WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts record-high natural gas consumption in the United States for electricity generation in July and August as another hot summer increases demand for air conditioning. In its July Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA expects about 4% more U.S. electricity generation from natural gas in July and August 2023 than in the  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news on July 11, 2023: * * * EMSL user Steven Allison uncovers soil microbes and how they change from events like wildfires or drought. * * * On episode five of Bonding Over Science, host Dawn Stringer chats with Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Earth System Science Steven Allison about how he uses Environmental Molecular Sciences Labo  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: The planets bear the names of Roman gods, which puts Cathy Plesko and Wendy Caldwell in exalted company, as each of these Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary-defense scientists now has an asteroid named after them. The Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature published the names June 21 on behalf of the International Astronomical Union, dubbing asteroid 32105 "Plesk  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Creating a net-zero carbon emissions power sector and economy is an immense endeavor that requires a host of intricate technologies and applications, and the CO2-Locate database is a centralized platform that allows users to quickly and accurately obtain the data they need. Now published on the Energy Data eXchange(R) (EDX), CO2-Locate is one of several innovativ  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on July 12, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced today that it will be stepping down as Secretariat of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), an organization dedicated to fostering collaboration to advance carbon capture and storage technologies. "It has been a tremendous honor and privilege for the Departmen  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Acres consumed by wildfires have nearly doubled in last few decades * * * Wildfires today burn twice as much tree cover worldwide as they did 20 years ago. More than 22.9 million acres of tree cover were lost globally in 2021 due to wildfires compared to 11.9 million acres lost in 2003, according to figures from the World Resources Institu  more