WASHINGTON, March 12 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Dentons, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Dentons advises the Green Assets Division of MET Group March 12, 2025 Bucharest --Global law firm Dentons has advised the Green Assets Division of MET Group (Swiss based) on the acquisition of a 80 MW photovoltaic project in Romania from Austrian solar power developer and operator Kraftfeld Energy. The project, located in Rascaeti, Dambovita County, was acquired at a ready-to-build stage w  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Competitive Enterprise Institute posted the following news release: * * * EPA Administrator Zeldin announces major deregulatory actions as part of the "Power the Great American Comeback" initiative Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a series of major deregulatory reforms, including a reconsideration of the Obama-era "Endangerment Finding," which argues greenhouse gases constitute a threat to public   more

NEW YORK, March 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Natural Resources Defense Council posted the following news release: * * * EPA's Reckless Move to Halt Clean Energy Grants WASHINGTON, D.C. - Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced that the agency would cancel $20 billion of contracts that are poised to deliver unprecedented clean energy upgrades to homes, businesses, schools, and churches across the nation. In just its first months of operation, these investm  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Rep. Paul A. Gosar, R-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Gosar Reintroduces the Public Lands Renewable Energy Act Washington, D.C. -- Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-09), issued the following statement after reintroducing H.R. 1994, the Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act of 2025 (PLREDA),legislation which increases the production of wind and solar energy on public lands: "The previous administration's unprecedented four-year war on Ameri  more

LONDON, England, March 12 -- Friends of the Earth UK issued the following news release: * * * Government outlines plans for Planning and Infrastructure Bill Funds for communities hosting pylons welcomed - and should be extended to wind and solar farms too Responding to proposals for the forthcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill, due to be published on Tuesday, Mike Childs, head of science, policy and research at Friends of the Earth, said: "The extreme weather seen across the globe is ju  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 13 -- The Salt River Project, a public power utility and electricity provider, issued the following news: * * * Junior Achievement of Arizona Receives a Free Solar System Through the SRP Solar for Nonprofits Program, Reducing Operating Costs by Up to 40% The nonprofit can allocate their savings into programs to advance education in the state The SRP Solar for Nonprofits Program has completed the installation of a 40kW solar system for Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Kelly, Gallego Introduce Bill to Expand Economic Opportunity in La Paz County Bill will enable La Paz County to create hundreds of jobs and power thousands of homes Today, Arizona Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego introduced the La Paz County Solar Energy and Job Creation Act, legislation to allow La Paz County, Arizona to purchase 3,400 acres of certain federal lands to further its economic dev  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 13 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories Charge Robotics, founded by MIT alumni, has created a system that automatically assembles and installs completed sections of large solar farms. By Zach Winn, MIT News As the price of solar panels has plummeted in recent decades, installation costs have taken up a greater share of the technology's overall price tag.   more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe's Beginning NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 11, 2025. Credit: SpaceX NASA's newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on   more

PASADENA, California, March 11 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe's Beginning NASA's newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ingredients of life in our galaxy. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx lifted off at 8:10 p.m. PDT on Marc  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA's Record-Shattering, Theory-Breaking MMS Mission Turns 10 Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA's MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth's protective magnetic field. This process, called magnetic reconnection, occurs when magnetic field lines tangle and explosively realign,  more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, March 12 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Southern Environmental Law Center posted the following news release: * * * North Carolina bill would slash carbon reduction goals and saddle customers with more utility costs CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - A North Carolina Senate bill proposed on Monday would undo a critical carbon pollution reduction deadline and open the door to charge customers for energy projects, even if those projects are ultimately delayed or abandoned, said   more

NEW YORK, March 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Environmental Defense Fund posted the following news release: * * * Restarting Dirty Coal Plants Will Mean More Pollution, Health Harms, Higher Costs for Americans " Restarting old, dirty coal plants will bring more pollution and higher costs for American families. It will mean more smog, more asthma attacks for kids, more heart problems for older Americans, and more toxic mercury that's a danger to the brain development of young children. "  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 11 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': U-M astronomers make galactic discovery Not only is Andromeda XXXV the dimmest and smallest known satellite galaxy in the Andromeda system, it's about 3 million light-years away, making it very hard to spot. The ellipse within the inset shows where this companion galaxy was discovered.credit: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan W.  more

ITHACA, New York, March 13 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Solar solutions: 'MacGyver engineering' extends PV panel life Not all energy solutions are launched with state support or industry partnerships or millions of dollars in funding. Some begin with a quick trip to Lowe's. After taking a class with Tobias Hanrath last spring, materials science and engineering major Aarav Seth '25 began talking with his professor about finding a project to channel his interest in en  more

SYDNEY, Australia, March 12 -- The University of New South Wales issued the following news: * * * UNSW attracts $8.2 million for research commercialisation 23 innovative UNSW projects received funding in the latest AEA Ignite Grant round - more than any other university. Research projects to counter public health misinformation, advance DNA sequencing technology and improve renewable energy production are among the UNSW initiatives greenlit by Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA) Ignite Gr  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on March 12, 2025: * * * Whitehouse Opening Statement at Spotlight Hearing on Trump's Funding Freeze: "It's Gangster Government" Washington, D.C.-- Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), led EPW Democrats in holding a spotlight hearing, titled "Free  more