WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management posted the following news on May 28, 2024: The annual National Environmental Justice Conference and Training Program, known as NEJC, focuses on the needs and challenges of communities, governments, municipalities, tribes, faith-based organizations, and others with an interest in environmental justice (EJ). The conference aims to examine the state of EJ, share best practices, and enhance community living in a healthy en  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- ACS Omega, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its May 28, 2024, edition (Vol. 9, Issue 21): Articles: * Origin and Geochemical Characterization of Groundwater from Coal Seam: A Case Study of Balasu Coalfield, Ordos Basin * Investigating the Taenia solium Fatty Acid Binding Protein Superfamily for Their Immunological   more

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, May 29 -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: FRAMINGHAM, MA and COLLEGE PARK, MD -- Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that construction is underway for a $33 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (N  more

LITTLETON, Colorado, May 29 -- Arapahoe County issued the following news: Arapahoe County is set to adopt the 2023 National Electrical Code (NEC) for its Building division and is accepting public comment though June 14. The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. June 25 in the East Hearing Room within the Administration Building, 5334 S. Prince St., in Littleton. Once adopted by the BOCC, the 2023 NEC will go into effect June 30, 2024. Residents unable to  more

FLINT, Michigan, May 29 -- The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation issued the following news: Two years after the untimely passing of Sandra Smithey, a former and longtime program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, a fellowship established to continue her legacy is having an impact. Over two decades, Smithey worked with Mott grantees worldwide to increase access to modern energy services and reform international development finance. To honor and continue her legacy, the Accountability  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, May 29 -- The Washington State Department of Commerce issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: The Washington State Department of Commerce this week announced $7.5 million in grants to five tribes in Washington to plan, design and build clean energy projects. Funded by Washington's Climate Commitment Act, these clean energy grants through Commerce are part of an $83 million opportunity that includes $16 million for a targeted tribal clean energy fund and $67 milli  more

DENVER, Colorado, May 29 -- The Colorado Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: To help promote multi-faceted uses of agricultural land, the Colorado Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the Agrivoltaics Research and Demonstration Grant Program. Open for the second year in a row, the program funds projects that demonstrate and research the use of solar generation on agricultural land. "The first year of these grants was a tremendous success. Awardee  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Senator Chris Hansen, D-Denver, traveled to the White House today to attend a summit and participate in a state lawmaker panel discussion on modernizing America's power grid. Hansen discussed his legislation to help Colorado leverage hundreds of millions of federal dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act to expand the state's use of distributed community solar generation, and his bill to mod  more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release: The Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service and Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that the application portal for the 2024 Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program is now open. Applications are being accepted beginning today at 9:00am ET, with a 30-day initial application window which concludes at 11:59 pm ET on June 27. During this 30-day initial applica  more

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, May 29 -- DNV, a provider of classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services, issued the following news: DNV has supported SN Aboitiz Power Group on the development of a 24MW/32MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) co-located with the Magat Hydroelectric Power Plant DNV experts across Asia Pacific pooled extensive battery energy storage system expertise for the project Energy storage systems expected to play a crucial role i  more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies released the following written testimony by Greg Hitchcock, vice chairman of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, from a public witness hearing dated May 7, 2024, on fiscal 2025 funding requests: * * * Summary of Agency/Program and Funding Requests 1. Funding for Tribal Public Safety 2. Funding for IHS and Tribal Healthcare 3. Funding for Co-Stewardship of Federal Lands 4. Funding for Green Energ  more

LONDON, England, May 29 -- The Journal of Materials Chemistry A, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it covers production of materials related to energy storage and conversion, sustainability or living, published research articles on the following topics in its June 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 21). Here are excerpts: * Hetero-atom doped graphene for marvellous hydrogen storage: unveiling recent advances and future pathways * Bioinspired aerogels: ingenio  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- Langmuir, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it focuses on the science and application of systems and materials, published research articles on the following topics in its May 28, 2024, edition (Vol. 40, Issue 21): Perspectives: * MBenes for Energy Conversion: Advances, Bottlenecks, and Prospects Articles: * Comparison of Methods Used to Investigate Coalescence in Emulsions * Short Zwitterionic Sulfobetaine-Modified Silica Nanoparticle  more

LONDON, England, May 29 -- Nature Energy, a journal that says it features natural, social and behavioural sciences, economics and multi-billion-dollar global industries, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 9, Issue 5): Research Highlights: * Preserving the stoichiometry * Constructing channelled structures * Anchoring nanoparticles * Tourist donations News & Views: * Hidden potential of lithium oxide * Citizens' perceptions * Understanding e  more

BRISBANE, Australia, May 29 (TNSres) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: Professor Hongxia Wang has received a prestigious $3,023,860 ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship for a project to make next-generation perovskite-based solar cells more durable using molecular engineering. The research project, entitled 'Molecular engineering and doping for efficient and affordable solar cells', aims to develop a process for the ultra-low-cost production of perovskite sola  more

WASHINGTON, May 24 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02), a member of the House Agriculture Committee and the only member of Hawai'i's congressional delegation to serve on one of Congress's agriculture committees, voted against sending the House Republicans' partisan Farm Bill to the full House of Representatives during a 13-hour markup. The committee reported the bill with a vote of 33-21. "It was important to me t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists from the University of California, Davis, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a sample holder that tumbles powdered photochemical materials within a neutron beamline. The rotating holder exposes more of the material to light for increased photoactivation and better photochemistry data capture. Conventional sample holders were unable to rotate, or t  more

LONDON, England, May 29 -- Sustainable Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features the development of sustainable energy technologies, published research articles on the following topics in its June 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 8, Issue 11): * Effective charge separation in photoelectrochemical water splitting: a review from advanced evaluation methods to materials design * Cobalt site coordinated polyterthiophene derivant/hematite hybrid photo  more

KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, May 29 -- The Technical University of Denmark issued the following news: Diversity, defence, security technology, and innovation are among the topics debated by engineers in the Tech Tent at Folkemodet--the People's Democratic Festival. This year you'll find us at a new central location. DTU is represented at this year's People's Festival on Bornholm by a strong team of quick-minded debaters, who will be discussing highly relevant topics such as energy, climate, securi  more

TUCSON, Arizona, May 29 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Jedidiah Perea, a fourth-year student in the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, had no idea what he would be designing when he began an architecture studio course in the spring. But he knew what he hoped to accomplish. "I wanted to do something that I knew would be a challenge and require a lot of knowledge that we had learned in previous classes but not nec  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on May 28, 2024: * * * Biden-Harris Administration Launches Federal-State Initiative to Bolster America's Power Grid Since Day One, President Biden has positioned America as a leader in the global race for a clean energy future, including by taking ambitious action to deliver a clean, reliable electric grid, which will help ensure that communities don't lose power during extreme weather events, lower energy costs   more