CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 20 -- Travero, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, issued the following news release: Travero, the logistics solutions subsidiary of Alliant Energy and parent company of CRANDIC Rail, announces a transition in executive leadership. Kevin Burke is retiring as president of Travero on April 1 after 40 years with the company. Lisha Coffey becomes the president of Travero after most recently serving as the company's chief operating officer. "Travero will continue to drive busi  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law issued the following testimony by Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, acting chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, at a hearing entitled "Reviving Competition, Part 3: Strengthening the Laws to Address Monopoly Power" on March 18, 2021: * * * I am Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, and I welcome the opportunity to testify about modernizing and strengthen  more

NEW YORK, March 15 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following commentary: * * * UN Spotlight on Killing of South African Environmental Defender By Katharina Rall, Senior Researcher, Environment and Human Rights and Billy Mnqondo, Community Environmental Activist It is almost five months since an environmental activist, Mama Fikile Ntshangase, was gunned down in her home in Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal province, after raising concerns about a coal mine in the area. No arrests have been made. Ma  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. David McKinley, R-West Virginia, ranking Republican member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change, issued the following opening remarks on March 18, 2021, at a hearing entitled "The CLEAN Future Act: Industrial Climate Policies to Create Jobs and Support Working Communities": * * * Excerpts and highlights from his remarks: ON THE DEMOCRATS' CLEAN ENERGY PLAN "During the Vietnam war an American general was paraphrased sayin  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. John A. Yarmuth, D-Kentucky, issued the following news release: Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) reintroduced H.R. 2073, the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, legislation to halt all new mountaintop removal coal mining permits until federal officials can examine the practice's health effects on surrounding communities. Yarmuth's legislation would task the Department of Health and Human Services with conducting the first-ever comprehensive federal stu  more