WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- Oil Change International issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: Today, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) Leaders' Joint Statement. The leaders convened the community's first summit at the end of the three-day ASEAN-Japan 50th anniversary commemorative summit held in Tokyo f  more

BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 19 -- Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features the processing of biogenic materials for energy and chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2023 edition (Vol. 13, Issue 18): * The role of magnetic nanoparticles in dark fermentation * Simultaneous treatment of fruit juice industry wastewater and single-cell protein synthesis using purple non-sulfur bacteria * Centrifugal partition chromatograph  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security issued the following testimony by Anne Bradbury, president and CEO of the American Exploration and Production Council, involving a hearing on Dec. 5, 2023, entitled "America's Future: Leading a New Era of Energy Dominance, Security and Environmental Stewardship": * * * Chairman Duncan, Ranking Member DeGette, and distinguished members of the committee: Thank you for the invitation to speak h  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services issued the following testimony by Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, involving a hearing on Dec. 5, 2023, entitled "The Importance of Protecting Female Athletics and Title IX": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony about the Department of Education's ("Department's") proposed regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendment  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Energy Research issued the following agency statement on Dec. 18, 2023: * * * COP28 Ends * * * Key Takeaways 1 The U.N.'s annual Conference of the Parties (COP 28) has ended after 70,000-plus attendees met to discuss "transitioning" the world away from fossil fuels, which supply 80 percent of the world's energy and their consumption this year is forecast to break records. 2 Countries pledged to wean their economies off fossil fuels in a "ju  more

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- St Petersburg University issued the following news: Restorers from St Petersburg University together with their colleagues from the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Hermitage Museum have analysed artefacts of the Xiongnu people who lived before the 1st century A.D. The belt buckles found in the Republic of Tyva turned out to have been crafted of boghead coal and inlaid with mother-of-pearl,   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- World Wildlife Fund issued the following statement on Dec. 18, 2023: * * * Last week, the UNFCCC released the cover decision from COP28 in Dubai. In response, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released the following statement from Marcene Mitchell, senior vice president of climate change: For the first time, the final decision of the UNFCCC COP28 contains a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels. While this provides a long-awaited acknowledgment that the burning of coa  more