By Lucas Nava | Oct 17, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management's Hanford Site has started to heat the world's largest melter at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 16, 2022
The liquid-waste contractor at a former nuclear-weapons manufacturing site in South Carolina is receiving kudos from the U.S. Department of Energy for completing a construction project early and under budget.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy issued a notice of intent for a $32 million investment into a new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-backed program supporting front-end engineering design studies to produce rare earth elements and other critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration announced the release of $59.9 billion in fiscal year 2023 apportionments for 12 formula programs.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy issued a request for information seeking public input on a $1 billion program focused on improving energy systems in rural or remote communities.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a proposal to clarify whether a worker can be classified as an independent contractor or as an employee, news that crashed the stocks of some gig-based companies.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation convened state, industry and federal leaders at a National Coalition of Truck Parking meeting to share resources made available by President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address the truck parking storage.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 13, 2022
Car manufacturer Honda announced an investment of more than $4 billion into three preexisting Ohio plants and the construction of a new electric vehicle plant in Fayette County.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 12, 2022
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the Department's Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened applications for Tribal, state and local governments to help remove and repair culverts that restrict fish passage.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 12, 2022
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm addressed the nation's oil and energy companies in a statement issued late last month, challenging them to reduce prices for Americans instead of pocketing record profits.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 12, 2022
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced that 39 defendants charged in Operation "Taste the Rainbow" have been sentenced to a combined 415 years in federal prison
By Lucas Nava | Oct 11, 2022
A dozen marine-highway projects are getting approximately $39 million under the America’s Marine Highway Program (AMHP) to increase their range of services.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy, alongside the National Conference of State Legislatures, concluded its seventh Tribal Clean Energy Summit Oct. 5.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 10, 2022
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and the University of Montana have developed a method to predict which of the Great Basin's more than 60 million acres are most likely to experience a large rangeland fire.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 10, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the awarding of a grant to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, to study the effects of pesticide use and its health impacts on migrant farmworkers and their children along the southern U.S. border.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 8, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released a statement regarding the Fifth Circuit Ruling on DACA.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 8, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the opening of a $400 million funding opportunity for basic research supporting the DOE's clean energy, economic and national security goals.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 6, 2022
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report calling for the U.S. Department of Energy to improve transparency in planning for the disposal of certain low-level nuclear waste.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 6, 2022
The nation's flight attendants now have one more hour to rest between shifts thanks to a rules change by the Federal Aviation Administration.
By Lucas Nava | Oct 5, 2022
Beginning next year, Amtrak's most advanced rail cars will be functioning and traveling through the nation's busiest rail stations, representing a major step towards the United States' goal of achieving modern, faster and more reliable intercity train service.
