By David Beasley | Aug 17, 2022
The Department of Agriculture's new Emergency Relief Program (ERP) has processed more than 255,000 applications and paid more than $6.1 billion to commodity and specialty crop growers to offset qualifying losses from eligible natural disasters in 2020 and 2021, according to an Aug. 4 news release.
By David Beasley | Aug 17, 2022
Two communities in New Mexico, Doña Ana County and Santo Domingo Pueblo, are participating in a federal pilot program to provide wastewater sanitation to underserved communities.
By David Beasley | Aug 15, 2022
A discount retailer agreed to pay a $751,055 federal fine for marketing and selling unregistered disinfectants in historically underserved and disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout Arizona, California and Nevada.
By David Beasley | Aug 13, 2022
The Narragansett Bay Commission in Providence, R.I., has been approved for a $55 million loan from the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.
By David Beasley | Aug 13, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent trip to Taiwan sparked a series of military exercises from China, but Washington officials have indicated the ballistic missile test launches do not necessarily mean China will try to forcibly takeover Taiwan in the near future.
By David Beasley | Aug 12, 2022
Combating human trafficking is a top priority for the Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Investigations plays an integral role in working with law enforcement partners around the globe to deter, disrupt and dismantle criminal networks engaged in this heinous crime.
By David Beasley | Aug 12, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will receive $132 million from President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law over the next five years to help improve the nation's major estuaries.
By David Beasley | Aug 12, 2022
A California man has been sentenced to six months in home confinement for threatening a U.S. congressman, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Aug 11, 2022
A Philadelphia woman, Lore Elisabeth Blumenthal, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in connection with arson in the burning of two police cars during protests in 2020.
By David Beasley | Aug 10, 2022
The United States and Canada have made great progress over the last 50 years in protecting the Great Lakes and supporting a thriving regional economy.
By David Beasley | Aug 10, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy has granted a $102.1 million loan to Syrah Technologies, LLC, for the expansion of its Syrah Vidalia facility, which produces graphite-based, active anode material used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Aug 10, 2022
Former White House adviser Seth Andrew was sentenced to a year in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a charter school network that he founded of more than $218,000, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Aug 9, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded up to $165 million to expand research on U.S. geothermal energy production, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Aug 9, 2022
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas has given permission to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to carry out the Yuma Morelos Dam Project, which would close four gaps in an unfinished border barrier project at the Morelos Dam, according to a news release.
By David Beasley | Aug 8, 2022
A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico has indicted four people on cocaine charges, the U.S. Justice Department said in a recent press release.
By David Beasley | Aug 8, 2022
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm praised Congressional passage of CHIPS and Science Act.
By David Beasley | Aug 8, 2022
The Department of Agriculture has designated August as "Tree Check Month" for the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB).
By David Beasley | Aug 7, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is increasing funding for school lunches.
By David Beasley | Aug 7, 2022
"A full cleanup of the contamination at the Cosden Chemical Coatings Corporation Superfund site is critical to ensuring environmental and public health in Beverly, New Jersey," Lisa F. Garcia, EPA regional administrator, said.
By David Beasley | Aug 7, 2022
Liberty Shared, an international non-governmental organization, will partner with the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Countering Human Trafficking to improve the DHS's capacity to look into forced labor in the supply chain, according to a recent news release.
