WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 [Category: Energy] -- The American Clean Power Association issued the following news release: The American Clean Power Association (ACP) released the following statement today from Chief Policy Officer Frank Macchiarola after the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced its final draft Western Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) which defines areas available for and excluded from solar development on public lands in 11   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- ACS Applied Electronic Materials, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 27, 2024, edition (Vol. 6, Issue 8): Reviews * Functional Hydrogel Strain Sensors for Smart Electronic Devices: Strategies and Recent Progress * Recent Research Advances in Textile-Based Flexible Power Supplies and Displays for Smart Wearable Applications * Research Progress of Human Motion Monitoring with Self-Dr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Funded by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Spur Economic Growth in Rural Communities PAHRUMP, Nev., Aug. 29, 2024 The Biden-Harris Administration today announced $140 million for clean energy projects in rural Nevada and Kentucky that will lower power bills for households, expand reliable access to clean energy and create jobs for rural families, small businesses and agricultural prod  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * Updated planning effort will guide additional solar energy development on public lands * * * The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced its proposed roadmap for solar energy development on public lands, designed to expand efficient and environmentally responsible solar project permitting on public lands across the West. Today's release of the  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Coalition for a Prosperous America issued the following news release: If anyone needed yet another example of the importance of China miners and processing companies, Beijing said it would put restrictions on exports of antimony and processing equipment used in batteries and as an alloy to increase a metal's strength. This means WHAT? China accounts for nearly half of the world's antimony production, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Chin  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48166) on Aug. 26, 2024, entitled "The U.S. Mining Industry and the Rosemont Decision:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Issues for Congress The issues at stake in the Rosemont decision highlight some of the challenges that can arise in administering the 150-year-old Mining Act for modern mining operations and managing the shared resource of federal lands. While a number of stakeholders ad  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 30 -- Energy and Environmental Science, a peer-reviewed journal linking all aspects of the chemical, physical and biotechnological sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science from the Royal Society of Chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 17, Issue 17): Review Article * Pros and cons of hole-selective self-assembled monolayers in inverted PSCs and T  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 29 -- 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 September 2024 edition (Vol. 26, Issue 9): * A Geographical approach of watershed prioritization in the Himalayas: a case study in the middle mountain district of Nepal * A life cycle analysis-based comprehensive study on municipal solid waste man  more

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 30 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * Guides Energy-Related Program and Policy Decision-Making in Public and Private Sectors SUNY Chancellor Dr. John B. King Jr. Joins New York State Energy Planning Board * * * Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the kickoff of the State Energy Plan process convening the State Energy Planning Board to update New York's comprehensive roadmap to build a clean, resilient, and aff  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The Institute for Local Self-Reliance issued the following news: For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell is joined by Tim Hade, Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer at Scale Microgrids, and Leah Stokes, who is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. They discuss how, through the coordination of a virtual power plant,  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 30 -- The Journal of Materials Chemistry C, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it covers production of materials related to display technologies, optical materials, magnetics, electronics or information storage technology, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 14, 2024, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 34): Review Article * Chirality inducing units in organic TADF molecules: a way to circularly polarized luminescence P  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 [Category: Environment] -- The League of Conservation Voters issued the following news release: In response to the Biden-Harris administration finalizing an updated Western Solar Plan to expand solar energy production across public lands the League of Conservation Voters released the following statement from Conservation Program Director, America Fitzpatrick: "Public lands can and should be a part of the climate solution and this final Western Solar Plan will help to accele  more

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 30 -- The New York State Public Service Commission issued the following ruling on process (Case No. 24-E-0228) on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * Petition of Hemlock Ridge Solar, LLC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity Pursuant to Public Service Law Section 68 and an Order Granting Lightened Regulation. RULING ON PROCESS Leah Amyot and James Costello, Administrative Law Judges: On April 11, 2024, Hemlock Ridge Solar, LLC (Petitioner) filed a petition seeking a   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- NASA issued the following news release: A new set of NASA science experiments and technology demonstrations will arrive at the lunar South Pole in 2027 following the agency's latest CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative delivery award. Intuitive Machines of Houston will receive $116.9 million to deliver six NASA payloads to a part of the Moon where nighttime temperatures are frigid, the terrain is rugged, and the permanently shadowed regions could help revea  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released an updated proposal for the Western Solar Plan that will guide the future of large-scale solar energy projects on public lands across the Western U.S., including areas near national parks. The BLM's Western Solar Plan, or the Solar Energy Development Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), will help determine the   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: As an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Michelle Krynock learned how her work inside and outside the classroom could make a meaningful difference. Nine years after graduating with degrees in civil and environmental engineering and engineering and public policy, Krynock is using her expertise as a senior life cycle analyst at NETL to make  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- The Ohio Environmental Council issued the following news release: A recent investigation by Energy News Network and a report by the Energy and Policy Institute highlight The Empowerment Alliance's extensive and deceptive practices to stifle renewable energy development in Ohio. Since the Ohio General Assembly passed Senate Bill 52, allowing local renewable energy bans, the Ohio Power Siting Board has given local sentiment around a proposed solar development  more

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Aug. 30 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester alongside U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.) today announced a $1.5 million grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Sustainable Energy Resources for Consumers (SERC) grant program to Delaware's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) to help low-income households make home energy impro  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The Solar Energy Industries Association issued the following statement on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * Today the Bureau of Land Management released a final environmental review of the Western Solar Plan, also known as the Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). The Solar PEIS is a foundational environmental planning document that determines where solar development can occur on public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, O  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Aug. 29 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. William Sitzabee, Penn State vice president for facilities management and planning, is stepping down from Penn State after seven years leading the University's Office of Physical Plant (OPP). His last day at Penn State will be Sept. 6. Thomas Rodgers, OPP assistant vice president of administration, will serve as interim. Sitzabee joined Penn State in July 2017 as associate vi  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 30 -- Solar RRL, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers solar energy conversion, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 8, Issue 16): Review * Strain in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: Origins, Impacts, and Regulation Research Article * Nickel and Cobalt Selenite Hydrates as Broad Solar Absorbers for Enhanced Solar Water Evaporation * Mechanical Compression-Enabled Carbon-Based Perovskite Solar Cells with Enhanced E  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The Wilderness Society issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2024: * * * New plan can ensure solar deployment meets energy needs through responsible project siting * * * Today, the Bureau of Land Management released its final Western Solar Plan update, which guides responsible solar energy development on public lands across the West to help meet the nation's climate and clean energy goals. The final Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) is th  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 30 -- White and Case, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised renewable energy producer Sunly AS on a Euros300 million portfolio financing to promote the construction of its 1.3 GW pipeline of solar, wind and battery energy storage system facilities across the Baltics and Poland. "This financing supports Sunly's ambitious growth plans and helps accelerate the construction of hybrid renewable energy parks across the Baltic State  more