WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2021: At a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable titled "FedRAMP Reform: Recommendations to Reduce Burden, Enhance Security, and Address Inefficiencies in the Government Cloud Authorization Process," experts agreed with U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (TNSOps) -- The Center for Progressive Reform issued the following news release: Policymakers, philanthropists, and advocates in Louisiana and across the nation must reject the fossil fuel industry's initiatives to capture carbon emissions and store them underground in sedimentary rock and instead pursue solutions that have proven power to curb the climate crisis and protect marginalized communities. So concludes a new policy brief published by the Center for Progressive Ref  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2021: In a proposed consent decree lodged today in U.S. District Court, Louisville Gas & Electric Company (LG&E) has agreed to permanent emission limits for the sulfuric acid mist that it emits from its Mill Creek Station, located in Jefferson County, Kentucky. LG&E also agreed to perform a congressionally authorized diesel-emissions reduction supplemental environmental project aimed at reducing gr  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following Q&A with scientists Maurice Garcia-Sciveres and Ramamoorthy Ramesh on Dec. 1, 2021: Our laptops and smartphones are compact yet powerful because of silicon microelectronics, also known as microchips or chips, the tiny brains behind the digital brawn of almost every modern device. But such modern convenience comes at a cost. By 2030, about 25% of the world's energy - most of which is  more

LUND, Sweden, Dec. 2 (TNSJou) -- Lund University issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2021: Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within the Earth observation programme Copernicus, when satellites will be sent into space in the coming years. At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world agreed on a new document that for the f  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The December 2021 edition of the SSAE Newsletter provides updates about recent research initiatives undertaken within NETL's Strategic Systems Analysis and Engineering (SSAE) directorate. Click here (https://netl.doe.gov/sites/default/files/publication/SSAE%20December%20Newsletter_v0_20211123.pdf) to access this latest edition and learn about activities that SSAE  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2021: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced its intent to fund projects through its University Training and Research Program, which is composed of the University Coal Research (UCR) program and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions (HBCU-OMI) program. The programs serve  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, inventions from Sandia National Laboratories captured seven R&D 100 Awards (one in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) this year, as well as two special awards for green technology and corporate responsibility. Independent panels of judges selected projects   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following opening statement at a Nov. 18, 2021, confirmation hearing: * * * I've read a variety of Prof. Omarova's writings and watched videos of her speaking. I have no doubt that she's an intelligent, knowledgeable, and experienced law professor. My concern with Prof. Omarova is her long history of promoting ideas that she herself describes as "radical  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on Nov. 16, 2021, entitled "Domestic and International Energy Price Trends": * * * The topic of this hearing is very timely with the rising energy prices that we're seeing right now across the country and around the globe. Prices are rapidly rising across gasoline, diesel, heating oil, natural gas, electricity and even coal  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Stephen Nalley, acting administrator of the Energy Information Administration, involving a hearing on Nov. 16, 2021, entitled "Domestic and International Energy Price Trends": * * * I appreciate the opportunity to testify about the U.S. Energy Information Administration's assessment of energy prices and how they reflect the current world and domestic energy situation. When I last spoke to  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Tim Gould, chief energy economist of the International Energy Agency, involving a hearing on Nov. 16, 2021, entitled "Domestic and International Energy Price Trends": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and to present latest data and analysis from the International Energy Agency (IEA) on energy price trends. Senator Manchin, it is an honor to be here, and at the  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by Robert Bryce, host of the Power Hungry podcast, involving a hearing on Nov. 16, 2021, entitled "Domestic and International Energy Price Trends". Bryce is also an author, journalist and film producer. * * * With all due respect, legislators and policymakers in Washington need a big dose of energy realism and an even bigger dose of energy humanism. The causes and implications of soaring gl  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 -- The United Nations issued the following news release: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from Rome on 31 October. On Monday, 1 November, the Secretary General met with the head of the delegation of Kuwait to the twenty sixth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26), Prime Minister Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah. He discussed Kuwait's Nationally Determined Contribution and welc  more