MOLINE, Illinois, June 18 (TNSAwa) -- Black Hawk College issued the following news release: Congratulations to 44 Black Hawk College student-athletes for earning National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Arrowhead Academic All-Conference awards! The following BHC student-athletes were honored for achieving a 3.0 GPA or higher during the 2020-21 school year and completing at least 12 credit hours per semester. The honorees are listed by sport and hometown. Baseball * Bartlett, IL -  more

CANBERRA, Australia, June 18 -- The Australian Department of Industry, Innovation and Science's Minister for Industry, Science and Technology issued the following news release: An Australian innovation that will help protect mothers and babies during childbirth is one of eight projects to share in $3.2 million in funding from the Morrison Government's Accelerating Commercialisation grants program. VitalTrace will use its $468,346 grant to commercialise its monitoring device, which will allow o  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 18 (TNSOps) -- Ceres, a non-profit organization that is mobilizing many of the world's largest companies and investors to take stronger action on climate change, water scarcity and other global sustainability challenges, issued the following news release on June 17, 2021: Today's vote by a majority of Delta Air Lines shareholders to seek information on how Delta's climate lobbying aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement caps a winning streak of five climate lobb  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Rep. Ro Khanna, D-California, chair of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Environment, issued the following news release: Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, held a hearing to examine how Congress can bring jobs and justice to Forgotten America. At the start of the hearing, Chairman Khanna outlined two bills that Congress should immediately pass: 1. The THRIVE Act, which would invest a trillion dollars a year and create more   more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Energy and Fuels, a peer-reviewed scientific journal from the American Chemical Society that says it publishes research in the intersection of chemistry and chemical engineering and non-nuclear energy and fuels, published research articles, including the following topics, in its June 17, 2021 edition: Reviews: * Review of Research Related to Fluid Cokers * Catalytic Strategies for Levoglucosenone Production by Pyrolysis of Cellulose and Lignocellulosic Biomass Fossil   more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 18 (TNSRes) -- The Environment Ohio Research and Policy Center issued the following news release: Special interest groups are working in coordination with local utilities to stall the growth of rooftop solar here in Ohio, according to a new report released Thursday by Environment Ohio Research & Policy Center and Ohio PIRG Research and Policy Center. In Ohio, FirstEnergy has targeted pro-solar policies like net-metering and other benefits. The report, Blocking Rooftop Sola  more

NEW YORK, June 18 (TNSOps) -- The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility issued the following news release on June 17, 2021: Today's vote by a majority of Delta Air Lines shareholders to seek information on how Delta's climate lobbying aligns with the goals of the Paris Agreement caps a winning streak of five climate lobbying proposals garnering majority votes this season, underscoring the importance of climate policy alignment. "Corporations have a significant impact on climate policy,  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 18 -- Public Citizen issued the following news release on June 17, 2021: The Connecticut General Assembly passed a bill implementing the state budget, which includes a provision requiring the Connecticut Department of Insurance to address the climate-related risks of insurers. This provision, Section 346 of the bill, will be the nation's first law requiring insurers to address climate risk. Section 346 incorporates the supervision and regulation provisions of SB 10  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: As Congress deliberates a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure and green energy, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Wednesday to introduce legislation to drastically drive down the harmful emissions causing climate change and putting Americans' health and the global econom  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on June 17, 2021: A broad coalition of climate activists, union workers, environmental justice advocates, and business leaders have thrown their support behind the Save Our Future Act, new legislation introduced yesterday by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI). The Save Our Future Act would drastically drive down the harmful emissions causing climate change and putting Americ  more

KINGSTON, Tennessee, June 18 (TNSEve) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: This week, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the retirement of the Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee. Through the upcoming EIS process, TVA will identify the timeline to retire the plant's nine coal units and options for replacement generation. More than 12 years after one of the worst environmental disasters i  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. WB 20-50) entitled "Request For Waybill Data": Digest:/1 This decision denies an appeal of a ruling by the Director of the Office of Economics relating to access to the Confidential Carload Waybill Sample. Trinity Industries, Inc. (Trinity), has appealed a ruling by the Director of the Board's Office of Economics (Director) denying Trinity's request for access t  more