NEW YORK, July 20 -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news: * * * The Asia Society's new immersive exhibit explores the vivid impacts of climate change on humans through art. * * * By Olivia Black In a powerful new iteration of the "Coal + Ice" exhibit, on display at the Asia Society in New York through August 11, the immersive works of over 30 photographers highlight the causes and consequences of climate change through a people-focused lens. The  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The Climate Justice Alliance issued the following news release: * * * Dear Members of the U.S. House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, * * * Earlier this month, the House Appropriations Committee marked up a spending bill to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. If passed it would mandate a slew of harmful policies, reversals, cuts and backward motion that the environmental and climate justice movements have won over the last few decades, among many   more

BERLIN, Germany, July 20 -- Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features the processing of biogenic materials for energy and chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 14, Issue 13). Here are excerpts: * * * * Optimized conditions for phytoinspired fabrication of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and exploring their photo- and chemocatalytic routes of methylene blue (MB) dye degradation * A review of the metho  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, July 17 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary: * * * New England's Last Coal Plants Are Shutting Down Written by Sarah Montalbano The last two coal plants in New England are scheduled to be shuttered by Granite Shore Power by 2028. While New England doesn't use much coal, little   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, July 20 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary on July 18, 2024: * * * Solar Cannot "Replace" Coal Power Written by Bill Glahn There is no sense in which a solar power plant, however large, could substitute for the round-the-clock electricity provided by a coal-fired power plant. Y  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 19 -- The European Investment Bank issued the following news release: The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 2 bn Czech crowns (ca EUR84 million) for the construction of a state-of-the-art concert hall in the Czech city of Ostrava. The EIB credit covers most of the financing for the planned EUR115.5 million cultural landmark in Ostrava, the third-largest Czech city with a population of 318,000. Located in the northeastern Moravian-Silesian region, Ostrava is clos  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 19 -- The European Investment Bank issued the following news release: The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 2 bn Czech crowns (ca EUR84 million) for the construction of a state-of-the-art concert hall in the Czech city of Ostrava. The EIB credit covers most of the financing for the planned EUR115.5 million cultural landmark in Ostrava, the third-largest Czech city with a population of 318,000. Located in the northeastern Moravian-Silesian region, Ostrava is close  more

BRISTOL, Connecticut, July 20 -- ESPN, a sports media company, issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: Emmy Award-winning TrueSouth Presented by YellaWood is set for its seventh season to debut on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 8 p.m. ET on SEC Network. With the addition of two new schools in the SEC, TrueSouth will add two shows to its repertoire for the 2024 season - moving to seven in total. The TrueSouth team will travel to six states throughout the season, making pit stops in Alabama, Ar  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics issued the following news release: The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released an updated version of its Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) commodity flow dataset, which now includes preliminary annual estimates for 2023. This newest version of the FAF (FAF 5.6.1) provides estimates of freight tonnage, value, and ton-miles/1 by origin-destination pair of FAF regions, commodity type  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 20 -- Gov. Christopher T. Sununu, R-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Today, Governor Chris Sununu signed the following 50 bills into law: * HB 202: Relative to property tax abatements * HB 322: Relative to establishing a committee to study the New Hampshire board of medicine and making an appropriation to the department of health and human services * HB 609: Relative to the site evaluation committee for energy facility siting *   more

CALDECOTTE, England, July 20 -- Indoor and Built Environment, a peer-reviewed journal from the International Society of the Built Environment, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 33, Issue 6): Original Papers: * Optimization for diffusion-type oxygen supply nearby working face of railway tunnel in plateau * Workplace induced heat-related-illness and kidney disorders amongst coal cutters of underground mines * Thermal balance of human body at loc  more

DALLAS, Texas, July 20 -- Trammell Crow Co., a developer and investor in commercial real estate, issued the following news release: * * * The Popular Restaurant Group Will Open its Sixth Establishment at The James * * * High Street Residential (HSR), the residential subsidiary of Trammell Crow Company, announced that it has signed a retail tenant at its newest residential property in the Greater St. Louis area. The Napoli Group will open its sixth location at The James in Kirkwood, Missouri  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Baton Rouge, LA The Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a rate case settlement for Cleco Power that will require the monopoly utility to run two of its fossil units at the Brame Energy Center in Central Louisiana less when it is uneconomic to do so. The rising cost of fossil fuels has turned Cleco's Madison 3 unit, which burns coal and petroleum coke, and its coal-burning Rodemach  more

NEW YORK, July 19 [Category: Environment] -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following news release: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today unanimously denied an attempt by Republican Attorneys General and fossil fuel industry parties to block EPA's protections limiting climate pollution from power plants. "Climate change is here and it is harming all of us. Americans across the nation are suffering from the intense heat waves, extreme storms and flooding, and increased  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Just weeks after a court challenge to new coal ash safeguards joined in part by the operators of the General James M. Gavin Power Plant in southeastern Ohio was thrown out, about one million gallons of coal ash wastewater spilled from Minnesota Power's Boswell Energy Center, with some reaching a reservoir of the Mississippi River. The spill was discovered Tuesday. The spill raises major new conce  more