WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is leading the charge in ensuring that all Americans benefit from a resilient, reliable, secure, and affordable energy system that also advances equity and justice for all. As DOE celebrates Justice Week 2023, this year's theme, Equity Empowered, focuses on advancing equity and environmental justice in the clean energy transition a  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Lujan, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Improve AI Testing and Evaluation Systems, Safeguard Americans Against Risks Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the Testing and Evaluation Systems for Trusted Artificial Intelligence (TEST) AI Act to improve the federa  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Nov. 1 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release on Oct. 31, 2023: The Outdoor Recreation Division (ORD) held the second annual Adventure Pitch, produced in partnership with CNM Ingenuity's Startups and Small Business team, at the Outdoor Economics Conference last Wednesday in Santa Fe. The startup pitch event is the third held by ORD, a division of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), leaving a legacy of outdoo  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Sandia National Laboratories researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint award with Los Alamos National Laboratory and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical competition that includes researchers from universities, corporations and government labs. "These achievements further Sandia's mission and demonstrate the impact that innova  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Nov. 1 -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: South Dakota Mines has been elected to the Universities Research Association (URA). Per the organization's website, their mission is to "establish and operate - in the national interest - unique laboratories and facilities for research, development and education in the physical and biological sciences to expand the frontiers of knowledge, foster innovation and promote the educa  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: * * * UVM researchers and students to study the impacts of Vermont's conditions on solar power generation, with applications for other cold climates * * * The new UVM Solar Research and Training Facility at McNeil Generating Station was unveiled today, energizing the study of the performance and durability of solar panels under often-challenging Vermont conditions: freezing temperatures, heat and hu  more