BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 5 [Category: Energy]-- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, posted the following news release: * * * 350.org response to China's 15th Five-Year Plan: "Insufficient Progress" * Beijing: China has released its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) during the country's annual "Two Sessions" meetings, setting out economic and industrial priorities for the next five years. While the plan confirms cont  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 6 -- The Arizona Corporation Commission issued the following news release on March 5, 2026: * * * Chairman Myers Votes with ACC to Repeal Outdated Renewable Mandates At the Arizona Corporation Commission's (ACC) March 4, 2026, regular open meeting, Chairman Nick Myers joined the Commission in a 5-0 vote to finalize its repeal of the Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff Rules (REST rules) (A.A.C. Title 14, Chapter 2, Article 18). The Commission began the process of repe  more

JUNO BEACH, Florida, March 6 -- Florida Power and Light, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, issued the following news release on March 5, 2026: * * * Florida Power & Light surpasses $1 billion in annual fuel savings for customers * Plant modernizations, energy investments help avoid fuel costs to keep customer bills as low as possible, while delivering award-winning reliability * Diverse power generation fleet saved customers more than $1.2 billion in 2025 alone * Florida Power & Light Compan  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on March 5, 2026: * * * Heinrich and Whitehouse Joint Statement on Permitting Reform Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the follo  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories * When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves, that reverberate across space and time, over hundreds of millions and even billions of years. By the time they pass through Earth, such   more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Pepco issued the following news release on March 4, 2026: * * * Pepco Reinforces Commitment to Fight Rising Energy Costs as Part of "The Exelon Promise" Customer-first strategy from parent company, Exelon, delivers local relief, customer protections, and long-term solutions to ease burden on families and small businesses * As families and small businesses across the District of Columbia and Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland continue to face higher en  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued report number PNNL-37677, titled 'Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe Strategic Energy Plan,' authored by Shannon Idso, Kristen Jones, Malcolm Moncheur de Rieudotte, Andrea Mengual, Lindsay Sheridan, Molly Grear, Nicole Harvey, Travis Stanislaus, Shoko Chapple from PNNL, and Eriq Acosta, Haya Munoz, Lindsey Bear from Spark Northwest. The document, prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830, app  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Illinois, issued the following statement on March 5, 2026: * * * Budzinski Statement on Vote Against Farm Bill Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, released the following statement on her vote against the Farm Bill. "I take seriously my responsibility to craft a Farm Bill that puts good policy over partisan politics. Unfortunately, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle do not feel the   more

WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Energy] -- The American Clean Power Association posted the following news release: * * * REPORT: Clean Power Adds Record 50 GW in 2025 As Surging Electricity Demand Accelerates * * U.S. clean power delivers 90% of all new capacity added to the grid in 2025 as developers plug in a record 50,344 MW. * Energy storage installations jumped 41% year over year, exceeding 2024 levels by nearly 4 GW and marking another record-breaking year for batteries. * Amid rising  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 5 -- Save the Sound issued the following news release on March 4, 2026: * * * Public Hearing on the Future of CT Solar Hartford, CT--Tomorrow, March 5th, the Environment and Technology Committee of the Connecticut State Legislature will hold a public hearing to discuss the future of solar in the state. As the Connecticut Coalition for Climate Action, one of our main policy priorities is making it easier and cheaper for CT families and businesses to go solar. Ab  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 6 -- Tucson Electric Power issued the following news release: * * * TEP Opposes Proposed Municipal Utility Options as Costly, Impractical In Brief * Three potential options for a municipal electric utility proposed by City of Tucson staff would commit significant public resources to efforts that would not benefit city residents or businesses. * The proposals are described as steps toward a larger acquisition of Tucson Electric Power's local energy grid in the future,   more

WASHINGTON, March 3 (TNSLrpt) -- USDA's Economic Research Service has published "Characterizing foreign investment in U.S. agricultural land, 2022" (Economic Information Bulletin EIB 292) by Noah Miller, Clayton Winters Michaud, and Bassmah Isa, dated February 2026. The report uses Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) data to compare foreign owned land with long term foreign leased land (leases of 10 or more years) and to document their uses, locations, and business structures   more