INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Nov. 1 -- The Indiana Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission issued the following weekly hearing schedule: * * * Monday, November 4, 2024 CAUSE NO.: 42736-RTO60; ALJ: LOYD; TIME: 9:00 A.M.; COMMISSIONER: FREEMAN; ROOM: PNC, Room 222 PETITION OF DUKE ENERGY INDIANA, LLC FOR APPROVAL OF A CHANGE IN ITS MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR MANAGEMENT COST AND REVENUE ADJUSTMENT FACTOR UNDER ITS STANDARD CONTRACT RIDER NO. 68. * * * Monday, November 4, 2024 CAUSE NO.  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on Oct. 30, 2024: * * * Climate Week NYC 2024: Lessons Learned and the Work Ahead By Joseph Majkut and Ray Cai Despite progress, capital deployment for the energy transition and climate action remains uneven across sectors and geographies. Policymakers, capital allocators, and industry stakeholders need to collaborate on amplifying effective policy solutions and business models that will  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- Drexel University issued the following news release: The next step for fully integrated textile-based electronics to make their way from the lab to the wardrobe is figuring out how to power the garment gizmos without unfashionably toting around a solid battery. Researchers from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Accenture Labs in California have taken a new approach to the challenge by building a full textile energy grid that ca  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication on Oct. 24, 2024, from the Nuclear Energy Information Service: * * * President Biden on January 27, 2021 issued Executive Order 14008 titled "Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad." The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) was established to advise and to increase the Federal Government's efforts to address environmental injustice. WHEJAC's efforts would include a   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The House Intelligence Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 118-662) on a the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal 2025 (H.R. 8512), which aims to authorize appropriations for fiscal 2025 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the government, the Community Management Account and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System. The report was advanced by Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, on Sept. 11, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * Purpose   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The House Natural Resources Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 118-669) on the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4596), which aims to reauthorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost-shared funding to implement the endangered and threatened fish recovery programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins. The report was advanced by Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, on Sept. 12, 2024. Here are ex  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 118-587) on the Water Resources Development Act (H.R. 8812), which aims to provide for improvements to the rivers and harbors of the U.S. to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources. The report was advanced by Rep. Sam Graves, R-Missouri, on July 18, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * Purpose of Legislation The purpose of H.R. 8812, the Water Resources Developme  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a notice, published in the Federal Register on Oct. 30, 2024: Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Clean Air Act On October 24, 2024, the Department of Justice lodged a proposed Consent Decree with the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in the lawsuit entitled United States and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. XTO Energy Inc., Civil Action No. 2:24-cv-01467-RJC. The lawsuit s  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Read the Full Report Here Knoxville, Tennessee Today, Sierra Club released a new report and analysis highlighting the urgent need for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to pursue new transmission infrastructure as part of its resource planning to protect consumers and enhance the strength of the grid amid increasingly frequent extreme weather. The report urges TVA to upgrade its "Integrated Reso  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 1 -- BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release: * * * * BNEF's New Energy Outlook: South Korea indicates that decarbonizing electricity supply is key to the country staying on track with the Paris Agreement's goals this decade * More than $2.7 trillion in investment and spending is required by 2050 in a net-zero pathway, 37% more than in an economics-led transition * Solar and wind capacity needs to increase more than 10-fold by 2050 * * * S  more