WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on June 16, 2023: In case you missed it, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) published an op-ed in The Messenger today highlighting their bipartisan Countering Economic Coercion Act that would help the U.S. support partners and allies facing economic bullying by foreign adversaries. The bill would equip the president with new tools to reduce the impact of economic coercion by stre  more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, June 15 (TNSjou) -- The Marine Biological Laboratory issued the following news: * * * * Share Marine Biological Laboratory | Life Below Our Feet: Team Discovers Microbes Thriving in Groundwater, Producing Oxygen in the Dark on Facebook * Share Marine Biological Laboratory | Life Below Our Feet: Team Discovers Microbes Thriving in Groundwater, Producing Oxygen in the Dark on Twitter * Share Marine Biological Laboratory | Life Below Our Feet: Team Discovers Microbes   more

WASHINGTON, June 16 (TNSgov) -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Today, a coalition of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to enforce the Regional Haze Rule required by the Clean Air Act. Despite its mandate to approve or reject state haze plans within 18 months, EPA has failed to act on Regional Haze plans submitted by Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, O  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 (TNSgov) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: * * * In response to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speech, Oil Change International campaigners said: David Tong, Global Industry lead at Oil Change International, said: "UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered an extraordinary speech in New York today, finally proclaiming the unspoken truths about the oil and gas industry. He has named the oil and gas companies that a  more

WASHINGTON, June 16 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Today, a coalition of environmental organizations filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to enforce the Regional Haze Rule required by the Clean Air Act. Despite its mandate to approve or reject state haze plans within 18 months, EPA has failed to act on Regional Haze plans submitted by Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. Th  more

KANSAS CITY, Kansas, June 16 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Evergy, the largest electric utility in Kansas and the second largest in Missouri, filed its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) with Kansas and Missouri regulators today. There's not a lot of good news for customers who care about clean energy and climate change. In Kansas, Evergy now proposes two combined-cycle gas plants in the late 2020s. Additionally, the utility lowered its total solar  more

LANSING, Michigan, June 16 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Just days after wildfire haze caused Detroit to experience the second worst air quality in the world, a coalition of organizations is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address another kind of traveling haze that also has roots in climate change yet pollutes our skies all year. The Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, and National Parks Conservation Association fil  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 16 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: Just days after wildfire haze plagued much of North America, a coalition of organizations is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address another kind of traveling haze that also has roots in climate change yet pollutes our skies all year. Today, the Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, and National Parks Conservation Association filed a lawsuit against EPA for failing t  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 17 -- SolarPower Europe issued the following news release: SolarPower Europe has issued the following statement on the widely reported REV6 of the compromise draft on the EU Electricity Market Revision. The text proposes an exception to the CO2 threshold of capacity renumeration mechanisms (CRMs) for existing energy generation capacities started before 2019. This means CRMs - which ultimately come from consumers - could now be used to finance coal. Naomi Chevillard, He  more

TRIANGLE, Virginia, June 17 (TNStalk) -- The United Mine Workers of America issued the following statement on June 16, 2023: * * * United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts issued the following statement today: "The National Council of the Coal Miners Political Action Committee (COMPAC) of the United Mine Workers of America voted June 13 to make no endorsement at this time for any candidate running for President of the United States. "We understand that o  more

HOBART, Australia, June 17 -- The Wilderness Society-Australia posted the following news release from on June 10, 2023: Documents obtained via FOI have revealed the Federal Government significantly downplayed the impact of Australia's deforestation activities at a crucial global agriculture minister's conference in Berlin earlier this year. Just one month before the meeting took place, the European Union agreed on a new law that will prevent the import of commodities linked to deforestation int  more