WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48089) on July 31, 2026, entitled "Columbia River System Operations and the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams." The report is written by natural resources policy specialists Anna E. Normand, and Pervaze A. Sheikh, and research planning coordinator Erin H. Ward. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Congress has repeatedly debated how to operate and allocate resources from federal water resour  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R49057) on July 31, 2026, entitled "Data Centers and Water: Frequently Asked Questions." The report is written by section research manager, Peter Folger, environmental policy specialists Elena H. Humphreys and Laura Gatz, energy policy specialist Corrie E. Clark, natural resources policy specialists Nicole T. Carter, Anna E. Normand and Charles V. Stern: * * * SUMMARY The expanding use of art  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 7 [Category: Energy] -- 350.org, an organization that works to end the age of fossil fuels and build a community-led renewable energy, posted the following news release: * * * Japan's record heatwave has a culprit: fossil fuels * A recent study by the Weather Attribution Center Japan shows that record high temperatures in the country from mid to late July would've been impossible without climate change. This must serve as a wake-up call for the Takaichi administra  more

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Aug. 6 -- Western Kentucky University posted the following news: * * * Morton Electric welcomes 2 interns to its Automation Lab at the WKU Innovation Campus * Morton Electric has hired two Western Kentucky University Electrical Engineering students, Aric Springob and Ha'ani Whitlock, as engineering interns supporting the company's growing Automation Lab at the WKU Innovation Campus on Nashville Road. Springob and Whitlock are both juniors in WKU's Electrical Engine  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Guidehouse prepared Report No. PNNL-33452, 'Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Research Opportunities Report: Industrializing Construction to Decarbonize Buildings', for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office. Its authors are Cheryn Metzger, Rebecca Ciraulo, Tyler Pilet, Ian Blanding, Valerie Nubbe, April Weintraub, Sarrin Chethik, Prad Tripathy, Mic  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 8 -- The Texas A&M University College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Rethinking how batteries survive extreme cold A Texas A&M materials science and engineering doctoral candidate is developing next-generation batteries for aerospace applications and teaching the next generation of scientists how to ask better questions along the way. By Leon Contreras, Contributor Jaybelle Pranada grew up in the Philippines, asking, "Why?" Why does nature wor  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (TNSLrpt) -- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued Report No. PNNL-33799, 'Initial Testing of Wave Energy Powered UV-C LED Anti-Biofouling System', by Milan Minsky, Linnea E. Weicht, and Nichole K. Sather. The study, prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830, examined whether a wave-energy-powered ultraviolet light system could limit biological growth on equipment used by buoy-mounted ocean sensors. Biofouling can impair data from sens  more