill's Senate sponsor, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA): In 1975, Congress passed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which effectively banned the export of U.S. crude oil and natural gas. In 2015, this 40-year export ban was unwisely lifted. Si  more

HELENA, Montana, May 19 (TNSgov) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on May 18, 2023: Conservation groups filed suit in Montana District Court today challenging a Montana Board of Environmental Review (BER) decision attempting to invalidate a selenium water quality standard that was adopted to protect Lake Koocanusa from harmful pollution. The pollution originates upstream from open-pit Canadian coal mines. The board initially adopted the 0.8 parts per million standard in 2020 aft  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Integrity Project issued the following news release: More than 1,100 municipal landfills emitted at least 3.7 million metric tons of methane in 2021, which had the climate-warming impact of 66 million gasoline-powered vehicles driving for a year or 79 coal-fired power plants, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). To reduce this major but little-discussed source of potent greenhouse gases, EPA must impose regulat  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- The White House issued the following G7 Hiroshima leaders' communique: * * * Preamble 1. We, the Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), met in Hiroshima for our annual Summit on May 19-21, 2023, more united than ever in our determination to meet the global challenges of this moment and set the course for a better future. Our work is rooted in respect for the Charter of the United Nations (UN) and international partnership. We are taking concrete steps to: * support Ukrain  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 20 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: United States Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) yesterday, on the eve of the G-7 Summit in Japan, introduced the Indo-Pacific Strategic Energy Initiative Act, legislation to promote the financing and development of new energy infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region--with a focus on natural gas--in order to end U.S. allies' dependence on Russian natural  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, introduced House and Senate versions of the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act to modernize the nation's severely antiquated Mining Law of 1872. The bills will address major environmental justice c  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies issued the following written testimony by Americans United for Life Senior Counsel Clarke Forsythe at a public witness day hearing on March 23, 2023, on the pro-life riders funding request: * * * Dear Chair Aderholt, Ranking Member DeLauro, and Members of the Subcommittee: My name is Clarke Forsythe, and I serve as Senior Counsel at Americans United for Life ("AUL").   more

LANSING, Michigan, May 17 -- The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that southeast Michigan has met all federal standards for the national health-based standard for ozone. Ground-level ozone, one of the most monitored pollutants in Michigan, has shown steady improvements in the greater Detroit area since the 1990s, culminating in the region now being designated as "in attainme  more

CHIPPENDALE, Australia, May 20 (TNStalk) -- The Nature Conservation Council issued the following statement on May 19, 2023: * * * The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales (NCC), the state's leading environmental advocacy organisation, has today argued that the recent submission by the NSW government's Net Zero Unit is a watershed moment for new coal and gas in NSW. "It's great to see a frank acknowledgement by the team tasked with getting us to net zero emissions that new coal or ex  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 (TNSgov) -- The National Governors Association issued the following news release: National Governors Association (NGA) Vice Chair Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards released the following statement as Co-Chairs of the Energy and Infrastructure Working Group. "Governors are working together across party lines and state lines on common sense solutions to safely speed up the process to deliver energy and infrastructure benefits nationwide, and we   more

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Rep.) -- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reintroduced her resolution calling on the Supreme Court to subject itself to the ethics code that applies to all other federal judges. The Code of Conduct for United States Judges, adopted by the Judicial Conference of the United States, an administrative arm of the federal judiciary chaired by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pro  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 (TNSrpt) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release: * * * COP28 president and ADNOC CEO Sultan Al Jaber is putting the interests of the fossil fuel industry above the UN Climate process and is setting COP28 up for failure. * * * The UAE COP presidency started emphasizing the need for countries at this year's U.N. climate change negotiations to commit to phase out fossil fuel emissions, as opposed to phasing out coal, oil, and gas extraction and use. Th  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: On the eve of the G-7 Summit in Japan, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) yesterday introduced the Indo-Pacific Strategic Energy Initiative Act, legislation to promote the financing and development of new energy infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region--with a focus on natural gas--in order to end U.S. allies' dependance on Russian natural gas in the wake  more

HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois, May 20 -- Rep. Bradley Schneider, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) released the following statement in response to the recently released proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect communities and local water sources from coal ash: "EPA's announcement brings a huge victory for the Waukegan community, who were left to bear the burden of coal ash contamination from the NRG Energy coal pla  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, May 20 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release on May 19, 2023: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded North Dakota organizations $2,075,056 as follows: * $1,732,096 to the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services for its Cancer Prevention and Control Program * $300,000 to the Coal Country Community Health Center for its Rural Health Network and Development Program   more

WASHINGTON, May 20 -- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement at a hearing on IRA tax incentives, on May 18, 2023: * * * The Finance Committee meets this morning for our first hearing on America's energy transformation since the Inflation Reduction Act became law. Two years ago, almost to the day, this committee voted on the Clean Energy for America Act. In writing that legislation, our lodestar was developing a technology-neutral, m  more

WASHINGTON, May 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. State Department issued the following fact sheet on May 19, 2023: * * * U.S. Imposes Additional Sanctions and Export Controls on Russia in Coordination with International Partners The United States will continue to take actions against Russia until it ends its brutal and illegal war against Ukraine. The United States is implementing commitments made at the G7 Leaders' Summit to increase costs for Russia and those who support its war effort. Among other  more