WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- The American Action Forum issued the following commentary on Jan. 8, 2025: * * * Evaluating the IRA's Clean Energy Tax Provisions By Shuting Pomerleau, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Congress is likely to revisit the Inflation Reduction Act's 22 clean energy tax provisions - among them production and investment tax credits, transportation-related tax credits, and other tax incentives for carbon emissions mitigation and energy efficiency  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on Jan. 6, 2025: The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's failure to assess harms to endangered wildlife and plants when determining the national air-pollution standards for dangerous nitrogen, sulfur and soot pollution -- a violation of the Endangered Species Act. The lawsuit seeks to ensure that the EPA consults with the federal agenci  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on Jan. 7, 2025: * * * An Energy Crisis Provides Opportunity in Moldova By Leah Kieff Until 2022, Moldova sourced 100 percent of its energy from Russian gas. This gas was delivered through Ukraine via Transnistria, which has existed as a breakaway region of Moldova since 1992. This followed an armed separatist conflict where Russian forces directly supported Transnistrian militia against   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Jan. 8, 2025: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it is proposing to approve Alaska's newest plan for combatting harmful wintertime particulate pollution in the Fairbanks-North Star Borough. EPA's proposed approval is the result of significant changes made by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to a plan it submitted in 2023 that EPA determined would not achi  more

LONDON, England, Jan. 8 -- FutureCoal issued the following news: FutureCoal welcomes President-elect Trump's recent reaffirmation of his commitment to "clean coal," aligning closely with FutureCoal's Sustainable Coal Stewardship roadmap. This bold vision underscores coal's enduring role in driving economic growth, energy security, and environmental responsibility. "Coal is more than energy--it's a strategic asset," said Michelle Manook, CEO of FutureCoal. "Our Sustainable Coal Stewardship road  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Jan. 9 -- Geosciences, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it focuses on interdisciplinary aspects of the Earth and planetary sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 15, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * * Article - Absent Voices and Unwarranted Presences: A Combined Multi-Approach to Mapping the Roman Hydraulic System Supplying Las Medulas Gold Mine (NW, Iberia) * Article - Applying Data Ana  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Today,Congresswoman Harriet Hageman introduced two pieces of legislation to halt the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Buffalo and Rock Springs Resource Management Plans (RMPs). The RMPs amount to a federal land lockout, shutting down over 11 million acres of Wyoming's public lands by reclassifying multiple-use management as non-use or restricted access. Grazing, mining, recreation, and energy development-  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), in his first legislative action of the 119 th Congress, reintroduced the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, legislation to require the biggest polluters to begin paying their fair share to confront the climate crisis. The Senators' legislation requires the largest U.S.-based fossil fuel extractors and oil refiners and foreign-owned companies doing business in th  more

LONDON, England, Jan. 9 -- The Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features fundamental theory and application of spectrometric techniques, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 1, 2025, edition (Vol. 40, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Tutorial Review * Insights into the role of transition and noble metals mediating photochemical vapor generation Paper * A simple meth  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan. 8 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * At the MITEI Fall Colloquium, the administrator of the US Energy Information Administration explained why long-term energy models are not forecasting tools -- and why they're still vitally important. * * * By Calvin Hennick, MIT Energy Initiative Joseph F. DeCarolis, administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), has one overarching piece of advice for  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (TNSres) -- The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research issued the following news: By Benjamin Dennehy The American Consumer Institute (ACI) has announced its 2025 policy resolutions aimed at safeguarding consumer welfare through robust research and advocacy. These initiatives target pressing issues in energy, healthcare, technology, and financial services, ensuring consumers have access to affordable, high-quality products and services while preserving compe  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Jan. 9 -- Processes, a peer-reviewed open access journal on processes in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials and systems engineering research fields, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 13, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * * Article - A Comparative Evaluation of the Antioxidant Ability of Polygonum cuspidatum Extracts with That of Resveratrol Itself * Article - A Deep Reinforcement Advantage Actor-C  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Jan. 8 -- Systems, a peer-reviewed open access journal on systems engineering and systems management, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2024 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 12). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * * Article - A Bi-Objective Model for the Location and Optimization Configuration of Kitchen Waste Transfer Stations * Article - A Case of One Step Forward and Two Steps Back? An Examination of Herbicide-Resistant Weed Management Usin  more