By Karen Kidd | Dec 6, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm is grateful for last month's confirmation of a vice president with a D.C.-based group that works to prevent mass attacks and accidents to be a deputy administrator in a key nuclear nonproliferation office
By Karen Kidd | Dec 6, 2021
Tribes in the United States who want insight into their income-driven “energy burden" now have an improved tool to help make informed, data-driven decisions about their energy costs and goals.
By Karen Kidd | Dec 6, 2021
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management Site Manager and local politician Ken Kreie went to a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) event in Colorado earlier this month.
By Karen Kidd | Dec 4, 2021
As the world focuses on supply chains, (un)timely delivery and empty store shelves, now most certainly isn't the time for freight companies to abuse its employees, the DOL says
By Karen Kidd | Dec 1, 2021
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday, Dec. 2, to consider two U.S. Department of Labor nominees
By Karen Kidd | Nov 30, 2021
The international campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is approaching this year's halfway mark with a global theme of “Orange the world: End violence against women now!”
By Karen Kidd | Nov 30, 2021
The U.S. State Department recently released a statement about Venezuela's election, calling the process “grossly skewed” in favor of incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 29, 2021
A U.S. State Department bureau originally founded as a "whole-of-government czar" for reconstruction and stabilization worldwide has evolved to anticipate, prevent and respond to international conflict, a recent State Department press release said.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 29, 2021
An Iowa-based cement company has recently agreed to pay almost $200,000 in fines levied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over alleged violations of federal environmental law.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 29, 2021
More than a dozen partners were recognized this year in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program for their recycling efforts.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 29, 2021
A Tokyo-based energy markets researcher called attention in a Twitter post to President Joe Biden's decision before a new COVID variant surfaced to release millions of barrels of crude oil from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 28, 2021
The U.S. Department of Commerce is "thrilled" about the news that South Korean-based Samsung will build a new $17 billion semiconductor facility in a Central Texas city, according to a pre-Thanksgiving department news release.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 28, 2021
Discussions earlier this month between U.S. and Malaysian governmental and business leaders produced renewed support for "the strong commercial relationship" for semiconductor trade between the two nations, according to a joint statement.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 28, 2021
The president's commitment to rebuilding back better in a post-COVID future – whenever that might be – has been reinforced by the $1 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal that made the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) permanent, a cabinet secretary said.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 28, 2021
A final report about whether California will receive a key license for a proposed reaction could come after the new year, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said in a social media post.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 24, 2021
A Sierra Club founding director, an assistant to Vice President Kamala Harris and White House staffers are among President Joe Biden-appointees to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced last week
By Karen Kidd | Nov 24, 2021
The power failures of Winter Storm Uri must never happen again, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)'s chairman said in a recent news release.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 22, 2021
The U.S. Census Bureau recently released details about the millions of U.S. Veterans living in the United States
By Karen Kidd | Nov 22, 2021
The U.S. Department of Commerce will use billions in recently allocated Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds to help expand low-cost broadband access across the nation.
By Karen Kidd | Nov 22, 2021
The United States and Japan recently set a framework to discuss the ongoing U.S. tariffs dispute over Japanese steel and aluminum, a commerce official said.
