WASHINGTON, March 2 (TNSres) -- The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation issued the following news on March 1, 2024: Today, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Chair Sara C. Bronin released her Report and Recommendations on the Application and Interpretation of Federal Historic Preservation Standards to the ACHP, pursuant to the agency's statutory responsibility to review and recommend improvements to federal, state, and local historic preservation policies. The report examin  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- ACS Catalysis, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features heterogeneous, molecular and biocatalysis from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its March 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 14, Issue 5): Reviews: * Beyond Hydrogen Storage: Metal Hydrides for Catalysis Letters: * Surface Strain Effect on Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction of Pt-Based Intermetallics * Indium-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling Enabled Efficient   more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 2 (TNSres) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: Today, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California has surpassed 100,000 public and shared private electric vehicle chargers installed statewide, just weeks after unprecedented funding was approved to build a bigger, better network of charging and refueling infrastructure for zero-emission cars, trucks and buses - the most extensive network in the nation. This is  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, along with Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.), announced a $75,320 grant to the City of Seaford through the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. The grant will allow the City of Seaford to perform solar lighting retrofits on 52 existing streetlights in two outdoor public spaces. The EECBG Pr  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Catholic University issued the following news: This summer, the University will officially be home to the D.C. area's largest solar array, one that NBC4 in Washington called big "enough to fill 19 football fields." The project's sheer enormity on 25 acres of previously undeveloped land on the West Campus has left many speechless. "Witnessing this large-scale project in development helped my understanding of the process of construction and management," said junior mechan  more

BAR HARBOR, Maine, March 2 -- College of the Atlantic issued the following news: College of the Atlantic is among a group of towns, school districts, and other organizations purchasing long-term renewable energy from the 14,000+ panel facility, which will help the school meet its goals of being fossil fuel free by 2030. An abandoned gravel pit in Hampden is the new home of a community solar farm. In collaboration with Wishcamper Companies Inc., ReVision Energy's Wishcamper Hampden solar array  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 2 -- Save the Sound issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Today the Connecticut Coalition for Climate Action voiced its support for Raised Bill HB 5004, a Connecticut General Assembly Environment Committee Bill. The Coalition, a broad-based group of more than 40 health care providers, scientists, environmental organizations, religious groups, and others representing more than 300,000 members, was formed one year ago to address the climate crisis and e  more

LANSING, Michigan, March 2 -- The Environmental Law and Policy Center issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: On Friday, March 1st, 2024, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) released its final decision in the Consumers Energy 2024 rate case. In its decision, the MPSC approved a rate increase of just over $92 million, less than half of Consumers Energy's originally requested $216 million. The MPSC approved a return on equity of 9.9% and rate of return of 5.86%. The Clean   more

BASEL, Switzerland, March 2 -- The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features ecological burdens and impacts throughout the stages of a product system, from raw material acquisition through production and use to final disposal, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2024 edition (Vol. 29, Issue 3): * Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis of different walling materials with an environmental approach (compar  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, March 2 -- The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, a peer-reviewed journal from American Institute of Physics that says it covers renewable and sustainable energy relevant to the physical science and engineering communities, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 1): ARTICLES: - Bioenergy and Biofuels * Tungstoborate heteropolyacid-catalyzed lignin liquefaction: Product yield and component distribution   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 2 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: Though solar farming is not a novel concept in renewable energy, it is fairly new to the state of Louisiana. With the advancement of renewable resources come questions about how they will affect humans and the environment. LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Chris Kees understands this curiosity and is working alongside LSU School of Landscape Architecture Professor Fabiana Tr  more

LANSING, Michigan, March 2 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved a more than $92 million increase in rates for electric customers of Consumers Energy Co., including significant emphasis on investments needed to improve reliability (Case No. U-21389). The $92,009,000 increase is 57.4% lower than the $216 million rate increase the utility sought in its initial application. Consumers late  more

ALBANY, New York, March 2 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the State has conditionally awarded two offshore wind projects from its fourth offshore wind solicitation - a planned 810-megawatt project, Empire Wind 1, (developed by Equinor) and Sunrise Wind, a planned 924-megawatt project (developed by Orsted and Eversource). The competitively selected projects will create more than 800 near-term family-susta  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center issued the following feature story: * * * More than 600 industry professionals, scientists, managers, and students gathered in Providence, Rhode Island, for the 2024 Northeast Aquaculture Conference and Expo and Milford Aquaculture Seminar. * * * The joint 25th Northeast Aquaculture Conference and Expo and 43rd Milford Aquaculture Seminar was held in Providence, Rhode Island, Janua  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: Today, Congresswomen Nikema Williams (GA-05) and Katie Porter (CA-47) introduced the Solar Use Network (SUN) Act to spur development of renewable energy infrastructure and electric vehicle charging stations along interstate highways. Their proposal would convert unused rights-of-way, like interstate medians, into valued community assets that can be used for renewable energy projects. Reps  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Rep. Katie Porter, D-California, issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: Today, Reps. Katie Porter (D-CA) and Nikema Williams (D-GA) introduced the Solar Use Network (SUN) Act to spur development of renewable energy infrastructure and electric vehicle charging stations along interstate highways. Their proposal would convert unused right-of-ways, like interstate medians, into valued community assets that can be used for renewable energy projects. "Californians  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Student Freedom Initiative, an organization that says it aims to reduce the wealth gap through education, issued the following news release: Today, Student Freedom Initiative is pleased to announce that 10 schools were awarded $100,000 each from the Department of Energy through its HBCU Clean Energy Education Prize--Partnership Track, which focuses on forming key partnerships between HBCUs and other universities, institutions, government agencies, and leaders in the clean  more

TORONTO, Ontario, March 2 -- The University of Toronto issued the following news: Preventing nerve damage caused by chemotherapy. Using artificial intelligence to help people who are Deaf communicate with machines through sign language. Accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles in urban communities. These are some of the innovations being advanced by members of the University of Toronto's thriving entrepreneurship community. Ranked among the top five university business incubators in the  more

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, March 2 -- Indiana University issued the following news release: According to the United Nations, global surface temperatures have increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period in the last two millennia. The years 2015 to 2019 were the five warmest years on record, and 2010 to 2019 was the warmest decade on record. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues humans are facing, and since 2018, Indiana University students have been at the most important  more

BRISTOL, England, March 2 (TNSres) -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * An innovative probe which can operate in temperatures as high as molten lava has been created by researchers. * * * The team from the University of Bristol and CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique in France have designed and successfully tested rotary blades for generating flow in molten silicon, crucial for industries such as steel or nuclear which rely on molten metal control and impur  more

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, March 2 -- The U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan posted the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) introduced a new initiative to support Uzbekistan's clean energy objectives - the development of a Green Hydrogen Hub. Green hydrogen is defined as hydrogen energy developed by using renewable energy resources. Hydrogen is emerging as one of the leading options for storing and potentially transporting energy fro  more