CAMDEN, New Jersey, Aug. 4 [Category: BizWater] -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, posted the following news release: * * * American Water Announces Common Stock Offering with a Forward Component * CAMDEN, N.J. - AUGUST 4, 2025 - American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) announced today a registered underwritten offering of $1 billion in shares of its common stock. Subject to certain conditions, all shares are expected to be borrowed by the forward purchasers (as defined  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 4 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: * * * DEQ awards nearly $2M for public EV chargers through Volkswagen Settlement funds * The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is awarding another $1.91 million for new public electric vehicle chargers across North Carolina, filling gaps in the state's charging network along highways and in rural communities. Awards fr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Donald Trump Creates More Roadblocks for Cheap, Reliable, Renewable Energy * Washington, D.C. - Donald Trump's Department of the Interior has effectively cut off federal land leases for renewable energy. The new rules require that leases can only be made if the renewable energy project can produce the same amount of energy as that of coal, gas, or nuclear per acre. Because solar and wind fa  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 5 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Picks Up New Skills New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more autonomy and the ability to multitask -- improvements designed to make the most of   more

DULUTH, Minnesota, Aug. 5 -- Minnesota Power, a division of Allete, issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2025: * * * Minnesota Power to build 200-megawatt wind project in North Dakota as part of EnergyForward strategy for carbon-free energy Duluth, Minn. -- Minnesota Power, a utility division of ALLETE, Inc. (NYSE: ALE), announced today it plans to build the 200-megawatt Longspur Wind project in North Dakota as part of its EnergyForward transition toward a carbon-free energy future.   more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 5 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Air Quality issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2025: * * * DEQ awards nearly $2M for public EV chargers through Volkswagen Settlement funds The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is awarding another $1.91 million for new public electric vehicle chargers across North Carolina, filling gaps in the state's charging network along highways   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 5 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2025: * * * NSF Invests $74 Million in 6 Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will invest more than $74 million in six U.S. mathematical research institutes. The NSF Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes focus on the mathematical sciences and their broad applications in all fields of science, technology, and m  more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 4 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * SLAC researchers forge unprecedented gold compound at extreme heat and pressure * By Chris Patrick Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory formed solid binary gold hydride, a compound made exclusively of gold and hydrogen atoms. The researchers were study  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 5 (TNSrep) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: * * * Can Hawaii get to 100% renewable energy? To understand Hawaii's path to 100% renewable energy by 2045, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and other institutions co-authored a report Assessment of the Scope of Tasks to Completely Phase out Fossil Fuels in Hawaii (https://sustainableenergyhawaii.org/report-summary). The report addresses the state's legal mandate to gene  more