MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 14 -- The Business Council of Australia issued the following statement on Dec. 13, 2024: * * * The Business Council says all forms of low emissions energy need to be considered in the transition to net zero by 2050, including nuclear, however questions remain on how the Coalition's policy will impact investment certainty over the next 10 to 15 years. Business Council Chief Executive Bran Black said the BCA has long called for the ban on nuclear to be lifted, so all   more

MOUNT PLEASANT, Michigan, Dec. 10 -- Central Michigan University issued the following news: * * * Connor Dunn's journey into cutting-edge environmental science * * * Not many graduate students, let alone undergraduates, get the chance to be part of cutting-edge international research at a synchrotron--a powerful circular particle accelerator. But Connor Dunn, a senior Environmental Science major and STARLAB research assistant, had exactly that opportunity. He spent a week in Gif-sur-Yvette,   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: CHAPLIN, CT. Late Thursday evening, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection hosted a virtual public hearing on the proposed renewal of a Title V air permit at Enbridge's gas compression station in Chaplin. The hearing was organized at the urging of Sierra Club Connecticut, alongside community members and other allied groups who share concerns about the facility's impact on  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 14 -- Clean Wisconsin issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2024: Yesterday the electric grid operator for the Midwest, MISO, approved a plan for 24 transmission line projects known as Tranche 2.1, which covers eleven states including Wisconsin. The plan will support at least 6.6 gigawatts (GW) of homegrown Wisconsin wind and solar power--more than double the amount of clean energy we currently produce. All projects will require approval from state regulatory ag  more

BOONE, North Carolina, Dec. 13 -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release: RICHWOOD, W.Va. -- Today, 11 conservation organizations urged the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to take immediate action to close an illegal coal haul road in the Monongahela National Forest in Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties, West Virginia. In a letter addressed to the agency's leadership, the groups explained that South Fork Coal Company falsely claimed that its Haulroad #  more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 13 -- The David Suzuki Foundation issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: MONTREAL | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE KANIEN'KEHA:KA FIRST NATION Canada's new climate target falls short of what is needed to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis, the David Suzuki Foundation says. The new target announced today -- 45 to 50 per cent emissions reductions by 2035 compared to 2005 levels -- is only a slight change from the current 2030 targe  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 14 -- Energies, a peer-reviewed journal of technology development, engineering policy and management studies, published research articles on the following topics in its Dec. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 17, Issue 23). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * * Article - A Closed-Loop Economy in the Meat Industry for Generating Alternative Energy from Biogas Plants * Article - A Novel Synchronization Strategy for Distributed Energy Resources in Weak Grids Using Remote Strong  more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 13 -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following news release: Australia's federal opposition Coalition today released modelling from Frontier Economics for its plan to establish nuclear reactors at seven sites across Australia. The following quotes are attributable to Johanna Bowyer, Lead Analyst, Australian Electricity at IEEFA. Coalition Opposition's forecast of nuclear costs is unrealistic "The Coalition Opposition's forecast of e  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Dec. 14 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Dec. 13, 2024: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Thursday filed a final appeal of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) updated Resource Management Plan (RMP) for North Dakota, following two previously unsuccessful attempts to convince the BLM to change the plan in response to the state's concerns. "Twice now, the BLM has refused to seriously consider North Dakota's concerns about this misguid  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued the following news: * * * An observational study of more than 6,500 adults is one of the most detailed in the U.S. * * * WHAT: A large study found that greater exposure to long-term air pollution was linked with increased risks for blood clots that can occur in deep veins, which, if untreated, can block blood flow and cause serious complications, even death. These find  more