WASHINGTON, June 27 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Another Lawsuit Filed as Sierra Club FOIA Requests Again Unlawfully Ignored by Trump Administration * Oakland, CA - The Sierra Club filed another lawsuit against the Trump Administration, this time seeking to hold the Department of the Interior accountable for its failure to respond to basic Freedom of Information Act requests within the timeline required by law, or even to provide estimat  more

VICTORIA, Australia, June 27 -- The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issued the following news: * * * ASIC seeks orders compelling large proprietary companies in the GFG Alliance Group to lodge outstanding financial reports ASIC has taken action in the Supreme Court of NSW against Liberty Primary Metals Australia, Tahmoor Coal and Liberty Bell Bay for their failure to lodge annual financial reports with ASIC. Large proprietary companies with a financial year ending 30 June ar  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, June 28 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on June 27, 2025: * * * Grids 'Close to the Edge' During Heat Wave: FERC By Sarah Montalbano This week saw a heat wave strong enough that Mark Christie, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, warned that "Some of our systems really came close to the edge." He also made it clear that wind, s  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * Deluzio & PA Congressional Delegation Members Call for Reinstatement of Mine Safety Workers at NIOSH Facility in Western PA * CARNEGIE, PA - Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) led seven members of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation on a letter demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services reverse the firing of workers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety an  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The World Bank issued the following news release: * * * Extreme Poverty is Rising Fast in Economies Hit by Conflict, Instability * Development Setbacks Mount as Frequency of Conflict Surges to 25-Year High WASHINGTON, June 27, 2025 -- Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty faster than anywhere else, intensifying acute hunger, and pushing several key development goals farther out of reac  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Georgia Power Hides Behind Smoke and Mirrors in Energy Hearings * ATLANTA \- After another week of hearings on Georgia Power's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and its rate case settlement proposal, Georgia residents are still left in the dark about the company's plans to build fossil fuel plants, and worry about the future of their energy bills. The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC)  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: * * * Interior Announces Nearly $725 Million to Reclaim Abandoned Coal Mines * Date: June 27, 2025 Contact: Interior_Press@ios.doi.gov WASHINGTON -- As part of President Donald J. Trump's America First Energy Agenda, the Department of the Interior today announced the availability of nearly $725 million in fiscal year 2025 funding to clean up abandoned coal mines and restore opportunity in Ameri  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The International Monetary Fund posted the following news: * * * Mongolia: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission * A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or 'mission'), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (b  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-New Jersey, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following news release on June 26, 2025: * * * Pallone: Deregulating Coal Ash Waste Will Bring More Disease and Pollution Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today as prepared for delivery at an Environment Subcommittee hearing on "A Decade Later: A Review of Congressional Action, Environme  more

DERBY, England, June 27 -- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars issued the following news release: * * * ROLLS-ROYCE CELEBRATES THE OPENING OF THE SUMMER SEASON AT THE HURLINGHAM CLUB Rolls-Royce Motor Cars London marks the opening of the Summer Season with its return to the Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic at The Hurlingham Club in West London this week. It is the first in a series of high society occasions in which Rolls-Royce will serve a gentle presence across London and further afield in Britain during t  more