WINDOW ROCK, Arizona, May 30 -- The Navajo Nation Government issued the following news release on May 28, 2025: * * * 25th Navajo Nation Council urges safeguards and tribal consultation in federal restructuring efforts WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- On Tuesday, members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council participated in the U.S. Department of the Interior's Indian Affairs Workforce Efficiency and Productivity tribal consultation held at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.,  more

BOONE, North Carolina, May 29 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Amid intense grassroots pressure, General Services Administration reverses closures of MSHA field offices May 29, 2025 CONTACT - Dan Radmacher, Media Specialist, (276) 289-1018, dan@appvoices.org This week, reports indicated that the General Services Administration reversed its intent to close more than 30 U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration field offices. These le  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy and Regulatory Affairs released the following written testimony by Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, from a May 20, 2025, joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services entitled "Mandates, Meddling, and Mismanagement: The IRA's Threat to Energy and Medicine." IRA is the Inflation Reduction Act. * * * Summary * The costs  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, has announced the addition of metallurgical coal, specifically that used for steelmaking, to its Critical Material List. This designation underscores the material's high risk for supply chain disruption and its essential function in energy technologies, aligning with the Energy Act of 2020. The decision is supported by an assessment available on the Department of Energy's webs  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 30 -- The Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy's Internet Governance Project issued the following commentary: * * * Industrial Policy vs. Digital Reality: How Data, Not Labor, Is Rebuilding the Rust Belt By Brenden Kuerbis This Palantir advertisement, displayed at the Detroit airport--a symbolic and literal hub of U.S. industrial manufacturing--makes a highly strategic and ideologically charged claim: "Palantir is Reindustrializing America's Manufactu  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 (TNSFRinfo) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is proposing to renew an information collection titled "General Requirements for Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations on Federal Lands." This information collection, which appeared in the Federal Register on May 28, 2025, is essential for governing surface coal mining and reclamation operations on federal lands. This renewal is being pursued in accordance with the   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, May 29 -- Gov. Kelly Armstrong, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on May 28, 2025: * * * Armstrong highlights economic, national security benefits of Talon Metals battery minerals processing facility to be built on Westmoreland's former Beulah mine BEULAH, N.D. - Gov. Kelly Armstrong today took part in a signing ceremony to celebrate Talon Metals securing a site for its proposed Beulah Minerals Processing Facility on the former Westmoreland Mining coal mine nea  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy and Regulatory Affairs released the following written testimony by William McBride, chief economist and a fellow in economics at the Tax Foundation, from a May 20, 2025, joint hearing with the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services entitled "Mandates, Meddling, and Mismanagement: The IRA's Threat to Energy and Medicine." IRA is the Inflation Reduction Act. * * * Chairmen B  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 30 -- Gov. Patrick Morrisey, R-West Virginia, issued the following news on May 29, 2025: * * * Governor Patrick Morrisey Leads the Way to Prohibit State Investments in Companies Owned or Controlled by the Chinese Communist Party Charleston, W.Va. - Today, the West Virginia Investment Management Board passed Governor Morrisey's resolution to ban investments in companies owned or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and to begin a divestment plan from   more