By David Beasley | Aug 7, 2022
The U.S. departments of Energy and Health and Human Services have launched a program to lower electricity bills and make solar energy more accessible.
By David Beasley | Aug 6, 2022
Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan this week and vowed to "strengthen Taiwan's self-defense capability."
By David Beasley | Aug 5, 2022
Kristian "Kris" Hart, a current member of the Amite, La., City Council; and Jerry Trabona, former police chief of Amite City, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pay and offering to pay voters in Tangipahoa Parish to vote in the 2016 open primary and 2016 open general elections.
By David Beasley | Aug 5, 2022
The Department of the Interior recently announced that the Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force concluded its review of more than 660 geographic features with the name sq___, a term that has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.
By David Beasley | Aug 4, 2022
The Cyber Incident Reporting Council (CIRC), a new group made up of federal agencies with a congressional mandate to coordinate, deconflict, and harmonize current and future federal cyber incident reporting requirements, met for the first time on July 22.
By David Beasley | Aug 3, 2022
After receiving no response from the Biden administration on concerns over a controversial U.S. State Department grant program “committed to the practice and spread of atheism and humanism, a group of congressmen led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) sent a follow up letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
By David Beasley | Aug 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is encouraging urban farmers to attend a webinar sponsored by the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production.
By David Beasley | Aug 1, 2022
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is traveling to Taiwan as a part of her Asia trip, and she is expected to spend one night there.
By David Beasley | Aug 1, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management and cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Nuclear Site (SRNS) are using an an "innovative passive energy process" that raises the pH levels of groundwater at a former coal-fired power plant using crushed marble, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Jul 30, 2022
More than a dozen teenagers from the Appalachian region attended an environmental cleanup summer camp in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, sponsored by the Office of Environmental Management.
By David Beasley | Jul 29, 2022
Testifying before a congressional subcommittee July 13, two federal energy officials stressed the importance of technology and involvement of national laboratories in hazardous waste cleanup efforts in communities that supported United States defense efforts for decades, according to a news release.
By David Beasley | Jul 29, 2022
U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore has changed agency policies to make it easier to cooperate with potential partners, according to a news release.
By David Beasley | Jul 28, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm is encouraging the international energy community to tackle the transition to clean energy and issued an invitation to join the Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF) in Pittsburgh on Sept. 21-23.
By David Beasley | Jul 28, 2022
The U.S. Agriculture Department has awarded $70 million in grants to encourage schools to serve wholesome, locally grown foods, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Jul 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced plans to address a four-million acre backlog in reforestation on national forests and to plant more than one billion trees over the following ten years, according to a news release.
By David Beasley | Jul 26, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $5.7 million in “quick release” Emergency Relief funds to repair flood damage to bridges and roads in Custer Gallatin National Forest in south central Montana.
By David Beasley | Jul 26, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed changes to the interpretation and application of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By David Beasley | Jul 24, 2022
Efforts to improve road safety and streamline the process for getting a Commercial Drivers License is getting a $44 million assist, thanks to grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
By David Beasley | Jul 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and a contractor, Central Plateau Company (CPCCo), have signed an agreement to safely advance the cleanup and risk reduction of the Hanford Nuclear plant's Central Plateau and Columbia River corridor in Washington State, according to a news release.
By David Beasley | Jul 23, 2022
Nearly 7,000 acres of community forests will be created or added "from Alaska to North Carolina," thanks to $5.5 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency announced recently.
