WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funded by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, EPA announces selected applications through competitive Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program to tackle climate change, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice * * * Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of the Stat  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following readout of Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer's visit to the Federal Correctional Institution in Thomson, Illinois: * * * On July 23, Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer and members of her team visited Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Thomson, a low security Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) facility for male inmates with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp, located in Thomson, Illinois. The Pardon Attorney and her   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, July 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Zirconium combined with silicon nitride enhances the conversion of propane -- present in natural gas -- needed to create in-demand plastic, polypropylene Scientists found that zirconium, when combined with silicon nitride, enhances the catalytic conversion of propane into propylene in a way that's faster and uses less energy than more traditional means.   more