LONDON, England, June 11 (TNSres) -- Christian Aid issued the following news release: * * * * Extreme weather has caused over $41 billion damage in just six months since the last climate COP, according to a new report by Christian Aid. * Just four extreme weather events in this time - all scientifically shown to have been made more likely and/or more intense by climate change - killed over 2,500 people. * These fossil-fueled floods and heat waves caused misery for millions of people, many of  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, met with Congresswoman Lori Trahan, the town leaders of Clinton, Lawrence and Lowell, other stakeholders, to celebrate their awards from the pot of $34,646,400 in grant awards from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in Massachusetts while advancing environme  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The International Center for Journalists issued the following news release: Coal that was originally designated as low-quality appears to have been sold to the state power company in India as high-quality coal for triple the cost, according to an investigation from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) led by Anand Mangnale, winner of the ICFJ Hans Staiger Investigative Reporting Award. "The alleged overpricing would not only burden ordinary Indian  more

LONDON, England, June 11 -- Nature Climate Change, a journal that says it features nature, underlying causes or impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 14, Issue 6): Research Highlights: * Slimmed success for heated sperm * The effects on children * Increasing double storms * Nuclear watchdog tracks warming * Geoscientists asked to vote on urgent global challenges. News & View  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: Last week, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly visited the City of St. Johns in Apache County to meet with mayors from Northeastern Arizona and talk about issues facing the region and federal support he has brought to their communities, including a $1.9 million broadband investment he secured for the city. Kelly talks to City of St. Johns Town Manager Paul Ramsey https://www.kelly.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The Senate Budget Committee released the following written testimony by Tim Gallaudet, ex-assistant secretary of Commerce for oceans and atmosphere, from a hearing dated May 15, 2024, entitled "Budgeting for the Storm: Climate Change and the Costs to National Security": * * * Chairman Whitehouse, Ranking Member Grassley, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today regarding climate change and the costs to national security. Cli  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The Senate Budget Committee released the following written testimony by Roger Pielke Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, from a hearing dated May 22, 2024, entitled "Droughts, Dollars, and Decisions: Water Scarcity in a Changing Climate": * * * Summary: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), human-caused climate change influences the global hydrological cycle in the context of significant natural climate variability. Influe  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 10 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Jill Higham -- a Wyoming native, University of Wyoming alumna and accomplished fundraiser and higher education leader -- has been hired as the new senior vice president for development at the UW Foundation after a national search. She began her new position June 5. "I feel fortunate to be returning home to Wyoming," Higham says. "In so many ways, UW feels part of my DNA. It's going to be an honor partneri  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), along with a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval to formally challenge the Biden Administration's regulations intended to shut down American power plants.The CRA comes after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final rules that impose unrealistic emiss  more