ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 5 -- The city of Albuquerque issued the following news on Dec. 4, 2023: Tonight, the Albuquerque City Council overrode the Mayor's vetoes of O-23-88 and R-23-176. R-23-176 put's a moratorium on the current Air Quality Board's Hearing of the HEEI environmental justice rule effective immediately. The Administration and the Environmental Health Department cannot spend any City resources on this hearing including personnel, City finances for rental of space, court repo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Energy Exascale Earth System Model team's Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model won the Association for Computing Machinery's 2023 Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate. Credit: SC23 A 19-member team of scientists from across the national laboratory complex won the Association for Computing Machinery's 2023 Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate Modeling fo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF11991) on the U.S. Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon on Dec. 4, 2023, by military ground forces specialist Jim Monke Andrew Feickert. Here are excerpts: * * * The U.S. Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) What Is the Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon? The Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) (Figure 1), with a reported range of 1,725 miles, consists of a ground-launched  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: This week, senior representatives of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Cabinet Office of Japan, and the Ministry of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea (ROK) signed a Trilateral Framework on cooperation in science and innovation. Under the Framework, the participants will develop a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) in   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Peter Kobos, an economist and manager at Sandia National Laboratories, has been selected as a senior fellow of the United States Association for Energy Economics. Kobos defines energy economics as the science of storytelling, using data to determine which energy technologies can perform as needed and which technologies are cost-effective enough to thrive in the mar  more

CHICO, California, Dec. 7 -- California State University's Chico Campus issued the following news: By Sean Murphy Quantum computing has piqued the interest of physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists with its potential to solve some of the world's most complex problems faster and more accurately than ever. A grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) puts Chico State and collaborators from CSU San Marcos at the CSU's leading edge in preparing students for a quantum computing future  more

EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 8 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's El Paso campus issued the following news release: The University of Texas at El Paso has been awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) to unlock Earth's subsurface for two potential climate change solutions: the storage of carbon dioxide and the generation of energy. The UTEP-led partnership, which includes Florida State University, the University of Utah, Sandia National Laboratories and Alma Energy LLC, wil  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following joint fact sheet on Dec. 8, 2023: * * * Today, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) National Security Advisor Cho Tae-yong chaired the inaugural U.S.-ROK Next Generation Critical and Emerging Technologies (CET) Dialogue in Seoul. The launch of the Next Generation CET Dialogue fulfills a commitment that President Biden and President Yoon made during the April 2023 State Visit to upgrade b  more