WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The American Energy Alliance issued the following news release: Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will be participating in a Town Hall Forum this evening hosted by CNN in Pennsylvania, the second largest natural gas producer in the country. In advance of this event, the American Energy Alliance has prepared ten questions for Anderson Cooper to ask Vice President Harris: 1. Your environmental allies have proudly boasted about your history of  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Oct. 23 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies that make Minnesota a freer, more prosperous and better-governed state, issued the following commentary on Oct. 21, 2024: * * * Xcel to Add 3.2 GW of Wind and 400 MW of Solar by 2030 Written by Sarah Montalbano Xcel may have tried to do the right thing by planning to construct a few new natural gas plants while it adds grid-destabilizing  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Oct. 23 -- Clean Wisconsin issued the following news release: People from across Wisconsin are joining environmental and health advocates to call on Microsoft to power its new AI data center with local clean energy. Right now, We Energies is planning to meet data center demand by spending billions on new gas power plants and pipelines, a move that will push Wisconsin's climate goals out of reach, locking the state into 30 more years of fossil fuels at a time when we must rap  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2024: * * * Settlements advance EPA's National Enforcement Priority of protecting communities from coal ash contamination * * * Today, Oct. 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced agreements with four companies to settle violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's regulations related to coal ash surface impoundments and landfills. The settlements, finalized   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Interior Inspector General issued the following evaluation report (No. 2023-INF-014) on Sept. 11, 2024, entitled "The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Should Improve Efforts for Expending Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funds." Here are excerpts: * * * Memorandum To: Sharon Buccino, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement From: Mark Lee Greenblatt, Inspector General Subject: Final Evaluation Repo  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Charleston, WV Today, Senator Joe Manchin III (I-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, announced nearly $430 million to accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing in coal communities in West Virginia and across the country. This award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains is a result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure La  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2024: Today, Congresswoman Summer Lee (D-PA) sent a letter to Glenda Hudson Owens, Acting Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) at the U.S. Department of the Interior, requesting updates on the implementation of critical recommendations to improve the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) program. The AMLER program is designed to address env  more