Stories by Tamara Browning on Federal Newswire


Stickney: 'I am very optimistic about the Hanford Site’s future'

The environmental cleanup continues with completion of a protective enclosure over a former reactor building at the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash., where reactors produced plutonium for more than 40 years.


Haaland praises National Park Service's 'quickly rebuilding after storm' as Yellowstone’s north entrance reopens

Road access in Yellowstone National Park has improved as the park’s north entrance and the road to Mammoth Hot Springs opened Sunday after major flooding in June caused road damage.


Indian Affairs’ Newland: Proposed revision on Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ‘helps us heal from’ painful past

The public has until Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2023, to comment on a proposed rule by the U.S. Department of the Interior that revises a law enacted in 1990 that requires museums and federal agencies to identify Native American human remains and more to repatriate them.


Dodd: Las Vegas Rescue Mission’s fundraiser ‘a great opportunity to support the community’

Employees with the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Nevada Program helped raise more than $126,000 for the Las Vegas Rescue Mission in downtown Las Vegas by participating in a fundraising walk.


Buttigieg: 'We are using new resources to help modernize America's aging rail cars'

Eligible transit agencies and states have until Jan. 5, 2023, to apply for $600 million in funding provided by the Federal Transit Administration to replace old rail cars.


Wild: 'Programs like this are essential to ensuring that we serve those who have served us'

Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville, Pa., got a boost in funding through a federal, two-year $193,677 grant to train commercial truck drivers as the U.S. faces a shortage in truck drivers.


Homendy: ‘Our recommendation on personal locator beacons’ has seen five years of waiting

The National Transportation Safety Board is renewing a recommendation that personal locator beacons be given employees on vessels.


McCollister: 'Tackling the climate crisis presents an important opportunity to bolster our economy'

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7’s newly released Climate Adaptation Implementation Plan outlines actions for implementing the 2021 EPA Climate Adaptation Action Plan that addresses climate change plus environmental justice and equity.


Ducheneaux: 'FSA can provide producers the economic support and security they need'

Agricultural producers have until March 15, 2023, to enroll in two "key safety net" U.S. Department of Agriculture programs for the 2023 crop year.


Moffitt: 'Grant programs provide crucial funding for projects, including farm to institution efforts'

Projects that expand and strengthen local and regional food systems got a boost Oct. 19 through grant awards of more than $64 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service.



Carlson: ‘Children’s lives are on the line’ when drivers illegally pass stopped school buses

A national paid media campaign launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to bring awareness to the “dangers of illegally passing stopped school buses” will end Oct. 31.


Driscoll: Fraud victims 'bled dry' in 'pig butchering' scam

Eleven people were arrested and arraigned in federal court for various investment-fraud and money-laundering scams that defrauded victims of $18 million.


Goffman: EPA’s program reports ‘important insights into greenhouse gas emissions trends’

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced greenhouse gas emissions have been decreasing overall since 2011.


//eip//Romero: Former Philadelphia treasurer guilty of ‘a shocking level of misconduct’

A former city treasurer has pleaded guilty to naturalization fraud and failure to file taxes.


Customs and Border Protection: 'Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 26 migrants'

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the arrest of a number of migrants Oct. 15-17.


Featherston: Texas man 'went to great lengths to defraud clients that trusted him'

A Texas man was found guilty Oct. 5 of several federal crimes related to a murder in Carrollton, Texas.


Vilsack: USDA agreement focuses on 'conserving private working lands and Tribal lands' in Wyoming

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Wyoming have signed a memorandum of understanding that creates a partnership to conserve big game habitat in the state.


Fox: 'WaterSense partners helped people save water, energy and money'

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented 34 awards to partners in its voluntary partnership program that promotes water efficiency.


Center for Immigration Studies: 'DHS and the White House clownishly blundered their way through the entire ‘Del Rio’ episode'

Article questions DHS’ Mayorkas, Biden on reactions to report of Haitian migrants’ alleged whipping