LaTourette: 'New Jersey is excited to advance its critical work of reducing and responding to climate change'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 26, 2023
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $3 million for New Jersey to plan ways to reduce pollution and build clean energy economies.
Driscoll: 'Chiu exploited his access to facilitate a years-long scheme to embezzle'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 26, 2023
A former New York-area bank employee is being charged in an almost two-year-long, $2 million fraud and embezzlement scheme.
Lester Moffit: 'USDA is excited to partner with Forest County Potawatomi Community'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service recently signed a cooperative agreement with the Forest County Potawatomi Community.
Cosby: 'Projects will empower communities to reduce waste'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making $9.5 million available for Compost and Food Waste Reduction pilot projects for 2023.
EPA's 'Fix a Leak Week' has been 'helping people save water and money' for 15 years, agency wastewater management director says
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
Gotta water leak? A couple of days remain to get it fixed and make it part of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 15th annual "Fix a Leak Week," EPA's WaterSense program's way to encourage consumers and businesses to find and repair plumbing leaks in homes and improve landscaping irrigation systems.
Graham: 'We prepare to mark the 60th anniversary of Medgar Evers' assassination'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
Public comment is now underway over a draft operations plan for Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Miss.
Boger: Legacy Management 'monuments are important for the long-term stewardship of the site'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
U.S. Department of Energy Legacy management recently installed six new aerial-survey quality-control monuments at the Falls City, Texas, disposal site.
Granholm: 'To meet our future energy needs, we will need versatile renewables like bioenergy'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
U.S. Department of Energy recently announced funding to renew the four Bioenergy Research Centers.
Wang: 'Agreements will provide an effective remedy for grape farmers and processors of white grape juice concentrate'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 25, 2023
U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced antidumping and countervailing duty suspension agreements on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina.
Newland: 'Revitalizing Tribal economies is key to our goal of making lives better for people'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 24, 2023
Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development recently announced more than $3 million in Tribal Tourism Grant Program funding.
Noyes: 'This is the first time we are treating tank waste on an industrial scale at Hanford'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 24, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Office of River Protection and Washington River Protection Solutions are resuming processing tank waste at the Hanford Site using the Tank-Side Cesium Removal System.
Ryan: 'We need to close the facility' to protect wild horses from strangles
By Karen Kidd | Mar 24, 2023
The Bureau of Land Management is suspending visits and adoptions at the wild horse and burro corrals in Litchfield, Calif., due to a bacterial infection.
Egan: 'It's important to implement basic cybersecurity best practices' for wind turbines
By Karen Kidd | Mar 24, 2023
U.S. Department of Energy Wind Energy Technologies Office is working to reduce cyber threats to the nation's wind turbine fleet.
Graves: 'We will hold officers who commit civil rights violations accountable'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department sergeant has been indicted with a federal civil rights violation and second-degree murder.
Blinken: 'I commended Ethiopian federal and Tigrayan regional officials' for following through on peace efforts
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with the signatories of the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.
Liu: Berkeley Lab 'opens up a new approach to developing EV batteries'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists developed a new conductive polymer coating which could provide longer lasting and more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Huff: 'Our nation's existing reactor fleet can produce clean hydrogen'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 23, 2023
An upstate New York nuclear power plant has begun clean hydrogen production, making it the first-of-its-kind facility in the nation to do so
Lester Moffitt: Georgia lunch program 'gives students access to nutritious foods unique to the area they live in'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 22, 2023
U.S. Department of Agriculture signed a cooperative agreement with the Georgia Department of Education through the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program.
Mayorkas: 'National Cybersecurity Strategy establishes a clear vision for a secure cyberspace'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 21, 2023
President Joe Biden's National Cybersecurity Strategy was released March 2.
Vilsack: 'Proposed changes are intended to provide consumers with accurate information'
By Karen Kidd | Mar 21, 2023
U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced a proposed rule with new regulatory requirements regarding the "Product of USA" label.
