LEXINGTON, Kentucky, April 3 (TNSPar) -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news: On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps as a volunteer agency in the U.S Department of State. Sixty years later, as the agency celebrates its diamond anniversary, University of Kentucky Libraries' Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History is continuing its work with local and national partners to preserve many of the stories and experiences of  more

LEWISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 3 (TNSPro) -- Bucknell University issued the following news: An art auction inspired by Bucknell University's Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program with the State Correctional Institute at Coal Township is being conducted to benefit Transitions of PA, a Lewisburg-based nonprofit that supports victims of domestic violence. Taylor Oxley '21, a Bucknell sociology and psychology major with a minor in social justice, is co-leading the fundraising project called "Art from  more

NEW YORK, April 3 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 20-00007): CARBON ACTIVATED TIANJIN CO., LTD. AND CARBON ACTIVATED CORPORATION, ET AL., Plaintiffs, and BEIJING PACIFIC ACTIVATED CARBON PRODUCTS CO., LTD. AND NINGXIA GUANGHUA CHERISHMET ACTIVATED CARBON CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and CALGON CARBON CORPORATION AND CABOT NORIT AMERICAS, INC., Defendant-Intervenors. Before: Mark A. Barnett, Judge OPINION  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on April 1, 2021: * * * Gas Line, Q1 2021 By Nikos Tsafos, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Energy Security and Climate Change Program Gas Line is a quarterly publication that looks at major news stories in global gas--ranging from project development to markets and geopolitics. My goal is not to cover every story but to draw connections between stories across time and space in order t  more

NEW YORK, March 30 (TNSPol) -- Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives issued the following news release: More than 50 environmental and human rights groups have urged the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to stop funding waste-to-energy incinerators as the world faces climate, health, and economic crises. In a letter addressed to the Bank, the groups called on ADB to exclude waste-to-energy (WtE) incineration and other thermal-based technologies from the list of renewable energy sources and c  more

WASHINGTON, April 2 (TNSPol) -- The Institute for Energy Research issued the following commentary on April 1, 2021: * * * Biden's Infrastructure Bill: Green Handouts for the Politically Connected By Alexander Stevens, Policy Analyst Yesterday, President Biden unveiled his $2 trillion infrastructure proposal during a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As others have noted, the plan is an unnecessary corporate welfare scheme that "doubles down on everything that makes American infrastructure   more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 3 (TNSJou) -- Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news release: While the World Bank and other multilateral development banks are increasingly investing in renewable technologies and phasing out coal power financing, several of the world's largest national-level funders -- East Asian development finance institutions -- are among the last public financiers supporting coal power plants. An analysis led by Princeton r  more

SANTA MONICA, California, April 2 -- Rand issued the following commentary on April 1, 2021: * * * Constantine Samaras, Director, Center for Engineering and Resilience for Climate Adaptation, Carnegie Mellon University Mikhail Chester, Director, Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University Finally, it looks like Infrastructure Week is going to happen. Decades of disinvestment gave the country an infrastructure system that recently earned a "C-" on   more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Rep. Tom O'Halleran, D-Arizona, issued the following statement: * * * Following President Biden's announcement of the American Jobs Plan--a legislative proposal to invest in our nation's roads, bridges, broadband deployment, community health centers, schools, and more, Congressman Tom O'Halleran (AZ-01) released the following statement: "Providing clean drinking water, rebuilding our nation's roads, ensuring all Arizonans have access to high-speed broadband, investing i  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, April 3 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following statement: * * * U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) issued the following statement on the upcoming 11th anniversary of the tragedy that killed 29 miners at the Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine disaster in Whitesville, West Virginia. "Eleven years ago, West Virginia suffered an immeasurable loss when 29 brave West Virginia coal miners were killed in the UBB mine disaster. "Not a day goes by that I don't thin  more