WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management North Dakota Field Office issued the following news release: DICKINSON, N.D. - The Bureau of Land Management released its proposed resource management plan and final environmental impact statement for the North Dakota Field Office. The proposed plan updates the 1988 North Dakota RMP to better balance energy and mineral development while supporting outdoor recreation, cultural resources, and sustaining healthy ha  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- Sen. Robert Casey Jr., D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: The hearing examined the needs and issues affecting caregivers for children, older adults, and people with disabilities Witnesses from Pennsylvania testified about their experiences as caregivers and recipients of care, and raised issues about the cost, quality, and availability of care Casey touted his long record of leadership on caregiving in the Senate and called for federal action to provide m  more

MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 8 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: Synthetic fuels could make heavy goods traffic climate-friendly in the future. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, RWTH Aachen University, and ETH Zurich is now presenting a synthesis route that can be used to produce a fuel, known as HyFiT fuel, made from biomass or carbon dioxide that can be used to refuel conventional combustion engines. Here, the researc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Racine, WISCONSIN Today, a coalition held a press conference in opposition to WEC Energy Group's plan to build new gas plants. The parent company of We Energies, WEC plans to build new plants that total 3,000 megawatts (MWs) of gas, constructing 1,300 MWs of expensive new power plants, and converting nearly 2,000 MW of existing coal to gas. These new plans directly contradict WEC Energy Group's sta  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: UFLPA Entity List Will Now Restrict Goods from 73 PRC-Based Companies from Entering the United States Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the addition of five entities based in the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, bringing the total entities listed to 73. These additions build on DHS's commitment to eradica  more

BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug. 9 -- Engineering Journal, a peer-reviewed journal from the Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Engineering that says it covers all topics in engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its July 31, 2024, edition (Vol. 28, No. 7): * Eco-Friendly Production of Decorative Concrete Blocks Using Coal Fly Ash and Coconut Husk Fiber Admixtures: Mixture D-Optimal Design Optimization * Diabetic Retinopathy Classification: Performance Evaluation of Pre-tra  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) toured the TW Metals Defense Industrial Supplier in South Charleston, West Virginia. TW Metals and the West Virginia defense industrial base provides more than 2.7 million parts and raw materials for the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier program. "West Virginia mined the coal that forged the steel that built the tanks and ships that made our nation the st  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT students get first-hand view of climate-proofing the Netherlands. * * * By Deborah Halber, MIT Energy Initiative When MIT senior Rudiba Laiba saw that stores in the Netherlands eschewed plastic bags to save the planet, her first thought was, "that doesn't happen in Bangladesh." Laiba is one of eight MIT students who traveled to the Netherlands in June as part of an M  more