COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 12 [Category: BizEnergy] -- American Electric Power Corp. posted the following news release: * * * AEP Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2025 Results, Reaffirms Long-Term Growth Outlook * * Full-year GAAP earnings of $6.70 per share and operating earnings of $5.97 per share * 56 GW of incremental load by 2030, up from 28 GW in October, all backed by signed agreements * Opportunities identified for $5 billion to $8 billion of incremental investment beyond AEP's  more PR

FAIRFAX, Virginia, Feb. 13 -- Americans for Limited Government issued the following statement on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * ALG Praises President Trump And EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin For Ending Carbon Endangerment Finding Error Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin for ending the 2009 carbon endangerment finding: "The carbon endangerm more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Capito Applauds Trump EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, commended the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) repeal of greenhouse gas vehicle standards which resulted in inefficient and burdensome mandates that increased costs for more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * Capito Applauds Trump EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, commended the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) repeal of greenhouse gas vehicle standards which resulted in  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * EPA Mid-Atlantic Region Highlights Funding to Accelerate Chesapeake Bay Restoration EPA expands support for Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund Small Watershed Grant and Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grant programs * PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced more than $44 million in grant awards through its Chesapeake Bay Program Office to support wat more PR

ALBANY, New York, Feb. 12 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release: * * * Governor Hochul Announces Completion of Safety Enhancement Project Along Onondaga Lake Parkway in Onondaga County * Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of safety enhancements along Onondaga Lake Parkway in the Village of Liverpool and Town of Salina, Onondaga County. The enhancements are designed to prevent over-height vehicles from striking the low-clearance railroad bridge  more PR

AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 13 -- JCP&L, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy, issued the following news release: * * * JCP&L Customers Experiencing Fewer Outages as $95 Million Reliability Project Reaches Midpoint Upgrades in Hunterdon, Ocean and Warren Counties move the project into home stretch * HOLMDEL, N.J. -- Thousands of Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) customers saw fewer power outages last year as the company reached the halfway point of its $95 million New Jersey Reliability Improvement Project more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History * Trump Admin Eliminates Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, off-cycle credits, start-stop feature WASHINGTON - Alongside President Trump in the White House's Roosevelt Room, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Summer Lee Demands Answers from ICE on Detention of Brentwood Asylum Seeker Maklim Gomez Escalante * WASHINGTON, D.C. - FEBRUARY 12, 2026 - Congresswoman Summer L. Lee (PA-12) sent a formal congressional inquiry to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding answers regarding the detention of Maklim Gomez Escalante, an asylum seeker and constituent living in Brentwood, Pennsylva more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 13 -- Save the Sound issued the following news release: * * * Save the Sound Profoundly Concerned over EPA's Recission of Endangerment Finding Decision will exacerbate climate-related costs, consequences for environmental and public health * Larchmont, NY -- Save the Sound is profoundly disappointed in the Environmental Protection Agency's decision today to rescind the federal Endangerment Finding, which since 2009 has been the lynchpin in the federal government more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Senate Dems probe DOE using carbon capture funds to prop up coal * Top Senate Democrats are investigating the Department of Energy's plan to prop up aging coal plants with millions of dollars Congress originally set aside to advance carbon capture technologies and improve energy resiliency and environmental protection in rural areas. Senate Appropriations ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash. more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- Sen. Jim Justice, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: * * * Senator Justice Joins President Trump at White House to Tout Renewed Use of Coal Plants to Power Military Installations Today, Senator Jim Justice released a statement following his visit to the White House, where President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the Department of War to enter power purchase contracts with over three dozen coal power plants: "This is good policy that simply ma more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Trump Gives Handout to Three West Virginia Coal Plants, Worsening Local Air Quality and Raising Bills * CHARLESTON, W.Va. - On the heels of receiving an inaugural "Undisputed Champion of Coal" award from an industry-backed pro-coal group, President Trump has announced $175 million in taxpayer-funded handouts to seven coal plants, including Appalachian Power's Amos and Mountaineer plants an more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Feb. 13 -- The West Virginia Attorney General John B. McCuskey issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2026: * * * Attorney General McCuskey praises rollback of costly EPA over-regulation Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, alongside President Trump, announced the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. In this final rule, EPA is eliminating both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding an more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Feb. 12 -- West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2026: * * * Secretary of State Warner encourages legislators to support the creation of the WV Office of Entrepreneurship Legislation was introduced this week in both the WV State Senate (SB 878) and House of Delegates (HB 5200) to create the WV Office of Entrepreneurship under the leadership of the Secretary of State. After more than seven years of discussion and c more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Feb. 12 -- West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2026: * * * WV Secretary of State Kris Warner says he will not release protected personal voter information to U.S. Department of Justice WV Secretary of State Kris Warner announced today that the WV Secretary of State's Office will not volunteer the release of personally identifying information (PII) of every registered West Virginian to the U.S. Department of Justi more PR