WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: By C. Todd Lopez, DOD News The Defense Department has in recent months advanced its goal of developing domestic supply chains to ensure continued access to the rare earth materials needed to manufacture the permanent magnets used in important U.S. military weapons systems. "DOD's recently published National Defense Industrial Strategy will guide the creation of a modernized defense industrial ecosystem," said La  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Jon Tester, D-Montana, issued the following news release: Following a years-long effort from U.S. Senator Jon Tester, the United States and Canada today announced a Joint Reference to the International Joint Commission (IJC) instructing an Independent Governing Body to investigate pollution in the Kootenai Watershed. The pollution is caused by mining in Canada. Tester has been Montana's most vocal advocate for a fix to the problem, and first called on the State Dep  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued the following news on March 11, 2024: The Biden-Harris administration today released the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2025. The budget makes critical, targeted investments in the American people that will promote greater prosperity and economic growth for decades to come, including nearly $305 million for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to ensu  more

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 12 -- The International Institute for Sustainable Development issued the following news release: The 2022 global energy crisis, together with India's growing energy demand, has led the country to adopt a hybrid approach, expanding all forms of supply in 2023. This approach has pushed India's total energy subsidies to a 9-year high of INR 3.2 lakh crore (USD 39.3 billion) for the fiscal year ending 2023 (FY 2023), new research suggests. In recent years, India has posit  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, March 12 -- Land Degradation and Development, a peer-reviewed journal that says it promotes the rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 15, 2024, edition (Vol. 35, Issue 3): EDITORIAL: * Land use changes, degradation, and impact on ecosystem services in Asia and Southeast Asia RESEARCH ARTICLES: * Possibility of spatial estimation of soil erosion using Revised Universal Soil Loss Equatio  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, March 12 -- Land Degradation and Development, a peer-reviewed journal that says it promotes the rehabilitation of degradation in terrestrial environments, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 28, 2024, edition (Vol. 35, Issue 4): REVIEW ARTICLES * Bioremediation of mercury contaminated soil and water: A review * Ants in restoration ecology: Why, what's and the way forward RESEARCH ARTICLES * The potential risk of soil salinization on vegetatio  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * An online model enables users to calculate the least-cost strategy for a specific regional grid under various assumptions; outcomes vary widely from region to region. * * * By Nancy W. Stauffer, MIT Energy Initiative To help curb climate change, the United States is working to reduce carbon emissions from all sectors of the energy economy. Much of the current effort in  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on March 11, 2024: * * * The President's Budget Creates Good-Paying Clean Jobs, Cuts Energy Costs, and Delivers on the President's Ambitious Climate Agenda Since taking office, President Biden has delivered on the most ambitious climate, conservation, and environmental justice agenda in history--taking bold action to reduce climate pollution across every sector of the economy, protecting more than 26 million acr  more