WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Indianapolis, IN: On the heels of hearings for a nearly $500 million rate increase and being awarded 0 out of 100 points in the Sierra Club's latest Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges report, Duke Indiana has filed its preferred energy plan with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, which is more expensive and more polluting than other options according to the utility's own analysis. Duk  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: Raleigh, NC: In a surprise move late last Friday, months ahead of schedule, the North Carolina Utility Commission (NCUC) approved Duke's energy plan that abandons the state's requirement to reduce carbon emissions by 70 percent by 2030. This decision means that not only will Duke fail to comply with a state law passed just three years ago, but the utility is following a plan that is not compliant   more

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The North Carolina Utilities Commission late Friday issued a Carbon Plan that approves many of monopoly utility Duke Energy's proposals and fails to meet the carbon pollution reduction requirements mandated by state law. The Southern Environmental Law Center intervened in the Carbon Plan proceeding on behalf of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, the Si  more

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, Nov. 2 -- President Biden issued the following remarks at the Carpenters Local 445's Get Out the Vote event: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Oh. (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) It's great to be home. (Applause.) I know all of you folks in this area know when we say "it's good to be home," a lot of us mean it because we have family and our roots are here. And I t- -- my -- I told my granddaughter my deceased son, Beau, who was a decorated Army veteran --  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 5 -- Processes, a peer-reviewed open access journal on processes in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials and systems engineering research fields, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 10): * Article - A Comparative Study of Drying Technologies for Apple and Ginger Pomace: Kinetic Modeling and Antioxidant Properties * Article - A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Defect Recognition Method for Power Insula  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 5 -- Processes, a peer-reviewed open access journal on processes in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials and systems engineering research fields, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2024 edition (Vol. 12, Issue 9): * Article - A Full-Stage Productivity Equation for Constant-Volume Gas Reservoirs and Its Application * Article - A High-Performance Microwave Heating Device Based on a Coaxial Structure * Article - A Hybrid Data-Driv  more

BLUEFIELD, West Virginia, Nov. 5 -- Gov. Jim Justice, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Nov. 4, 2024: Gov. Jim Justice today announced the award of a $58 million contract for the construction of a 2.5-mile stretch of the King Coal Highway, connecting Littlesburg to the Mercer County Airport. The King Coal Highway is a four-lane highway approximately 95 miles long running through McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Wyoming, and Wayne counties, along or near currently existing US 52 fro  more

BLUEFIELD, West Virginia, Nov. 5 -- Gov. Jim Justice, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release on Nov. 4, 2024: Gov. Jim Justice today announced the contract award for Roaring Run Bridge, completing the Kerens to Parsons section of Corridor H. Triton Construction Inc. has been awarded the over $77 million project. Gov. Justice made the announcement during an event along the King Coal Highway, where he announced another contract award. "Getting the Roaring Run Bridge project off th  more