SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 17 (TNSPol) -- The Environmental Law and Policy Center issued the following news release: The Illinois Pollution Control Board's finalization of coal ash regulations makes significant strides to rectify coal's toxic footprint in Illinois. The rules create a comprehensive framework for the detection and clean up of coal ash contamination of groundwater -- the first in the state's history to specifically address this pollution. Not only do the new rules create a new p  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources issued the following testimony by Mary Kang, assistant professor in civil engineering at McGill University, as part of a remote hearing entitled "Building Back Better: Creating Jobs and Reducing Pollution by Plugging and Reclaiming Orphaned Wells" on April 15, 2021: * * * My name is Mary Kang and I'm an assistant professor in Civil Engineering at McGill University. My research focuses on characteri  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources issued the following testimony by Ted Boettner, senior researcher at the Ohio River Valley Institute, as part of a virtual hearing entitled "Building Back Better: Creating Jobs and Reducing Pollution by Plugging and Reclaiming Orphaned Wells" on April 15, 2021: * * * My name is Ted Boettner. I am a senior researcher at the Ohio River Valley Institute, and I live and work in Charleston, West Virgini  more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release on April 16, 2021: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today issued two Secretarial Orders to prioritize action on climate change throughout the Department and to restore transparency and integrity in the Department's decision-making processes. SO 3399 establishes a Climate Task Force to coordinate work across the Department, including accelerating renewable energy development and identifying action  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL leaders participated in the recent kickoff meeting of the Advanced Welding Workforce Initiative (AWWI) to discuss how the new program will provide workers with needed technical skills to fill good-paying jobs in the energy sector and emerging industries across Appalachia. "The need for welders with advanced technical skills is critical to operate and servi  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on April 16, 2021: NETL together with the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) to hold a joint workshop on April 16th as part of the PQI2021 Virtual Workshop on quantum information science, held April 13-16. As a free workshop, PQI2021 gave attendees the opportunity to explore panel discussions on   more

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on April 16, 2021: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced $6 million in Federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002405, Advanced Coal Waste Processing: Production of Coal-Enhanced Filaments or Resins for Advanced Manufacturing and Research and Development of C  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 17 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: The Illinois Pollution Control Board's finalization of coal ash regulations makes significant strides to rectify coal's toxic footprint in Illinois. The rules create a comprehensive framework for the detection and clean up of coal ash contamination of groundwater -- the first in the state's history to specifically address this pollution. Not only do the new rules create a new precedent for cleaning up  more

REGINA, Saskatchewan, April 17 (TNSOps) -- The University of Regina issued the following news release: To help meet Canada's climate change goals, the University of Regina has launched the Canadian Energy Transition Hub (CETH), a foundational part of the country's clean-energy solution. Canada has joined 120 countries in committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, which means our carbon emissions will be offset by an equal amount of carbon being removed or absorbed from the atmosphere. Th  more

DENVER, Colorado, April 17 (TNSPol) -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release on April 16, 2021: WildEarth Guardians today cheered Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's latest actions to protect the climate and public lands, and to restore transparency, public accountability, environmental scrutiny, and justice in the U.S. Department of the Interior. "Today is a watershed moment in the history of the U.S. Department of the Interior," said Jeremy Nichols, climate and energy program di  more