WASHINGTON, June 13 -- ACS Applied Energy Materials, a journal that says it covers all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its June 12, 2023 edition: Reviews: * Ionic Transport through the Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Review from First-Principles Perspectives Articles: * Polyethylene Glycol Dimethyl Et  more

DENVER, Colorado, June 13 -- The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment issued the following news release: Apprenticeship Colorado at the Office of the Future of Work (OFW) within the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) is pleased to announce over $699,670 has been awarded in grant funds to 14 organizations across the state to support the growth of registered apprenticeship opportunities. These funds are the second cycle of the Scale-Up Grant Program, a multi-round funding o  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, June 13 -- Duke Energy issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: * * * * Transaction expected to close by year-end 2023 * Duke Energy to focus on significant regulated clean energy growth opportunities * * * Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) today announced it has reached an agreement to sell its unregulated utility scale Commercial Renewables business to Brookfield Renewable ("Brookfield"), one of the world's largest owners and operators of renewable power and cl  more

BADEN, Switzerland, June 13 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: GE Vernova's Gas Power business (NYSE: GE) and Northern Lights JV DA, (NL), a Norwegian company developing infrastructure for cross-border CO2 transport and storage in Europe today announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will enable acceleration and development of end-to-end carbon capture and storage (CCS) solu  more

AMMAN, Jordan, June 13 (TNSrpt) -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: * * * * An automated cash transfer program in Jordan developed with significant financing from the World Bank is undermined by errors, discriminatory policies, and stereotypes about poverty. * Many people in Jordan are not getting financial support because their hardships fall outside an algorithm's faulty model of poverty. * The World Bank and the Jordanian government should phase out t  more

WASHINGTON, June 12 -- Inorganic Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it features bioinorganic, organometallic, solid-state, materials and nanoscale chemistry, energy and photochemistry, catalysis, theory and computation, published research articles on the following topics in its June 12, 2023 edition: Featured Articles: * A Series of Ni Complexes Based on a Versatile ATCUN-Like Tripeptide Scaffold to Decipher Key Parameters for Superoxide Dismutase   more

LONDON, England, June 13 -- Materials Chemistry Frontiers, a peer-reviewed journal from the Chinese Chemical Society that says it focuses on the synthesis and chemistry of exciting new materials and the development of improved fabrication techniques, published research articles on the following topics in its June 21, 2023 edition: Review Article: * Triplet-triplet annihilation mediated photon upconversion solar energy systems * Light outcoupling strategies in oriented perovskite light-emitti  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, June 13 -- Portland General Electric, an electric utility company, issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: As PGE works to achieve our 2030 and 2040 clean energy targets, we're investing in the reliability, performance, and environmental quality of some of our oldest non-emitting resources: our hydropower plants. More than a century ago, hydropower played a critical role in helping electrify the Pacific Northwest. Today, hydroelectric projects continue to provide c  more

ALBANY, New York, June 13 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the $10 million Commercial and Industrial Accelerated Efficiency Program. This program assists large energy-intensive entities in their efforts to reduce on-site consumption of fossil fuels through energy efficiency and electrification actions. This program will provide up to $5 million per project that is proposed to be completed and operational   more

ALBANY, New York, June 13 -- The New York Department of Public Service issued the text of the following letter on June 12, 2023: * * * To: David Campbell, SunnyMac Solar, LLC, 201 Woodcrest Rd, West Chester, PA, 19382, davidc@sunnymacsolar.com RE: SunnyMac Solar, LLC - 2022 DER Annual Compliance Dear David Campbell: Thank you for your recent submittal pursuant to Section 3F of the New York State DPS's Uniform Business Practices for Distributed Energy Resource Suppliers (UBP-DERS). This lett  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature: * * * PNNL scientists investigate the promising properties of a common, Earth-abundant salt * * * In a world of continuously warmer temperatures, a growing consensus demands that energy sources have zero, or next-to-zero, carbon emissions. That means growing beyond coal, oil, and natural gas by getting more energy from renewable sources. One of the most pro  more

FARMINGTON, New Mexico, June 13 -- Public Service of New Mexico issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: Today, PNM announced the official transfer of critical water infrastructure from the now closed San Juan Generating Station to the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project for the delivery of life-changing drinking water to our Navajo communities that continue to face dire water supply scarcity. Ground water levels for the City of Gallup and surrounding Navajo communities have dropped   more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks on June 12, 2023, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the U.S.-India Business Council's India Ideas Summit: * * * SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you, everyone. (Applause.) Please - thank you, thank you very much. (Applause.) Please, take a seat. I have to say I've never really gotten used to people standing up when I enter a room. I always say look, if you really need the exercise, go ahead. And I'm honored to be here tonigh  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism issued the following testimony by Jeanne Pryor, deputy assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for the Middle East, involving a hearing on May 31, 2023, entitled "FY 2024 Budget Request for the Middle East and North Africa": * * * The past year has been marked by severe and increasing pressures on the countries of the Middle East a  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 (TNStalk) -- The Solar Energy Industries Association issued the following statement on June 12, 2023: * * * Following is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on the House attempt to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act: "We urge Congress to remove the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA's) solar and storage credits from the House Ways and Means tax package. "In less than a year these pro-business, pro-growth po  more

RIVERSIDE, California, June 13 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Tiny "dots" transform light, enabling big advancements * * * A new material, created at the little-explored intersection of organic and inorganic chemistry, could not only enable more powerful solar panels, but it could also usher in the next generation of cancer treatments. Described in a Nature Chemistry journal paper published today, the composite is made of ultra-tin  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 13 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has created a new class of materials that can absorb low energy light and transform it into higher energy light. The new material is composed of ultra-small silicon nanoparticles and organic molecules closely related to ones used in OLED TVs. This new composite efficiently moves electrons between its or  more

SEATTLE, Washington, June 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Nick Brown, issued the following news release on June 12, 2023: A 57-year-old Paradise Valley, Arizona man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to nine years in prison and a $1 million fine for an eight-year tax fraud scheme that resulted in more than $50 million in illegal tax refunds, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Charles St. George Kirkland pleaded guilty in January 2023 to three  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing on June 12, 2023, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everyone. Q: Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Happy Monday. I do have a couple things at the top. So, today we mark seven years since the tragic Pulse nightclub shooting. In the middle of Pride Month in 2016, our nation suffer  more