NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, July 17 -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: Inspirational champion of entrepreneurship in the North East, and nationally-recognised figure in the business start-up community Caroline Theobald CBE has received an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from Northumbria University, Newcastle. Born and raised in London, her first major role in business was as News Editor of Printing World the leading technical print magazine based in Fleet Street. Af  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Today, the US Court of Appeals for the DC District agreed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission failed to fully and adequately assess the cumulative and direct environmental and health impacts that would be caused by air pollution from Commonwealth LNG, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act and Natural Gas Act. While the court stopped short of vacating FERC's approval of the   more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on July 16, 2024: * * * Funding from President Biden's Investing in America Agenda Will Develop More Affordable, Sustainable Production Processes and Create Good-Paying Jobs in America's Energy Communities * * * As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $10 million for two projects that will help lower the costs and reduce the environmental  more

DUBLIN, Ireland, July 16 (TNSres) -- The Economic and Social Research Institute issued the following news: Research published today (16 July) by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with poorer mental health in older people. One of the most damaging forms of air pollution is fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which in Ireland is caused mainly by the burning of solid fu  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on July 15, 2024: In response to legal action by environmental and conservation groups, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia signed a final consent decree Friday that requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take action on haze pollution plans from Texas and 31 other states. Haze pollution, which largely comes from coal power plant emissions, degrades air quality and visi  more

SEJONG, South Korea, July 16 -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, issued the following news release on July 15, 2024: * * * * HA technology can play a crucial role in the global energy transition facilitating coal-to gas switching and providing the necessary flexible power to integrate greater levels of variable renewable energy * GE Vernova's 100th HA gas turbine, a 7HA.03, the world's largest, most efficient, and flexible gas turbine with the lowest cost conversion of gas to electricity for   more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded Giles County a $200,000 grant. These funds are directed to support a reuse study for the decommissioned Appalachian Power (ApCo) coal-fired Glen Lyn Plant in Pearisburg, Virginia. U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement: "I strongly support projects that reinvigorate and breathe life into our communities. "Thi  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Donald Trump's new running mate JD Vance counts the Blackstone Group as one of his top campaign donors the same private equity firm that owns and operates the General James M. Gavin Power Plant in southeastern Ohio that has earned the title of "America's deadliest coal plant." The Gavin coal plant causes an estimated 244 premature deaths a year, earning it the dishonorable distinction as the dead  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 16 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: A team of lawyers from Mayer Brown and Stoel Rives LLP secured a victory for electric utility cooperative McKenzie Electric Cooperative (MEC) in an initial decision from a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) administrative law judge. The judge found that Basin Electric Power Cooperative, the nation's largest cooperative, had improperly been including significant charges associated with one of its for-profi  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland urging her to rescind the department's update to the Buffalo Field Office Resource Management Plan  more

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Glasgow issued the following news: A groundbreaking new reconstruction of 19th-century Britain's water resources has revealed how limited access to waterpower during the Industrial Revolution helped drive the adoption of steam engines in Greater Manchester's Cottonopolis. Geographers and historians from the UK and Australia are behind the research, which reveals for the first time that local water shortages during the rapid expansion of   more