WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are responding to the increasingly uncertain climate. The warmer and more unpredictable weather has been a source of instability on U.S. farms. ARS agroecologists turned to history for a solution to this challenge, which inspired them to better understand the benefits of crop rotation  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Aug. 28, 2024: * * * Annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) Finds Historic High Unionization in Clean Energy Sector, Growth in Clean Energy Jobs in Every State * * * Spurred by the Biden-Harris Administration's record investments in climate, clean energy, and manufacturing, clean energy employment increased by 142,000 jobs in 2023, accounting for more than half of new energy sector jobs and g  more

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: * * * * Transformational Brownfield Plan to enhance Grand Rapids riverfront with a $700 million investment to build hundreds of new housing units, greenspace, stadium, and amphitheater * Refrigeration company Northland Corporation creating up to 200 jobs, retaining 116 with expansion in Greenville * Brownfield site in Northville to be redeveloped into horse track and community  more

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 29 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: Today, Hope Snyder, 43, of Kincheloe, was sentenced before Judge Susan Sniegowski in the 51st Circuit Court in Mason County to 35 to 60 years' incarceration for murder of Jeffery Grant and the killing of his two dogs by arson, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. Synder pled no contest to Second Degree Murder, First Degree Arson, and two counts of Animals - Killing  more

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 29 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission announced the following electric application (Case No. U-21784) on Aug. 28, 2024: * * * In the matter of the application of CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY for authority to reconcile certain electric utility residual balances. APPLICATION Consumers Energy Company ("Consumers Energy" or the "Company") respectfully requests that the Michigan Public Service Commission ("MPSC" or the "Commission") authorize Consumers Energy to reconci  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten today announced that Gull Lake Country Club of Richland, Michigan, has agreed to pay $440,312.50 to resolve allegations in a civil case that it falsely obtained a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan in 2020 when it was an ineligible nonprofit organization. "The Paycheck Prote  more

ERIE, Pennsylvania, Aug. 29 -- The White House issued the following remarks on Aug. 28, 2024, by National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi on the Biden-Harris administration's investments driving the expansion of American energy jobs: * * * As Prepared for Delivery Thank you, Mayor Schember, for your leadership and for your partnership. As an Erie County native, an Edinboro kid, I am especially grateful to be here - to be back home. Today, we stand together to lift up and reflect on the progress we  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The White House issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: The President is announcing his intent to nominate three individuals to federal district courts--all of whom are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution. These choices also continue to fulfill the President's promise to ensure that the nation's courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country--both in terms of personal and pr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Results could aid understanding of how black holes produce vast intergalactic jets * * * Whether between galaxies or within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks, the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma regularly encounters powerful magnetic fields, changing shape and sloshing in space. Now, a new measurement technique using p  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In June 2024, quits rates (the number of quits during the entire month as a percentage of total employment) were above 3.0 percent in 3 states: Montana (3.2 percent) and South Carolina and Wyoming (3.1 percent each). There were 73,000 quits in South Carolina, 17,000 quits in Montana, and 9,000 quits in Wyoming. Nationally, there were 3,282,000 quit  more