WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- ACS Omega, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 3, 2024, edition (Vol. 9, Issue 35): Mini-Reviews * Repurposed Drugs during the Outbreak of Pandemic COVID-19: A Mini-Review on Their Molecular Structures and Hit-and-Trial Results * Recent Advances in Perovskite Single-Crystal Thin Film Optoelectronic Devices   more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Aug. 30 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary: * * * California Points to Future Power Blackouts in Minnesota Written by Bill Glahn For decades we've been told that trends in California foretell the future of America. It used to be a promise, now it's a warning. This week saw a l  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 4 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: A coalition of clean air and health advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to stop industry giants from releasing cancer-causing air pollution, like benzene from coke oven plants. In Western Pennsylvania, Northern Indiana, Alabama, and other locations throughout the U.S., coke oven plants superheat coal in a kiln. The process releases   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Environmental Science and Technology, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it promotes interdisciplinary understanding in the environmental field, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 3, 2024, edition (Vol. 58, Issue 35): Viewpoints * Integration of Advanced Large Language Models into the Construction of Adverse Outcome Pathways: Opportunities and Challenges Policy Analyses * Exploring Synergistic GHG Emission  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- The European Union delegation to the U.S. issued the following news release: The European Union (EU) and our 27 Member States remain united and determined in our unprecedented support for Ukraine. Since the start of the war, the EU and our Member States have made available over $126 billion* in financial, military, humanitarian, and refugee assistance. In addition, in February 2024, European leaders agreed to commit up to $54 billion until 2027 for a new Ukraine Facility  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 5 (TNSres) -- The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued the following news on Sept. 4, 2024: The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its review of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Israel, with Committee Experts acknowledging the State's efforts to assist internally displaced children, while asking about the mental health treatment for children traumatised by the war, and how the State was taking measures to protect   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 4 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Acid mine drainage. Digitally printed legal documents. Drone photographs. Core samples. Appalachian bituminous coal. The artists represented in Extraction/Interaction--the Curb Center's fall exhibition--use these and other materials to create bodies of work that galvanize responses and resistance to the climate crisis. Featuring the work of Will Wilson, Eliza Evans and John Sabraw, Extraction/Interaction considers  more

NORFOLK, Virginia, Sept. 4 (TNSres) -- Old Dominion University issued the following Q&A on Sept. 3, 2024, with Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, curator and director of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries: * * * By Sam McDonald The new curator and director of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, brings to Old Dominion University a stockpile of knowledge that's easy to admire and hard to categorize. As a folklorist and anthropologist, Waugh-Quasebarth has conducted r  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Susan Wild joined Weatherly Mayor Paul Hadzick, Borough Manager Harold Pudliner, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Deputy Secretary of Conservation and Technical Services Claire Jantz, and Trust for Public Land's Land Protection Manager Ellen Lott to visit the site of the Penn Haven trail. "Once used to deliver coal from Carbon County across the country,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Coalition for a Prosperous America issued the following news release: Every solar tariff in the past 10 years has been met with opposition and claims that it will slow deployment of solar technology in the United States. However, despite this constant wolf crying, solar tariffs have never slowed down solar deployment. This has simply never been the case. In 2018, after the Trump Administration implemented a tariff on solar cells and modules star  more