WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on July 6, 2021, entitled "The Unlikely, Indispensable U.S.-Vietnam Partnership". The report was written by Gregory B. Poling, senior fellow for Southeast Asia and director of the Asia maritime transparency initiative, Simon Tran Hudes, research associate for the Southeast Asia program, and Andreyka Natalegawa, research assistant for the Southeast Asia program. * * * The U.S.-Vietnam relations  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, July 10 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: Following a comprehensive application review and public comment period, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Waste Management (DWM) has issued a permit to allow Duke Energy to construct and operate a new, lined onsite landfill at the Belews Creek Steam Station for the disposal of excavated coal ash. The issuance of the permit for the Ash Basin Land  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, July 10 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on July 9, 2021: The Dane County Circuit Court held a hearing today to hear testimony on former Public Service Commissioner Mike Huebsch's potential conflict of interest when he voted to approve the proposed $700 million Nemadji Trail Energy Center (NTEC) gas plant in Superior, Wisconsin. These issues came to light when it was revealed that, shortly after Huebsch voted to approve the controversial gas plan  more

NEW YORK, July 10 -- The United Nations issued the following remarks by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the 3rd Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors: * * * We are now in the second year of a global pandemic that has killed 4 million people. Extreme climate events regularly devastate vulnerable communities. You have come together to determine the course of some of the most pressing issues we face: access to vaccines; extending an economic lifeline to the dev  more

BROOKWOOD, Alabama, July 10 (TNSOps) -- The United Mine Workers of America issued the following news release on July 9, 2021: The wife of a striking miner was hit while peacefully and legally walking a picket line at Warrior Met Coal here yesterday in other instance of company-inspired violence as Warrior Met attempts to intimidate strikers to return to work. "She was obeying the orders of the Sherriff's Deputy to stay out of the way of vehicles as they were going in and out of the mine," said  more