WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Wilderness Society issued the following news release: * * * Burgum secretarial orders target monuments, give drilling favored status on public lands Undermining balanced public lands approach, orders call for more oil and gas leasing, review of Biden conservation rules WASHINGTON D.C. (Feb. 4, 2025) -- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a series of secretarial orders that position drilling and mining interests as the favored users of America's public lands and th  more

BOONE, North Carolina, Feb. 4 [Category: Sociological] -- Appalachian Voices posted the following news release: * * * Community invited to solar power ribbon-cutting and community event at Four Seasons YMCA in Tazewell February 4, 2025 February 20 event is free and open to the public and includes refreshments, tours of solar array, and discussion of how to spread solar power around the area TAZEWELL, Va. -- The Solar Workgroup of Southwest Virginia and Secure Solar Futures are hosting a r  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Jefferson Van Drew, R-New Jersey, issued the following news release: * * * Congressman Van Drew: Regional Agreement to Lower Energy Costs is a Small but Necessary Step in the Right Direction Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Van Drew stated that the agreement reached between Pennsylvania and PJM Interconnection--a regional transmission organization that oversees electricity movement across 13 states, including New Jersey--is a small but necessary step toward stopp  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: * * * Congresswoman Lee Statement on Trump Administration Cutting Off Nevada Solar Investments WASHINGTON -- Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) released the following statement on the Trump Administration's decision to cut off the distribution of more than $218 million in local and regional solar energy investments in Nevada, via the Solar For All program: "It's illegal for Trump to freeze federal investm  more

LONDON, England, Feb. 5 -- Energy and Environmental Science, a peer-reviewed journal linking all aspects of the chemical, physical and biotechnological sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science from the Royal Society of Chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 7, 2025, edition (Vol. 18, Issue 3). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Review Article * Supercapatteries: unlocking the potential  more

LONDON, England, Feb. 5 -- Energy and Environmental Science, a peer-reviewed journal linking all aspects of the chemical, physical and biotechnological sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science from the Royal Society of Chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 21, 2025, edition (Vol. 18, Issue 2). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Review Article * Suppressing non-radiative recombination   more

LONDON, England, Feb. 5 -- Energy Science and Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal from the Society of Chemical Industry that says it features energy and supply and use, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 13, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * REVIEW * Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Slippage Effect and Injection Capacity With Hydrophobic Nanoparticles Adsorption * Empowering Rural Farming: Agrovoltaic Applications for Susta  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, Feb. 5 -- The Universities Space Research Association issued the following news release: * * * Grand Canyons of the Moon Washington, D.C., and Houston, TX--February 4, 2025. In a significant discovery, a team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), an institute of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), found that two immense canyons hidden in the lunar far side are similar in width and depth to the Earth's Grand Canyon. The findings were publ  more

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 5 -- Holland and Hart, a law firm, issued the following news: Holland & Hart served as lead transactional counsel for Mountain Parks Electric, Inc. (MPE), a Colorado-based not-for-profit, member-owned electric utility cooperative, in connection with its withdrawal from Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State), effective Feb. 1, 2025. The transaction included the negotiation of a Power Sales Agreement with Guzman Energy, a Purchase and Sale Agreeme  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Feb. 4 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * International Team Readies the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe for Launch The final instrument set to fly on NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) -- currently coming together at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland -- has been integrated onto the spacecraft. The IMAP mission will ob  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following news on Feb. 4, 2025: * * * Recalibrating Connectivity to Compete Against China Part 4: China manipulates flows of information, goods, and critical materials. The West must respond. By Dr. Tim Sweijs and Ron Stoop During the 21st century, national security and prosperity depend on a society's ability to secure and control essential connectivity flows. Such flows are both physical and digital. They ensure acce  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * U.S. Domestic Solar Production Reaches Historic Milestone Washington, D.C. \- The United States has surpassed 50 GW in domestic solar energy manufacturing capacity for the first time in history, enough to power approximately 37.5 million homes. This milestone marks an impressive progress--bolstered by clean energy investments in the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law--  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The Solar Energy Industries Association issued the following news release: * * * United States Surpasses 50 GW of Solar Module Manufacturing Capacity Historic milestone marks progress towards SEIA's goal to achieve 50 GW of domestic manufacturing across the solar supply chain by 2030 WASHINGTON D.C. -- The United States has reached a historic manufacturing milestone, surpassing 50 gigawatts (GW) of domestic solar module production capacity. At full capacity, these facto  more

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 5 -- The Technical University of Munich issued the following news: * * * Why do plants transport energy so efficiently and quickly? Quantum mechanics helps with photosynthesis Photosynthesis - mainly carried out by plants - is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further. This happens practically loss-free and extremely quickly. A new study by the Chair of Dynamic Spectros  more