WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony by Jesse D. Jenkins, assistant professor at Princeton University, as part of a video conference hearing entitled "Lessons Learned from the Texas Blackouts: Research Needs for a Secure and Resilient Grid" on March 18, 2021: * * * My name is Jesse Jenkins. I am an energy systems engineer and an assistant professor at Princeton University with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanica  more

VICTORIA, British Columbia, March 20 -- Royal Roads University issued the following news release on March 19, 2021: Historic Hatley Castle at Royal Roads University is a Canadian landmark and a connection to Edwardian life on a grand scale. It's also a complicated and contentious legacy of the ongoing colonization of Indigenous Lands. James Dunsmuir was a coal baron, industrialist, former Premier and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. He was also a controversial figure who was known to u  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on March 19, 2021: Community leaders across New Mexico applaud today's House passage of Senate Bill 8. Now more than ever, New Mexicans understand the importance of protecting our health, air, and climate. Antiquated state laws prevent the Environmental Improvement Board and local air quality boards from adopting regulations under Air Quality Control Act and the Hazardous Waste Act that are stronger than the federal regul  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 20 -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on March 19, 2021: This afternoon, a bankruptcy court issued a ruling that allows the Blackjewel coal company to immediately abandon cleanup obligations at 33 coal mines in Kentucky. An additional 171 Blackjewel permits in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia will be placed into a legal limbo to potentially make them available to new ownership. Any of those permits that do not transfer to new ow  more

BRIGHTON, England, March 20 (TNSRes) -- The University of Sussex issued the following news release on March 19, 2021: The US energy sector generates more than $1.745 trillion of additional unaccounted costs every year, new research from the University of Sussex Business School and Hanyang University reveals. The true social, environmental and health costs of the US energy sector dwarves the entire revenues of the country's electricity industry ($390 billion) and its upstream oil and gas indust  more