COUSHATTA, Louisiana, Oct. 24 -- Louisiana Economic Development posted the following news release: ADA Carbon Solutions, a leading provider of powder activated carbon and subsidiary of Advanced Emissions Solutions, announced it is exploring plans for a potential $251 million expansion of its production facility in Red River Parish. The upgraded facility would introduce a new proprietary process that converts purified coal waste to granular activated carbon used for municipal water purification,  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) recently introduced the Water Quality Certification Improvement Act of 2023. The legislation is cosponsored by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Pete Ricketts (R-NE). The bill amends section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The legislation makes several key clarifications to existing law about the appropriate scope of review for a wat  more

SINGAPORE, Oct. 24 (TNSres) - BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release: Vietnam's long-term goal to phase out the use of coal for power generation by the 2040s and achieve net zero by 2050, faces challenges that arise from its rapid economic growth and increasing power demand. Renewables, and in particular solar, are set to be the cheapest option for Vietnam to meet the country's growing need for electricity, according to a new report published by research firm Bloom  more

CAMARILLO, California, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The California State University Channel Islands campus issued the following news release: The world is in danger of losing almost half of its frogs, salamanders and other amphibians with climate change emerging as a greater threat than ever before. That's according to a major new study co-authored by CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Assistant Professor of Biology Rudi von May and was the cover story for the October issue of the scientific journal, "Nature  more

LONDON, England, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- Friends of the Earth UK issued the following news release: * * * Just 10% of funds hold over 50% of LGPS fossil fuel investments * * * pound sterling16 billion of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) is invested in the fossil fuel industry, according to new analysis by Platform and Friends of the Earth. Despite clear guidance [1] that investors should not fund new oil and gas projects, local councils are still funding fossil fuel expansion, with ov  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, recently penned an editorial in Foreign Affairs about his forthcoming Foreign Pollution Fee legislation. A Foreign Pollution Fee, coupled with permitting reform, would hold China accountable, expand domestic production, increase opportunities for the American family, and decrease global greenhouse gas (GHG)  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Desiree Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions. * * * By Zach Winn In a recent podcast interview with MIT President Sally Kornbluth, Associate Professor Desiree Plata described her childhood pastime of roaming the backyards and businesses of her grandmother's hometown of Gray, Maine. Through her wanderings, Plata noticed   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL is a partner with major industry groups on three regional hydrogen hub projects selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate the commercial-scale deployment of low-cost, clean hydrogen - a valuable energy product that can be produced with zero or near-zero carbon emissions and is crucial to meeting clean energy goals. Funded by the  more

SUDAN, Texas, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2023: After last week's vote by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, the Tolk coal plant in the Texas Panhandle will close down four years earlier than its previous retirement date. Tolk Station, which is not part of the ERCOT grid and supplies power to customers in Texas and New Mexico, will stop burning coal by 2028 under the agreement - a move that will likely save millions of gallons of g  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2023: The Surface Transportation Board today announced the appointment of six new members to the Board's Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee (RETAC). The new members are Bryan Boaz, Sean Brewer, Sandra Ellis, Leila Ford, Edward Quinn, and Robert Zmudka. All new members have been appointed to serve three-year terms ending in September 2026. Mr. Brya  more