PHOENIX, Arizona, Oct. 31 -- Arizona Public Service Co. issued the following news: * * * APS Uses 'Growth Pays For Growth' Model to Develop New Natural Gas Plant Arizona Public Service (APS) announced plans today to develop a site west of Gila Bend, Ariz., capable of adding up to 2,000 megawatts (MW) of reliable, flexible generation to the state's energy portfolio. The Desert Sun Power Plant will be a state-of-the-art natural gas facility designed to meet Arizona's rapidly growing needs, supp  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) issued a Briefing Note titled 'Australia's path to green iron' written by Soroush Basirat, Energy Finance Analyst, Global Steel. The report, issued in September 2025, posits that Australia must pursue two parallel options to secure a position in the emerging global green iron market: leveraging its vast magnetite deposits for higher-grade iron ore and developing pathways to upgrade Pilbara's lower-  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) issued a Briefing Note titled 'India's met coal demand will disappoint Australian miners' written by Simon Nicholas, Lead Steel Analyst, and Saumya Nautiyal, Energy Finance Analyst, Steel Sector, South Asia. The report, issued in October 2025, casts doubt on the reliance of Australian metallurgical (met) coal miners on India to offset declining global demand, particularly as China's imports are for  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) issued a Briefing Note titled 'Australian thermal coal producers are losing their growth markets' written by Amandine Denis-Ryan, CEO, IEEFA Australia, and Anne Knight, Lead Analyst, Australian Coal. The report, issued in October 2025, argues that Australia's thermal coal producers face worrying implications as China and Southeast Asian markets, which have been major drivers of growth, reach a turn  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Community Members Testify in Utah and Wyoming, Demanding Rocky Mountain Power Invest in Clean Energy * SALT LAKE CITY and LARAMIE, Wyo. Last night, clean energy advocates and community members rallied at hearings in Utah and Wyoming to speak out against Rocky Mountain Power's latest energy plan, known as an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The 2025 IRP, filed by the utility's parent company  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 [Category: Biology] -- The Center for Biological Diversity posted the following news release: * * * Congress Urged to Block Efforts to Create No-Rules AI Industry * WASHINGTONMore than 200 environmental and community organizations urged Congress today to reject efforts to block federal or state officials from enacting rules governing the artificial intelligence industry, including the data centers and the dirty energy infrastructure that power it. "It's despicable that   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Donald Trump's Illegal Coal Extension Drives Up Energy Bills for Customers by Millions * Jackson, MI - Today, Consumers Energy reported that keeping the J.H. Campbell power plant online after the illegal 90-day 'emergency order' issued by the Department of Energy in May 2025 cost ratepayers $53 million, even after accounting for energy revenues. The second order, issued in August, has alre  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Duke's Cayuga Coal Plant Could Permanently Close * INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) approved plans that could lead to the retirement of Duke Energy's aging and increasingly expensive Cayuga coal plant. But, as a condition of approval of replacement generation, Duke is required to study the feasibility of operating coal and gas units simultaneously at th  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 29, 2025: * * * Following Warren Questions on His Work Tied to U.K.-Sanctioned Russian Company Evraz, McFerran Withdraws Nomination to be VP at Export-Import Bank "You joined the Evraz subsidiary called East Metals AG...a year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and attempted annexation of Crimea. Evraz describes Eas  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (TNSLrpt) -- A report issued by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) titled 'Two years after launch, Indonesia's carbon market struggles to find momentum' and authored by Mutya Yustika, Research & Engagement Lead, Indonesia Energy Transition, finds that Indonesia's carbon exchange, IDX Carbon, has fallen short of expectations since its inception. Issued in October 2025, the briefing note highlights that trading activity on the market is now laggin  more

LAKEWOOD, Ohio, Oct. 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following report on October 16, 2025, by David Schlissel and Dennis Wamsted entitled "Small Modular Reactors, Carbon Capture: The wrong resources for Colorado's energy transition." Here are excerpts: * * * Executive Summary Colorado is transitioning away from coal as an electricity generation resource. How those resources are replaced is a key long-term discussion that has major implicat  more

LAKEWOOD, Ohio, Oct. 30 (TNSLrpt) -- The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis issued the following report on October 16, 2025, by Haneea Isaad and Mustafa Hyder Sayed and Ahtasam Ahmad and Umar Farooq entitled "Repurposing Pakistan's coal-based assets." Here are excerpts: * * * Executive Summary Pakistan's drive to end widespread load shedding between 2014 and 2018 relied on a rapid buildout of imported coal power plants, financed through the China Pakistan Economic Corridor  more

LONDON, England, Oct. 30 (TNSrep) -- The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine issued the following news: * * * Climate change inaction costs millions of lives each year, report warns Lancet Countdown 2025 reveals delayed climate action and reliance on fossil fuels is fuelling deaths, disease and economic loss * The 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (https://lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/) reveals that climate inaction and continued dependence on fossil fuels is   more

LONDON, England, Oct. 30 (TNSrep) -- The University College London issued the following news: * * * Climate change inaction costing a life a minute from excessive heat globally The annual number of preventable heat-related deaths globally has soared to more than half a million, a UCL-led report says. The ninth annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01919-1/fulltext) reveals that the continued overrelianc  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * President Donald J. Trump Drives Forward Billions in Investments from Japan EXPANDING THE U.S. INDUSTRIAL BASE AND SECURING OUR SUPPLY CHAINS: Today in Tokyo, President Donald J. Trump announced major projects advancing Japan's previous $550 billion investment commitment to the United States to further revitalize the U.S. industrial base, signed a landmark critical minerals agreement with Japan, secured historic pur  more

VAUD, Switzerland, Oct. 30 -- WWF Global issued the following news release: * * * WWF: COP30 decisions will shape the planet for years to come WWF calls for COP30 to close the gap between words and action on the climate and nature crisis * GLAND, Switzerland: Ten years after the landmark Paris climate agreement was approved at COP21, WWF is calling on countries to unite at COP30 to prevent the climate and nature crisis from spiraling out of control and respond to the needs of communities su  more