WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment issued the following news release: The Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) has awarded $375,000 in Lyft Bikes & Scooters, LLC (Lyft) for a Solar Charging Station Pilot Project that will upgrade four capital Bikeshare (CaBi) docking stations with solar panels to allow for charging of e-bikes while docked. This will increase the available of e-bikes to users in the District. CaBi is metro DC's bikeshare  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The Electrification Coalition, a group that facilitates the deployment of plug-in electric vehicles, issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the long-anticipated GHG Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles - Phase 3 rule (HDV rule). The rule is an important step to accelerating the transition of heavy-duty vehicles in the U.S. away from oil. These efforts to reduce oil's monopoly on our   more

FAIRFAX, Virginia, March 30 -- Fairfax County Economic Development Authority issued the following newsletter: * * * FCEDA to Host Exporting Workshop + Weekly Business News Digest * * * The Aerospace Corporation Relocates Corporate Headquarters to Fairfax County At a time of significant change in the space domain's strategic environment, The Aerospace Corporation announced that it has relocated its corporate headquarters to Chantilly, Va., from El Segundo, Calif. The shift will bring Aerospa  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: From reproductive freedom to the Affordable Care Act, health care was front and center over the past week across the country. In the face of Donald Trump's attacks on health care and plans to raise costs, Americans across the country celebrated the anniversary of the ACA, and President Biden and Vice President Harris visited Raleigh, North Carolina to lay out their plan to make health care more affordab  more

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, March 30 -- Indiana University issued the following news release: As the global economy becomes greener in response to the threat of climate change, Indiana University is connecting students to the critical skills employers are seeking to meet sustainability targets. Through innovative programs like McKinney Climate Fellows, IU students are seizing the opportunity to be sustainability leaders before they've even completed their degree. Nearly 200 fellows have helped India  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued Revenue Procedure 2024-19 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-24-19.pdf) to provide guidance for owners of certain solar or wind facilities built in connection with low-income communities. The guidance issued today provides important clarifying changes to the application and docu  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: As the total solar eclipse on April 8 draws near, the U.S. National Science Foundation will be celebrating this celestial occasion -- which won't be visible from North America again until 2044 -- by sponsoring educational activities and experiments across the country. In addition to the previously announced events at the Fair Park Cotton Bowl(r) Stadium in Dallas, the Solar Eclipse Festival on th  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, March 30 -- Physical Review D, a journal that says it covers particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology from the American Physical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its March 15, 2024, edition (Vol. 109, Issue 6). Here are excerpts: LETTERS: * Constraints on the velocity of gravitational waves from the NANOGrav 15-year data set * Implications for the non-Gaussianity of curvature perturbation from pulsar timing arrays * Spin-down of a   more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, secured more than $100 million for 101 New Hampshire projects in the final government funding bills for fiscal year (FY) 2024. The federal investments, appropriated through the Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) process, will go towards a range of Granite State priorities throughout the state, including   more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release: Secretary Blinken applauds the Department of State winners of the Federal Energy and Water Management Awards, who were honored in a ceremony on March 27 at the Department of Energy's 2024 Energy Exchange conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Department of State had three of the winning teams selected from across the federal government for their outstanding contributions in the areas of clean energy and en  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: Program provides up to 20-percentage point credit boost for projects in low-income communities Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued procedural guidance for the 2024 program year of the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program under Section 48(e) of the Internal Revenue Code. Treasury also announced the program would open for applications during the s  more

RIVERSIDE, California, March 30 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Statisticians curb uncertainty in climate change models * * * A new study greatly reduces uncertainty in climate change predictions, a move economists say could save the world trillions in adaptations for a hotter future. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, considers dozens of climate models from different countries that differ in the magnitude of  more