WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- ACS Omega, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science from the American Chemical Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Aug. 31, 2021 edition: MINI-REVIEWS: * Hydroxamic Acid Derivatives: From Synthetic Strategies to Medicinal Chemistry Applications ARTICLES: * Temperature- and Defect-Induced Uniaxial Tensile Mechanical Behaviors and the Fracture Mechanism of Two-Dimension  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (TNSPol) -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release on Aug. 30, 2021: Congress is poised to make historic investments to tackle climate change, but lawmakers should also use the budget reconciliation process to raise money for climate action on public lands, according to a new column from the Center for American Progress. The column describes the government's broken fossil fuel and mineral leasing programs and outlines fiscally responsible and bip  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (TNSRep) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on Aug. 31, 2021, entitled "Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Blended Finance, and Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa". The report was written by Daniel F. Runde, enior vice president, director of the project on prosperity and development, and William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis, Conor M. Savoy, senior fellow with the project on prosperity and development, and Janina Stagu  more

LONDON, England, Sept. 1 (TNSOps) -- Greenpeace UK issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2021: THE UK government will be up in court tomorrow [WEDS 1] as Greenpeace challenges its decision to grant BP a permit to drill for 30 million barrels of oil without taking climate impacts into account. In a landmark case that will cause much embarrassment for the government just two months before it hosts global climate talks in Glasgow, Greenpeace will call for the government's decision to be o  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Sept. 1 (TNSRep) -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2021: The Nature Conservancy (TNC) released the St. Louis EcoUrban Assessment Tool. The interactive tool includes GIS data on air quality, asthma rates, flooding and stormwater issues, food access, tree canopy coverage and other environmental and socioeconomic factors. It covers both St. Louis County and City in Missouri along with St. Clair and Madison counties in Illinois. Informed b  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Sept. 1 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on Aug. 31, 2021: * * * U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the below statement following the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona's decision to strike down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the below statement following the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona's decision to strike down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR): "This opinion highlights EPA's lack of transparency around  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following joint statement: * * * On the occasion of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry's visit to Japan, Japan and the United States issued the following statement: The United States and Japan, alarmed by the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and other indicators of the growing need for accelerating and deepening emission reductions, are committed to making the 2020s the decisive decade for climat  more

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 1 (TNSJou) -- Tokyo Institute of Technology issued the following news release: Radical reactivity of aromatic molecules 9-phosphaanthracenes is difficult to analyze using conventional techniques due to their short lifetimes. To overcome this analytical hurdle, a team of scientists from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) led by Dr. Shigekazu Ito resorted to muon spin resonance/rotation spectroscopy and density field theory calculations to explore the molecular mot  more

MONTREAL, Quebec, Sept. 1 -- The Commission for Environmental Cooperation issued the following news release: The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is pleased to announce the winners of the fifth annual Youth Innovation Challenge, selected among submissions from Canada, Mexico and the United States. For the first time ever, the CEC chose four winners for the Youth Innovation Challenge. * Gabriel Saunders (Canada): "Decomp" - an organic plastic waste disposal solution that utilizes   more