VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 15 -- The David Suzuki Foundation issued the following news release: Five B.C.-based organizations concur with concerns raised by the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs about substantial deficiencies in Ksi Lisims' application to the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office for a liquefied natural gas project. The David Suzuki Foundation, Sierra Club BC, Stand.earth, the Wilderness Committee and Northwest Institute are calling on the EAO to address the myriad flaws in the  more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 14 -- Ecojustice issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2024: * * * Ecojustice applauds MP Laurel Collins for kicking off the legislative process for a proposed law that, once in force, would ban the export of thermal coal from Canada. The group says that the Bill tabled earlier today by the NDP environment critic, holds the Liberal government to task for a promise they made to voters to ban thermal coal exports by or before 2030. Melanie Snow, governmen  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government issued the following testimony by ex-Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich involving a hearing on Jan. 30,2024, entitled "The Southern Border Crisis: The Constitution and the States": * * * Chairman Luetkemeyer, Ranking Member Beatty, and Members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, thank you for this opport  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Congressman Nathaniel Moran (TX-01), member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, celebrated the passage of his legislation, H.R. 4039, No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act, which prohibits funds to the Department of State or the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to finance international projects in partnership with entities that import products mined, produced, or manufactured i  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Competitive Enterprise Institute President Kent Lassman published an op-ed in the National Review highlighting the failures of the World Economic Forum's climate agenda. In the op-ed, they argue the need for fossil fuels and urge Congress to pass the POWER Act, which Lummis introduced to prohibit any administration from blocking energy and mineral le  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC), a cornerstone of U.S. innovation for testing and demonstration of carbon management technologies established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and NETL in 2009, recently achieved the milestone of performing 150,000 hours of technology testing. Southern Company operates NCCC in Wilsonville, Alabama, through a cooper  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following remarks on Feb. 14, 2024: * * * Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) delivered the following remarks on the House floor when he managed the Rule Debate on H.R. 7176, the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act. As prepared for delivery: "Mr. Speaker, since President Joe Biden took office, he has waged war on American energy independence while supporting policies that have emboldened Vladimir Putin, the  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The Sierra Club issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2024, by Director of Climate Policy Patrick Drupp: * * * At a U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing today, congressional Republicans continued repeating disproven claims about the impact of the Biden administration's efforts to address air pollution from dirty fossil fuel power plants, wrongly alleging the common sense policies will threaten grid reliability. A recent analysis of 2022's Winter Storm   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Feb. 14, 2024: * * * Biden-Harris Administration Releases Annual Agency Equity Action Plans to Further Advance Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government Since Day One, the Biden-Harris Administration has championed an ambitious equity and racial justice agenda to ensure the full and fair participation of all communities in American life. Despite progress being made, e  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The White House issued the following readout of a meeting on Feb. 13, 2024, with county officials on President Biden's Investing in America agenda: * * * On Tuesday, February 13, Lael Brainard, National Economic Advisor, and Tom Perez, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, met with county elected officials to discuss how President Biden's Investing in America agenda is spurring historic investments in clean e  more