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Appalachian Voices: Congress Fails to Reauthorize Abandoned Coal Mine Lands Program Before Deadline, Creating New Uncertainty & Threatening Job Creation
BOONE, North Carolina, Oct. 2 (TNSPol) -- Appalachian Voices issued the following news release:
The authorization of funding for the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) fund officially expired at midnight Thursday. This lapse in funding brings a new level of uncertainty to the AML program, which is responsible for cleaning up dangerous highwalls, open mine portals, and polluted streams left by the coal industry all over the country.
Legislators have known since 2006 that the AML Program needed to be rea
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Australia, India Trade Deal
CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 2 -- The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Dan Tehan, issued the following joint news release on Oct. 1, 2021, with Piyush Goyal, minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food, and Public Distribution and Textiles:
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Mr Piyush Goyal, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food, and Public Distribution and Textiles, and Mr Dan Tehan MP, Minister for Trade, Tourism
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British P.M. Johnson Call With South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa
LONDON, England, Oct. 1 -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
The Prime Minister spoke to South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa today, ahead of the G20 and COP26.
They discussed how the UK and South Africa can work together on accelerating the shift away from coal and towards renewable energy, to support the effort to limit global temperature rises.
The leaders agreed on the importance of meeting the $100bn target to help developing co
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British P.M. Johnson Meeting With Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa
LONDON, England, Oct. 1 -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
The Prime Minister welcomed Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa to Downing Street today.
They discussed the strength of the UK-Slovenian relationship over the last 30 years, including in trade and our shared foreign policy work. They agreed on the need to encourage stability and prosperity in the whole Western Balkans region.
The leaders talked about the fight against Covid-19
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British P.M. Johnson Speaks at Youth4Climate Conference
LONDON, England, Oct. 1 -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued the following speech at the Youth4Climate conference on Sept. 30, 2021:
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PM Boris Johnson addressed thousands of young climate activists from around the world via videolink at the Youth4Climate conference in Italy.
Thank you, thank you very much Mr President, distinguished guests, ladies and gentleman.
Great speech Mario and ciao from Londra. I'm very sorry I'm not able to be with you today, but I just want to say to
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Bureau of Economic Analysis: Gross Domestic Product, GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits, 2Q 2021
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 6.7 percent in the second quarter of 2021 (table 1), according to the "third" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 6.3 percent.
The "third" estimate of GDP released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the "
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Center for American Progress: Understanding China's Approach to Climate in the Lead-Up to COP26
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (TNSRes) -- The Center for American Progress issued the following news release:
Understanding China's approach to climate is vital in the lead-up to the COP26 climate summit in November, according to a new column from the Center for American Progress.
As world leaders push to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius, China's energy trajectory is in the spotlight. China's emissions surged by 9 percent in the first quarter of 2021 alone compared with pre-pandemic
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Center for Biological Diversity: Report - Electric Utilities Took $1.25 Billion in Pandemic Bailouts, Shut Off Power to Households Nearly 1 Million Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (TNSRep) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
The Center for Biological Diversity and BailoutWatch today released Powerless in the Pandemic, a report showing that some of the nation's top utilities received a collective $1.25 billion from last year's government bailouts while shutting off families' electric service nearly 1 million times.
The report shows that utilities wielded political power to secure beneficial tax-co
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Coalition for Prosperous America: Chinese Solar Companies Manufacture Fake Crisis in Blatant Attempt to Undermine Biden Administration's Trade Enforcement Remedies
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (TNSPol) -- The Coalition for a Prosperous America issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released a statement after five Chinese solar companies--LONGi Green Energy, JinkoSolar, Trina Solar, JA Solar and Risen Energy--issued a statement in a blatant attempt to undermine the Biden administration's trade enforcement actions and scare the U.S. solar industry into manufacturing a crisis.
Four of these Chinese solar compan
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Decade of False Solutions: Our Position on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Package & Build Back Better Act
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (TNSPol) -- The Climate Justice Alliance issued the following joint agency statement with Indigenous Environmental Network and Grassroots Global Justice Alliance:
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Let us be frank. As communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and fossil fuel extraction, our situation is dire. While we experience unparalleled disaster in the form of floods, fires, droughts, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples and state-sanctioned violence against Indigenous and Black communit
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Environment & Climate Change Canada: Canada Joins Over 40 Countries at Final, Formal Multilateral Opportunity to Prepare for COP26
MILAN, Italy, Oct. 2 -- Environment and Climate Change Canada issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Six years ago, the world came together to sign onto the Paris Agreement--an historic agreement amongst nations to ambitiously fight climate change and adapt to its impacts. The science says that in order to keep the goals of the Paris Agreement within reach and avert the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to do more, and on a faster timeline. That is why over 190 countr
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Global Wind Energy Council Creates Africa WindPower to Accelerate Africa's Energy Transition
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 1 (TNSOps) -- The Global Wind Energy Council issued the following news release:
The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has launched Africa WindPower ("AWP") to address a clear need for a regional body representing the wind industry.
AWP offers a platform for dialogue between Africa's wind industry and government stakeholders, with the ultimate goal of scaling up and accelerating wind project development and deployment across the entire African continent. With sufficient
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N.C. Gov. Cooper, Legislative Leaders Reach Agreement on Major Energy Legislation
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 2 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Governor Roy Cooper, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, House Speaker Tim Moore, Senate Democratic Leader Dan Blue and House Democratic Leader Robert Reives have reached an agreement on key energy legislation. The bipartisan compromise is expected to move through the legislature next week.
The leaders issued the following statements:
Governor Roy Cooper: "This bipartisa
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National Energy Technology Laboratory Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Power Research Showcased at Shale Insight 2021
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news:
NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., joined U.S. Department of Energy Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Jennifer Wilcox in highlighting the Lab's research into carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen power technologies that could be keys to success in America's unfolding energy transformation during the 2021 Shale I
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Objections Target Biden's Oil Leasing Plan Amid Climate 'Code Red'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (TNSPol) -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Conservation groups today filed formal objections to the Biden administration's plans to offer 734,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing amid what the president himself has called a climate "code red." Oil and gas in the proposed leases contain up to 246 million tons of climate pollution, as much as 62 coal-fired power plants emit in one year.
"We can't confront the climate crisis
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Objections Target Biden's Oil Leasing Plan Amid Climate 'Code Red'
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (TNSPol) -- Waterkeeper Alliance issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Conservation groups filed formal objections today to the Biden administration's plans to offer 734,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing amid what the president himself has called a climate "code red." Oil and gas in the proposed leases contain up to 246 million tons of climate pollution, as much as 62 coal-fired power plants emit in one year.
Today's filing with the U.S. Bureau of
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Objections Target Biden's Oil Leasing Plan Amid Climate 'Code Red'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (TNSPol) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Conservation groups filed formal objections today to the Biden administration's plans to offer 734,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing amid what the president himself has called a climate "code red." Oil and gas in the proposed leases contain up to 246 million tons of climate pollution, as much as 62 coal-fired power plants emit in one year.
Today's filing with the U.S. Bureau o
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Rice University: Army Backs Bid to 'Flash' Waste Into Useful Materials
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 1 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release:
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Grant to Rice enables expansion of discovery that produced graphene from food, plastic
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Where others see a pile of trash, Rice University chemist James Tour sees a figurative gold mine.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers agrees, and it will work with Tour and his collaborators through a $5.2 million, four-year grant to reclaim valuable materials from waste through flash Joule heating.
Among the i
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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee Sets Oct. 6 Legislative Hearing
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks issued the following information for a legislative hearing at 10 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2021, at 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building:
The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:
* S. 336, to amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to reauthorize the Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway, and for other purposes;
* S. 378, to reauthorize the Rivers of St
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Sens. Capito, Manchin Announce $180k for Mine Safety in West Virginia
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $180,000 from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to Marshall University and West Virginia University Research Corporations for mine safety. The funding is from the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety Grants P
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Sens. Capito, Manchin Announce $2.6 Million Economic Development Administration Grant for Clean Energy Products Manufacturing in Clarksburg
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), today announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Harrison County Commission in Clarksburg, West Virgin
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Sens. Capito, Manchin Announce $2.6M EDA Grant for Clean Energy Products Manufacturing in Clarksburg
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), today announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Harrison County Commission in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Specifically, the grant will be used to help build and establish
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Sens. Manchin, Capito Announce $2.6M EDA Grant for Clean Energy Products Manufacturing in Clarksburg
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Harrison County Commission in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Specifically, the grant will be used to help build and establish a clean energy p
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Sierra Club: Clearing Up Some Myths About the Clean Electricity Performance Program
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (TNSRep) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release:
Right now Congress has a historic opportunity to reduce pollution, protect community health, and mitigate the climate crisis by passing the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), which would drive a transition to 100% clean electricity by 2035 - and create nearly 8 million jobs in the process. The House Energy and Commerce committee recently passed the CEPP as part of the Build Back Better Act, and just yes
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Sierra Club: Environmental Coalition Urges Further Action After Biden Administration Moves to Close Egregious Polluter Loopholes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release:
The EPA has announced the withdrawal of guidance from the Trump Administration that allowed states to create loopholes that permit industrial facilities, such as coal plants and oil refineries, to release unlimited amounts of dangerous air pollution during startup, showdown, and malfunction (SSM) events without facing legal consequences under the Clean Air Act. The announcement reinstates EPA's 2015 policy prohibi
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State Department Hosts Foreign Press Briefing on Clean Energy Innovation for Climate Resilience
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the following foreign press center briefing on Sept. 29, 2021, featuring Amy Myers Jaffe, research professor and managing director of the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School at Tufts University:
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MODERATOR: Good morning and welcome to the Washington Foreign Press Center briefing on harnessing clean energy innovation for climate resilience. My name is Jen McAndrew and I am today's moderator.
The 2021 United Nations Climate
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U.N. Secretary-General Urges Governments to Phase Out Coal, Scale Up Nationally Determined Contributions, Financing for Adaptation
MILAN, Italy, Oct. 1 -- The United Nations issued the following remarks by Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the pre-session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
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There is just one month to go before COP26 - the most important climate conference since Paris. It is essential for all humanity that we fulfil the promise of the Paris Agreement. That means reducing emissions to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius from pre
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U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.4 Million to Build Business Innovation Center to Support Coal Communities in Rosebud County, Montana
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million grant to the Southeastern Montana Development Corporation, Colstrip, Montana, to help build a Business Innovation Center to support economic and workforce development. This EDA grant, to be matched with $600,0
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U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.6 Million to Create Jobs and Clean Energy Products Manufacturing Opportunities in Clarksburg, West Virginia
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 30, 2021:
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Harrison County Commission, Clarksburg, West Virginia, to build and establish a clean energy products manufacturing facility, creating jobs, and spurring private investment in this hard-hit former
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University of Sussex: AI's Emergence Does Not Guarantee a Raw Deal for Workers, Evidence From Past Industrial Revolutions Indicates
BRIGHTON, England, Oct. 1 (TNSRes) -- The University of Sussex issued the following news release:
By Neil Vowles
History indicates productivity gains from the fourth industrial revolution could take decades to be fulfilled and the threat of AI to jobs and wages to be overstated, a new study by a leading economic historian suggests.
The productivity benefits of past industrial revolutions took up to 40 years to be significantly realised, the new study by Professor Nicholas Crafts of the Univer
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Va. Gov. Northam Celebrates New Virginia Department of Energy
RICHMOND, Virginia, Oct. 2 -- Gov. Ralph S. Northam, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Governor Ralph Northam today announced the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy is now the Virginia Department of Energy (Virginia Energy). The name change was passed by the General Assembly and signed by Governor Northam in April 2021. It became official today, October 1st, 2021.
"Virginia is all-in on clean energy," said Governor Northam. "We've passed one of the m
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Western Environmental Law Center: Objections Target President Biden Oil Leasing Plan Amid Climate 'Code Red'
EUGENE, Oregon, Oct. 2 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2021:
Conservation groups filed formal objections today to the Biden administration's plans to offer 734,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing amid what the president himself has called a climate "code red." Oil and gas in the proposed leases contain up to 246 million tons of climate pollution, as much as 62 coal-fired power plants emit in one year.
Today's filing with the U.
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