WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) joined fellow Ways and Means Republican Reps. David Schweikert (R-AZ) and Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) to introduce legislation as part of House Republicans' new Energy Innovation Agenda. The bill, which is supported by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), would improve and permanently extend 45Q, the tax credit for carbon capture and sequestration, to encourage incre  more

NEW YORK, April 20 -- The U.S. Court of International Trade issued the following slip opinion (Court No. 19-00145): QINGDAO SEA-LINE INTERNATIONAL TRADING CO., LTD., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant, and FRESH GARLIC PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION, AND ITS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS CHRISTOPHER RANCH, L.L.C., THE GARLIC COMPANY, AND VALLEY GARLIC, Defendant-Intervenors. Before: Gary S. Katzmann, Judge OPINION [The court denies Plaintiff's motion for judgment on the agency record and sustains Commerce  more

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, April 20 -- Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron issued the following news release on April 19, 2021: Attorney General Daniel Cameron today announced his Office of Rate Intervention (ORI) reached a settlement agreement with Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities (KU) to save Kentuckians $113.9 million in proposed electric and gas rate increases. The proposed settlement was signed by all intervenors, including Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on April 19, 2021: As part of the ongoing POWERGEN+ series of presentations, NETL's Tom Sarkus provided an in-depth look at how the power plant workforce will change in both the near- and long-term, as markets shift toward renewables, new technologies and operations emerge and workplace demographics and expectations evolve. "The new Administration is committed t  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., and other NETL leaders will meet with faculty at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on Tuesday, April 20, for discissions about key lab initiatives (KLIs) and their potential to intersect with research undertaken by the Pittsburgh university. "Partnerships between NETL and CMU have yielded a number of revolutionary energy-rela  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following report (No. PNNL-31059) in March 2021 by Nathalie Voisin, James O'Brien, Wenwei Xu, Debbie Rose and Michael White entitled "Water Resource Opportunities at Lake Gazivode/Ujmani": Here are excerpts: Summary Lake Gazivode/Ujmani is a 15-mile long man-made reservoir that straddles the Serbian-Kosovo border. The lake was created by the construction of the Gazivode/Ujmani Dam on the I  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled: "Carbon Utilization Technologies" at 10 a.m. on April 22, 2021, in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC: The purpose of the hearing is to examine the opportunities and challenges that exist for advancing and deploying carbon and carbon-dioxide (CO2) utilization technologies in the United States. Members of the committee may participate i  more

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the following speech on April 19, 2021, by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the Philip Merrill Environmental Center: * * * SECRETARY BLINKEN: And Will, thank you for a wonderful introduction. And thank you for lending us this absolutely spectacular setting and backdrop - certainly the best setting and backdrop I've had in my brief tenure as Secretary. And thanks so much to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for your lasting commitme  more