By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The number of persons who experienced unemployment at some point during 2021 was16.1 million, down significantly from 26.4 million in 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) updated the full Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) database through the second quarter of 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $5 million cooperative agreement to the Solidarity Center to elevate women’s participation in the workplace, particularly those among underserved groups or populations in the West African nations of Liberia and Nigeria.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the European Commission today led the inaugural principals’ meeting of the U.S. and European Union tripartite Trade and Labor Dialogue.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Deputy Undersecretary for International Labor Affairs Thea Lee issued the following statement on the Department of State’s appointment of Kelly Marie Fay Rodriguez as Special Representative for International Labor Affairs:
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today announced that Argentina, Canada, Germany, South Africa and Spain have joined the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights initiative and that the effort has established a new action plan and that the U.S. has exceeded its 2021 pledge of support.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urgently calls on all vehicle owners to check now for open Takata recalls on their vehicles, after confirming another Takata rupture fatality.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today announced that Shailen Bhatt has been confirmed as the 21st Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Nominated by President Biden on July 21, 2022, Mr. Bhatt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 8, 2022. He is the first person of Indian descent to lead FHWA.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcing the availability of almost $2.3 billion in funding to expand and modernize intercity passenger rail nationwide through the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program (Partnership Program).
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Congress passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22) in June 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. airline financial reports are filed quarterly with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
Tuesday evening, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), along with House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.-04) and Ranking Member Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.-06), released final text of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today issued the following statement on a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would eliminate an exemption on reporting the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI):
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced S.5185, the Strengthening Coastal Communities Act of 2022, legislation that would expand and improve the system of vulnerable coastal areas protected under the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (CBRA).
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I), and Representative Sam Graves (R-Mo.), Ranking Member of the T&I Committee, today announced a final agreement on the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA 2022).
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today issued the following statement on a memorandum issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to state environmental agencies to limit the discharge of PFAS pollution into our nation’s waters:
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today issued the following statement after the Senate passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act by unanimous consent.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Shailen Bhatt to serve as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA):
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today delivered the following remarks during the Committee’s Executive Session.
By Press release submission | Dec 12, 2022
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today sent a letter to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, chair of the Committee, urging her to hold a hearing on the state of free speech on social media before the end of the 117th Congress.
