BASEL, Switzerland, May 10 -- Buildings, a peer-reviewed open access journal that focuses on building science, building engineering and architecture design, published research articles, including the following topics, in its May 2021 edition: Articles: * Determining Critical Success Factors for Public-Private Partnership Asset-Backed Securitization: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach * Study on the Corroded Hollow Section RC Columns Strengthened by ICCP-SS System * Inelastic Dynamic Ec  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: This week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins dredging contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River Area of Concern at Howards Bay in Superior, Wisconsin. St. Louis River AOC is one of the 43 AOCs identified by the United States and Canada in the mid-1980s as the most environmentally degraded areas in the Great Lakes ecosystem. Sediment in Howards Bay is polluted with contaminants typica  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Through an NETL-funded project, researchers from New Mexico State University and Arizona State University are taking cues from wildlife to create a new generation of autonomous robots to monitor and inspect vital energy and civil infrastructure. Power plants, chemical plants, gas, oil and water distribution networks all contain critical tubular structures for flu  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, May 11 (TNSOps) -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news release on May 10, 2021: The Nature Conservancy today announced an innovative collaboration with two renewable energy companies who will pursue the development of some of the first utility-scale solar projects in the Central Appalachian coalfields. The two companies include Charlottesville, Virginia-based Sun Tribe, and Washington, D.C.-based Sol Systems. The solar systems will be built on former coal mines  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, chair of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Environment, issued the following news release on May 10, 2021: Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, released a Fact Sheet detailing reasons to repeal fossil fuel subsidies. The fossil fuel industry plays by different tax rules than the rest of American business, spends over $100 million in political contributions to preserve their preferential treatment an  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Water Environment Research, a peer-reviewed journal from the Water Environment Federation that says it features water quality, pollution control and management, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2021 edition: CASE STUDY: * Evaluating tannery wastewater treatment performance based on physicochemical and microbiological characteristics: An Ethiopian case study SHORT COMMUNICATION: * Application of xylitol on nitrogen removal from saline wastew  more

EUGENE, Oregon, May 11 (TNSPol) -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service's 2020 approval of a plan that allows fracking across 35,000 acres of Colorado's Western Slope. The North Fork Mancos Master Development Plan allows 35 new fracking wells in the North Fork Valley and Thompson Divide areas of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests.   more