WASHINGTON, July 31 (TNSrep) -- The Government Accountability Office issued the following report: Here are excerpts: * * * Fast Facts Critical minerals like lithium and cobalt feed technologies that keep the U.S. economy running. But other countries control much of the supply. One way to increase the U.S. supply of critical minerals is to recover them from nontraditional sources. For example, companies can extract minerals from piles of waste rock left at old mines. But using these sources  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Results released today from PJM Interconnection's Capacity Auction, which includes almost all of Virginia, show significant price increases for reserving capacity in 2025/2026. U.S. Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement: "As demand for electricity grows in the United States, coupled with the retirement of coal and natural gas power plants, a new kind of economic turmoil brews  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 1 -- The International Journal of Production Research, a journal that says it features management, design of products, manufacturing processes, production and logistics systems, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 62, Issue 18 special issue entitled Production Optimisation in Carbon Reduction Engineering Management: Research Articles: * A novel carbon reduction engineering method-based deep Q-learning algorithm for energy-efficient scheduling o  more

TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 1 (TNSres) -- York University issued the following news release: Data generated by researchers at York University's Ecological Footprint Initiative shows 2023 to be a record-breaking year for humanity's Ecological Footprint, which is predicted to exceed what the Earth can regenerate this year by tomorrow (August 1) - Earth Overshoot Day. All components of the Ecological Footprint - cropland, grazing land, fish harvests, built-up land, forest products, and carbon emissio  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representatives Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), Mike Bost (R-IL-12), Alex Mooney (R-WV-02) and Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) introduced the Monitoring, Investigating, Navigating and Explaining Subsidence (MINES) Act to improve transparency into the federal government's efforts to prevent coal mine collapses. The bipartisan legislation would require the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Sur  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on the future of electric vehicles, on July 31, 2024: * * * Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to our expert witnesses. Our last hearing was with Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Swagel. The hearing was a very welcome event at this committee. Unfortunately, [it was] a rare opportunity for this committee to focus on the critical,  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Environment America issued the following statement on July 30, 2024: * * * The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to consider Wednesday new legislation from Sens. Joe Manchin and John Barrasso that would increase fossil fuel mining and drilling on public lands and in the ocean while shortening review timelines for certain renewable energy and transmission projects. Environment America's Executive Director Lisa Frank released the following statemen  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, July 31 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: For six years, Uzezi Orivri was a petroleum engineer, focused on extracting oil and gas from the ground. Now, as a part of a U.S. Department of Energy-funded project, the former petroleum engineer is helping revolutionize efforts to keep harmful amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere by putting it in the ground. "Carbon sequestration was something I really wanted to do my Ph.D. research on," said Orivri,   more