BRISTOL, England, March 26 -- Environmental Research Letters, a journal that says it covers environmental science, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2024 edition: Perspectives: * A plausible emergence of new convection sites in the Arctic Ocean in a warming climate * When forests hold their breath: will increasing drought further disrupt carbon sequestration? * Achieving wheat self-sufficiency in Brazil * A better integration of health and economic impact ass  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy and Regulatory Affairs issued the following testimony by Travis Fisher, director of energy and environmental policy at the Cato Institute, involving a hearing on March 12, 2024, entitled "The Power Struggle: Examining the Reliability and Security of America's Electrical Grid": * * * Chairman Fallon, Ranking Member Bush, and distinguished members of the subcommittee: Thank you for the   more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy and Regulatory Affairs issued the following testimony by Jonathon E. Monken, a principal at Converge Strategies LLC, involving a hearing on March 12, 2024, entitled "The Power Struggle: Examining the Reliability and Security of America's Electrical Grid": * * * Chairman Fallon, Ranking Member Bush and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak with y  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 26 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Last week in PennLive, East Region President of Cordia Mark Schneider praised Governor Josh Shapiro's new energy plan that would create 15,000 energy jobs, lower utility bills for Pennsylvanians, and take action to address carbon pollution. After unveiling his plan, Governor Shapiro visited Cordia Energy's Harrisburg location and joined Mark Schneider and other industry  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Joint Economic Committee issued the following testimony by Michael Faulkender, chief economist at the America First Policy Institute, involving a hearing on March 12, 2024, entitled "The Fiscal Situation of the United States": * * * Vice Chairman Schweikert and Members of the Committee, Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the unsustainable fiscal situation facing the United States. I have been a finance professor for more than twenty years, at the Univ  more

LONDON, England, March 26 -- The Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques, published research articles on the following topics in its March 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 39, Issue 3): * Atomic spectrometry update: review of advances in the analysis of clinical and biological materials, foods and beverages * Detection of tritium using ultrafast laser-induce  more

BRISTOL, England, March 26 -- Measurement Science and Technology, a journal that says it features measurement techniques and associated instrumentation, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 35, No. 4). Here are excerpts: Editorial: * Data-powered NDE for smart structure manufacturing and maintenance Topical Reviews: * Attention mechanism guided sparse filtering for mechanical intelligent fault diagnosis under variable speed condition * Recen  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement: * * * Today, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the below statement on the U.S. Treasury Department's proposed guidance for the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) energy community bonus. The bonus was included by Chairman Manchin in the IRA to drive investment to energy commun  more