SACRAMENTO, California, March 2 (TNSres) -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: Today, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California has surpassed 100,000 public and shared private electric vehicle chargers installed statewide, just weeks after unprecedented funding was approved to build a bigger, better network of charging and refueling infrastructure for zero-emission cars, trucks and buses - the most extensive network in the nation. This is more PR

DES MOINES, Iowa, March 2 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: Today, Gov. Reynolds announced appointments to Iowa's boards and commissions. * * * The following appointments are subject to Senate confirmation: Accountancy Examining Board Brian Powers, Dubuque Bradley Hauge, Linn * * * Commission on the Status of African American Affairs Whitney Smith McIntosh, Polk Rachel Cross, Dallas * * * Agricultural Development Board Jayme Ungs, Gree more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 2 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved a more than $92 million increase in rates for electric customers of Consumers Energy Co., including significant emphasis on investments needed to improve reliability (Case No. U-21389). The $92,009,000 increase is 57.4% lower than the $216 million rate increase the utility sought in its initial application. Consumers late more PR

LANSING, Michigan, March 2 -- The Michigan Public Service Commission issued the following news release: * * * Disallows More Than $2.7M in Costs * * * The MPSC approved DTE Electric Co.'s application for approval of the reconciliation of its power supply costs recovery (PSCR) expenses and revenues for 2021 (Case No. U-20827), rejecting $2.7 million in costs the company sought to recover from outages at generating facilities. The Commission set DTE Electric's PSCR reconciliation beginning ba more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 1 -- The Minnesota House Democratic-Farmer-Labor Caucus issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Today, the Minnesota House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee met jointly with the House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee to receive a presentation on the significant increase of firearm deaths among children. The Public Safety committee also heard and passed two gun violence prevention bills. HF 4300, authored by Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn more PR

SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 2 (TNSres) -- The New Mexico Department of Environment issued the following news release: The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) released updates for the month of February 2024 on the Enforcement Watch. The Enforcement Watch is a listing of all active and resolved enforcement cases. Active cases involve an alleged violation of a regulation, rule, permit, license, etc. Resolved cases are those that were adjudicated in court of law or administratively resolved.  more PR

ALBANY, New York, March 2 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Feb. 29, 2024: Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the State has conditionally awarded two offshore wind projects from its fourth offshore wind solicitation - a planned 810-megawatt project, Empire Wind 1, (developed by Equinor) and Sunrise Wind, a planned 924-megawatt project (developed by Orsted and Eversource). The competitively selected projects will create more than 800 near-term family-susta more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 2 -- The Pennsylvania House Republicans issued the following news release: State Rep. Barb Gleim (R-Cumberland), a lawmaker and farmer, has been at the forefront of the issues surrounding food processing residual (FPR) waste for months, with many constituents in her district complaining about the odor and lack of regulations regarding FPR. FPR is waste left over from food manufacturing, which can include vegetable peelings, raw meat scraps and liquid, like clean more PR