BISMARCK, North Dakota, Aug. 2 -- Bismark State College issued the following news: Bismarck State College (BSC) has been selected as one of 18 nationwide recipients to join the prestigious Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI), a major workforce education initiative launched in 2019 by All Within My Hands (AWMH) and the American Association of Community College (AACC) to support career and technical education programs at community colleges. This designation comes with a generous $75,000 grant to   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) delivered a speech on the U.S. Senator floor on the Biden-Harris administration's hypocritical and backward liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permitting freeze. Last month, a ruling from the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana blocked the administration's freeze. "The American people understand the importance of energy--it keeps the lights o  more

OAKLAND, California, July 31 -- As You Sow Foundation issued the following news release: Constellation Brands acknowledges that climate change is a present and growing risk to its supply chain, noting that in 2021, inventory levels for its beer and wine and spirits segments were "negatively impacted by climate-related events." Constellation Brands' Scope 1 and 2 emissions goals are not aligned with achieving a 1.5degC future, and the company has no existing Scope 3 goal, which accounts for over  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 1 -- Energy Science and Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal from the Society of Chemical Industry that says it features energy and supply and use, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 7): * Assessment of forecasting hydrate blockage in foam drainage gas recovery wellbore * Numerical simulation of the influence of the structural parameters of a sampling diluter for particulate matter in diesel engines on the internal  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 1 -- Environment, Development and Sustainability, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 26, Issue 8): * Vulnerability and resilience in the context of natural hazards: a critical conceptual analysis' * Exploring recent trends in integrating urban planning and ecology * A review of the LCA literature investig  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Sutherland, NEBRASKA Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) that will require the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) to install a scrubber on its Gerald Gentleman Station coal plant in order to address the plant's major contributions to haze pollution. Regional haze is a major concern for 98 percent of national parks in the United Stat  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security released the following testimony by Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Mark C. Christie from a July 24, 2024, hearing entitled "The Fiscal Year 2025 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Budget": * * * Chairman Duncan, Ranking Member DeGette, Members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for the privilege to appear before you with my colleagues from FERC. As I have been warning for the past thre  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Aug. 1 -- The Indiana Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following weekly hearing schedule: * * * Monday, August 5, 2024 There are no hearings scheduled for today. * * * Tuesday, August 6, 2024 CAUSE NO.: 46022; ALJ: SCHUSTER; TIME: 9:30 A.M.; COMMISSIONER: HUSTON; ROOM: PNC, Room 222 VERIFIED PETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY D/B/A AES INDIANA ("AES INDIANA") FOR (1) ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY TO REPOWER P  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 31 (TNSres) -- Lewis and Clark College issued the following news: Assistant Professor of Biology Heidi Liere and her students take a closer look at Portland's lady beetle species to understand how these beneficial predators preserve biodiversity and respond to a changing climate. Lady beetles, also known as ladybugs, are distinct, varied and abundant, with approximately 500 species in North America and 6,000 worldwide. Their oval, dome-shaped bodies can be colorful and d  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Oil Change International issued the following news release: * * * In response to the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 moving out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Allie Rosenbluth, United States Program Manager at Oil Change International, released the following statement: "The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee should be ashamed that it voted to advance the Energy Permitting Reform Act, a blatant, dirty deal to fast-track fossil fuels at  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 1 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: This photo shows the Zongo glacier near the summit of Huayna Potosi, a mountain near La Paz, Bolivia. The glacier is one of several in the tropical Andes Mountains that are now smaller than at any point since the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, according to new research from UW-Madison researchers and their collaborators. Photo by Ethan C. Parrish/Whispering Rivers Media As they are in  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging issued the following information for a field hearing entitled "From Infancy to Aging: The Effects of Caregiving Across the Lifespan" at 10 a.m. on Aug. 7, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Members * Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (Democrat-Pennsylvania) Witnesses * Heather Tomko, Outreach Coordinator, National Research and Rehabilitation Training Center on Family Support, University of Pittsburgh, Whitehall Borough, PA * Tara Dawson  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. joined Varney & Company on Fox Business to discuss Israel elimination of two terrorist leaders and flaring tensions in the Middle East as a result of the Biden-Harris Administration's foreign policy failures. Senator Marshall also discussed Google's recent suppression of search results related to the assassination attempt against President Trump, as well as the danger Democrats'  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Aug. 1 -- The Chesapeake Bay Program issued the following news release: * * * The saltiest waters of the Bay see the highest acreage of grasses in 27 years * * * An estimated 82,937 acres of underwater grasses were distributed throughout Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries in 2023, marking a 7% increase from the previous year. Experts believe that it is likely that more underwater grasses, also known as submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), grew in the Chesapeake in 2  more