BOONE, North Carolina, March 13 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Coalitions of Appalachian leaders and advocates urge Congress to back investments in economic development, flood recovery, miner health and mine reclamation * APPALACHIA - As Appalachian communities work to find a path forward amid massive federal cuts and dangerous policy rollbacks, dozens of local and regional organizations formally called on congressional appropriators t  more

AUSTIN, Texas, March 14 (TNSjou) -- The Environmental Integrity Project issued the following news release: * * * EIP Releases 2024 Industrial Greenhouse Gas Data After Trump Halts Reporting Program Industries Reported Releasing 2.69 Billion Metric Tons of Greenhouse Gases in 2024, Continuing a Downward Trend * The Trump Administration has put on hold EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which makes climate pollution data from industry available to the public. But the Environmental Integr  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * ICYMI: Administrator Zeldin in Washington Reporter: Why the Trump Administration Launched the Greatest and Most Consequential Year of Deregulation in American History * WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin published an op-ed Exit EPA's website in the Washington Reporter detailing the historic deregulatory agenda and progress this agency has u  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on March 12, 2026: * * * ICYMI: Fox News Op-Ed from Sen. Lummis: Don't hand China the nuclear future - build it here at home Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) published an op-ed this morning in Fox News highlighting how the United States - and Wyoming - are seizing the moment to lead in nuclear energy and working to avoid handing the nuclear future to China. Read the full op-ed here (  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Energy announced the filing of a coal capability self-certification by Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based Long Ridge Energy Generation LLC, regarding its baseload electric generating powerplant located in Hannibal, Ohio. Under the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, as amended, no baseload electric powerplant may be constructed or operated without the capability to use coal or another alternate fuel as a primary energy source. Owner  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, March 13 -- East Tennessee State University posted the following news: * * * New ETSU exhibits reveal mining's human cost * New exhibits at ETSU's Archives of Appalachia highlight powerful photojournalism documenting the human and environmental costs of coal mining in Appalachia. In one haunting photograph, coal miners emerge from underground darkness, their faces etched with exhaustion and coal dust. Connecting these images is a length of Primer Cord - the same il  more

WASHINGTON, March 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy issued the following news release: * * * NRC Issues Construction Permit for TerraPower's Natrium Advanced Reactor Decision marks the first construction permit ever issued by the NRC for a commercial non-light-water power reactor. * The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) just announced the approval of a construction permit for TerraPower's Natrium advanced reactor project in Kemmerer, Wyoming. This is the  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * Obama Admitted That Electricity Prices Would Skyrocket Under His Policies * Key Takeaways 1 In 2008, President Obama told the nation that his policies would make electricity prices skyrocket. 2 That, and a follow-up regulatory environment from the Biden administration, made it come to fruition by changing the U.S. electrical system, crippling its ability to maintain sufficien  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 14 (TNSjou) -- The University of Wyoming posted the following news: * * * UW SER Researchers Release Publication on Rare Earth Elements in Wyoming and Montana Coal Researchers at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources (SER) have published a pioneering study in the International Journal of Coal Geology. The study represents a first-of-its-kind explanation of rare earth element enrichment in Powder River Basin coals. The geological process paper, titled "R  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen, Whitehouse, Heinrich Probe AI Companies About Plans for Colossal Gas-Powered Data Centers * U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) today launched an   more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 13 [Category: BizEnergy] -- Xcel Energy issued the following news release: * * * Xcel Energy is prepared for another blast of winter * EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - (March 13, 2026) -Xcel Energy is monitoring and preparing for possible power outages due to high winds and snow across the Upper Midwest over the next few days. In addition to the wind today, forecasts show potential for heavy snow Saturday through Monday morning in northwestern Wisconsin with additional wind.   more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 12 [Category: BizEnergy] -- Xcel Energy issued the following news release: * * * Xcel Energy prepares for high winds and snow in the Upper Midwest * MINNEAPOLIS (March 12, 2026) -Xcel Energy is staffing additional field crews to prepare for possible power outages due to high winds and snow across the Upper Midwest over the next few days. Forecasts show severe wind gusts of up to 65 mph beginning this evening into Friday morning in portions of central and souther  more