SINGAPORE, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: * * * New analysis led by RMI assesses the climate impact of closing a Philippines coal plant 10 years early and replacing it with renewable energy, via the Coal to Clean Crediting Initiative (CCCI) Elizabeth Yee, Executive Vice President of The Rockefeller Foundation, Eric Francia, President & CEO of ACEN Corporation, announce the CCCI update during Ecosperity Week * * * ACEN Cor  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, April 18 -- The Aluminum Association issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: The Aluminum Association applauded today's announcement by the White House calling on the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to triple existing Section 301 tariff levels for Chinese imports of aluminum and steel from current levels of 7.5%. The Aluminum Association has consistently advocated for an increase in the Section 301 tariffs on aluminum imports from China as the most appropriate  more

NORTON, Virginia, April 18 -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: Yesterday the Biden administration's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced that it finalized a rule to protect miners from respirable silica -- a significant driver of the resurgence of black lung disease in Central Appalachia. The rule maintains the provision in the draft rule that creates a separate, enforceable silica standard and cuts the amount of silica dust a miner can be expos  more

GLADSTONE, Australia, April 18 -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issued the following transcript of a news conference on April 17, 2024, in Gladstone: * * * RIMAS KIRIOZIS, MANAGING DIRECTOR ALPHA HPA: My name is Rimas Kiriozis. I'm the Managing Director of Alpha HPA. On behalf of our HPA, our directors, our shareholders, our staff and our community. I'd like to sincerely thank the Prime Minister, Mr. Albanese and Minister Madeleine King for this announcement today, the major finan  more

DENVER, Colorado, April 18 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: Bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senator Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, that would improve Colorado's water supply by implementing several recommendations made by the Colorado River Drought Task Force cleared the Senate today. "Water is Colorado's most precious natural resource and as we face an uncertain future with ongoing drought and more demands, we must continue to act to secure o  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: Today, advocates with the Hillsborough Affordable Energy Coalition requested that the Hillsborough County Commission intervene on behalf of their constituents against a recently filed TECO rate hike that, if approved, would raise the average bill to $160.93 a month in January 2025, an increase of 62% since January 2019 -- well over twice the rate of inflation over that period. At today's meeti  more

NEW YORK, April 16 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news: Last year was the hottest on record, with extreme weather events in many corners of the globe. It was also the year in which countries reached a landmark agreement at the UN Climate Conference (COP28) to begin "transitioning away from fossil fuels". If governments are to comply with this agreement and avert global climate collapse, there cannot be any new expansion of coal, oil and gas production. Thi  more

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 18 -- The International Institute for Sustainable Development issued the following news release on April 16, 2024: Finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 major economies are meeting in Washington on Thursday on the sidelines of World Bank and IMF spring meetings. High on the agenda for these events is the need to mobilize trillions of dollars of investment in the transition to clean energy. "Following the historic outcome at COP 28 to transition away   more

MUNICH, Germany, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * The Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials will explore methods for producing, utilising, and recycling materials in a climate-friendly way * * * Understanding and managing global change is a task to which the Max Planck Society is committed. This is also reflected in the reorientation of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung. The Dusseldorf-based institute has been investigating how to  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 17 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following Q&A with Claire Walsh associate director of policy at J-PAL Global: * * * Since 2020, K-CAI has innovated and tested climate policies in more than 35 countries and supported scale-ups that have reached over 15 million people. * * * By Leda Zimmerman, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences The King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) is the flagship climate change program of   more

POTSDAM, Germany, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research issued the following news release: Even if CO2 emissions were to be drastically cut down starting today, the world economy is already committed to an income reduction of 19 % until 2050 due to climate change, a new study published in "Nature" finds. These damages are six times larger than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees. Based on empirical data from more than 1,600 regions  more

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, April 17 (TNSres) -- The West Virginia University's Health Sciences Center-School of Nursing issued the following news: With an interest in education and a desire to help people, West Virginia University Health Sciences Simulation Research Specialist Jason Craig has dedicated his career to serving the public. Reflecting on his journey, he emphasizes the importance of adaptability for young people considering a career in healthcare. "Embrace change. Remain open-minded  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $752,000 grant to Community at the Core, Inc. in Debord, Kentucky, to support growth of the agriculture production sector. This grant will support the procurement of production equipment at a new apple sorting facility. This EDA investment will be matche  more

PORTSMOUTH, England, April 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Portsmouth issued the following news: * * * UK households are throwing away on average 60 pieces of plastic packaging per household weekly, an estimated 1.7 billion pieces of plastic nationally weekly, equating to 90 billion pieces of plastic packaging being thrown away annually. * * * The Big Plastic Count, conducted by Greenpeace UK and Everyday Plastic, with academic support from the Revolution Plastics Institute at the Universit  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner, Tim Kaine (both D-VA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and John Fetterman (D-PA) released the following statement on the Department of Labor (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) finalizing its proposal to amend current federal standards to better protect America's miners from health hazards related to exposure to respirable crystalline  more

WASHINGTON, April 16 (TNSres) -- The Wilderness Society issued the following news release: * * * Administration tapping opportunity to make public lands part of the solution to biggest conservation, climate challenges * * * As the Biden administration continues its release of a series of final rulemakings, management plans and other agency decisions pertaining to public lands in the coming months, a new report by The Wilderness Society details the aggregate climate impacts of these actions.   more