MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, June 7 (TNSfund) -- West Virginia University issued the following news: Nearly 30 years after longtime West Virginia University supporter Patricia Bright was first introduced to the artwork of renowned American modernist Blanche Lazzell, she and husband William Bright are helping to bring the Mountain State native's work home to Morgantown with a $1 million gift to the College of Creative Arts. The Brights' contribution supports a $1.5 million fundraising effort to e  more

LONDON, England, June 8 (TNSres) -- BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: The costs of wind power and battery energy storage projects have come down from levels seen in 2022, at the height of global supply chain constraints and the impacts of the Ukraine war. The industry still faces challenges as central banks continue to raise rates and some clean energy manufacturers are not yet passing cost savings on to buyers, but the last few years of turmo  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 8 -- College Sports Communicators issued the following news: Four standouts headline a group of outstanding student-athletes named to the 2023 Academic All-America(R) baseball teams as selected by College Sports Communicators (CSC). Jake Gelof from the University of Virginia, Alex Epp from William Jewell College, Tyler Horvat of Washington & Jefferson College, and Eric Maffie from University of St. Francis (Ill.) are the All-America (R) of the Year honorees for NCAA Divisio  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced $34,248,791 million in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants to support a variety of health care programs, initiatives, and community projects across the state. "Across the state, Illinoisans have access to institutions and programs that are dedicated to health treatmen  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, June 7 (TNSjou) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * How well toxic elements leach out of coal ash depends on the ash's nanoscale composition * * * Everyone knows that burning coal causes air pollution that is harmful to the climate and human health. But the ash left over can often be harmful as well. For example, Duke Energy long stored a liquified form of coal ash in 36 large ponds across the Carolinas. That all changed in  more

LONDON, England, June 8 -- Energy Science and Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal from the Society of Chemical Industry that says it features energy and supply and use, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2023 edition: MODELLING AND ANALYSIS: * Cooling characteristics of a lithium-ion battery module based on flat aluminum heat pipe by considering thermal radiation * Energy consumption calculation of campus buildings based on the law of personnel flow ORIGINAL AR  more

LENEXA, Kansas, June 8 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, near a brownfield site in historic downtown Clinton, Iowa, EPA Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister presented a $2 million ceremonial check to the East Central Intergovernmental Association (ECIA) in Iowa. McCollister was joined by ECIA Project Manager Dawn Danielson, ECIA Director of Special Programs Jennifer Walker, and other regional partners. EPA has selected ECIA to l  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 8 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: GE Vernova's Gas Power business (NYSE: GE) announced today the start of commercial operation of Caithness Energy's 1,875-megawatt Guernsey Power Station in Guernsey County, in Southeastern Ohio, in the heart of the state's Utica and Marcellus shale gas development area. Powered by GE's HA combined cycle equipment, Guernsey Pow  more

TORONTO, Ontario, June 8 (TNSrpt) -- Greenpeace Canada issued the following news release: A new report from Greenpeace Canada shows how the fossil fuel industry-backed assault on banks' climate commitments has only highlighted the urgent need for governments to step in and regulate the financial sector - in 2022, the five biggest Canadian banks provided 20.4 percent of funding that went to fossil fuels from the 60 largest banks in the world, up from 13.8 percent in 2016. The new Greenpeace repo  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release and letter on June 7, 2023: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, publicly praised new water pollution limits proposed by the EPA that could stop 584 million pounds of pollution from entering U.S. waterways. "Everyone deserves to live in a safe environment   more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Washington, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today's Environment, Manufacturing, & Critical Materials Subcommittee hearing titled "Clean Power Plan 2.0: EPA's Latest Attack on America's Electric Reliability." In addition, Energy and Commerce Republicans sent a letter today to  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Washington, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today's Environment, Manufacturing, & Critical Materials Subcommittee hearing titled "Clean Power Plan 2.0: EPA's Latest Attack on America's Electric Reliability." In addition, Energy and Commerce Republicans sent a letter today to  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials, issued the following news release: Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) delivered the following opening statement at today's Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee hearing titled "Clean Power Plan 2.0: EPA's Latest Attack on America's Electric Reliability." Exc  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following opening remarks at a hearing on June 1, 2023, entitled "The Reliability and Resiliency of Electric Service in the United States in Light of Recent Reliability Assessments and Alerts": * * * The Committee will come to order. Today we're going to continue this committee's ongoing oversight of the reliability challenges facing our electric grid. Reliable energy is foundati  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Associated Electric Cooperative CEO David J. Tudor involving a hearing on June 1, 2023, entitled "The Reliability and Resiliency of Electric Service in the United States in Light of Recent Reliability Assessments and Alerts": * * * Chairman Manchin, Ranking Member Barrasso, and members of the Committee: thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. Associated Electric Cooperative O  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Melissa C. Lott, director of research and senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, involving a hearing on June 1, 2023, entitled "The Reliability and Resiliency of Electric Service in the United States in Light of Recent Reliability Assessments and Alerts": * * * Good morning Chairman Manchin, Ra  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by James B. Robb, president and CEO at the North American Electric Reliability Corp., involving a hearing on June 1, 2023, entitled "The Reliability and Resiliency of Electric Service in the United States in Light of Recent Reliability Assessments and Alerts": * * * Introduction The bulk power system (BPS) is at an inflection point. The electric transmission grid is highly reliable and resil  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by PJM Interconnection President and CEO Manu Asthana involving a hearing on June 1, 2023, entitled "The Reliability and Resiliency of Electric Service in the United States in Light of Recent Reliability Assessments and Alerts": * * * Chairman Manchin, Ranking Member Barrasso, and members of the Committee: Thank you for the invitation to participate in this hearing and share PJM's perspective  more

TOKYO, Japan, June 7 (TNSjou) -- Tokyo Institute of Technology issued the following news release: The discovery of Ba2LuAlO5 as a promising proton conductor paints a bright future for protonic ceramic fuel cells, report scientists from Tokyo Tech. Experiments show that this novel material has a remarkably high proton conductivity even without any additional chemical modifications, and molecular dynamics simulations reveal the underlying reasons. These new insights may pave the way to safer and   more

WASHINGTON, June 8 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * Vice President Harris Announces New Initiatives to Strengthen U.S-Caribbean Partnership Vice President Kamala Harris and Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas will host the U.S-Caribbean Leaders Meeting in Nassau, The Bahamas on June 8, 2023. This meeting will build on the Vice President's previous meetings with Caribbean leaders in April 2022, at the June 2022 Summit of the America  more