WASHINGTON, June 28 (TNSpp) -- AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons) issued the following news release: (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Missouri * Kansas City: MY REGION WINS! * The grant will turn a formerly blighted vacant lot into a community garden and interactive art installation. Capacity-Building Microgrant * Poplar Bluff: Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce * The project will add a connector trail for walking and biking, enabling residents to get to   more

WASHINGTON, July 1 (TNStalk) -- The AFL-CIO issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on the proposed rule to protect mineworkers from silica exposure: For far too long, coal miners, metal and nonmetal miners, and other workers on mining sites have fallen ill and have died from debilitating silicosis as a result of being exposed to dangerous levels of respirable silica. These exposure levels have risen with the advent of rock-pulverizin  more

BOONE, North Carolina, July 1 (TNSgov) -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: Today, the Biden Administration's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) released a long-delayed draft rule to protect coal miners from exposure to respirable silica -- the principal cause of the resurgence of deadly black lung disease. The draft rule was announced shortly after six senators and 28 groups sent letters urging its release amid bureaucratic delays. Advocates appla  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: Following repeated calls from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), today the U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposal to update federal standards to better protect miners in Ohio and around the country from health hazards related to exposure to respirable crystalline silica, or silica dust, which causes Black Lung Disease. "For generations America's coal miners risked their lives and their   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 1 (TNSgov) -- The Climate Justice Alliance issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: Scores of organizers and community members from across the country descended upon today's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public hearing to give testimony in support of newly proposed rules to remove the loophole that allows energy companies to poison communities with 500 million tons of toxic coal ash dumped in unlined pits across the country. That includes 88 coal   more

WASHINGTON, July 1 (TNStalk) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on June 30, 2023: * * * Trade Policy Still Matters to Renewing U.S. Leadership By James Wallar National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's landmark speech on April 27 on renewing the United States' economic leadership presented a framework to link the administration's domestic and international economic policies. In contrast to other sections, the passages on international trade   more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued the following news release: Federal investigations, scrutiny around Justice's health, Justice failing to give coal miners the health benefits they're owed, and attempts to cover up a barrage of financial scandals, here's what you might have missed this week in West Virginia's "messy," "costly," and "bruising intraparty fight:" * Jim Justice defended the "Do It For Babydog" vaccine lottery sweepstakes after federal invest  more

DURHAM, North Carolina, July 1 (TNSper) -- Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment issued the following news: Avner Vengosh has been named Nicholas Chair of Environmental Quality, effective July 1. Vengosh, a faculty member at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment since 2005, is internationally recognized for his research on water and soil contamination linked to coal ash, fracking wastewater, hexavalent chromium, uranium, lithium and other harmful anthropogenic or   more

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 1 -- Arizona Public Service Co. issued the following news: Four organizations serving Arizona communities impacted by the ongoing retirement of coal-fired power plants are the first to receive economic development grants from the new Utility Grant Funding Program. The City of Show Low, City of St. Johns, St. Johns Unified School District and Grow Arizona will each receive $25,000 towards their missions from Arizona Public Service (APS), Salt River Project (SRP) and Tucson  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine released the following statement after the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) within the Department of Labor released new silica standards for miners: "Our coal miners have worked tirelessly to power this nation, often under dangerous conditions. We owe it to them to protect their health and safety. That's why I joined Senators Manchin, Brown, Casey,  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), John Fetterman (D-PA), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) released the following statement on the Department of Labor's (DOL) proposal by its Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to amend current federal standards to better protect the nation's miners from health hazards related to exposure to respirab  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, July 1 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, announced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $617,648 to the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (NDDEQ) to support the application or implementation of an EPA-approved state program for the control of coal combustion residuals (CCR). The CCR program will support d  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. NOR 42179) entitled "Navajo Transitional Energy Co. LLC V. BNSF Railway Co.": * * * On April 14, 2023, Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC (NTEC), filed a complaint and petition for declaratory order alleging that BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) has breached its common carrier obligation, failed to provide adequate car service, and engaged in unreasonable practic  more

BROOKWOOD, Alabama, July 1 (TNSgov) -- The United Mine Workers of America issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Administrative Law Judge Melissa M. Oliverio yesterday issued a ruling that found Warrior Met Coal violated national labor law in its bargaining conduct before, during and after the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) nearly two-year strike. Judge Oliverio ordered the company to bargain in good faith immediately. "We appreciate th  more