By Tamara Browning | Sep 28, 2022
The naiton's recreation infrastructure will benefit from more than $37 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 28, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly created Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights will work to solve environmental challenges in underserved communities.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 28, 2022
Burmese nationals and habitual residents are eligible to temporarily stay in the U.S. until they can safely return to Burma under an extension of the temporary protected status.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 27, 2022
Wyoming will receive more than $325,000 to increase the purchase of local food for school meal programs thanks to a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 26, 2022
Chemical supplier Transchem Inc. will pay a $147,617 civil penalty for Toxic Substances Control Act violations the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 26, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has expanded its online shopping for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by adding more than 150 retail chains through which participants can shop for groceries.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 25, 2022
A Vista, Calif., man was sentenced Sept. 19 to 57 months in custody for submitting false applications for unemployment benefits to California’s Employment Development Department.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 25, 2022
The Jackson County Airport – Reynolds Field in Jackson, Mich., will receive $2.2 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to rehabilitate a 60-year-old air traffic control tower and improve cab equipment.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded 43 grants of $20 million to help local communities strengthen their violence and terrorism prevention efforts.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 22, 2022
A historically Black university in Institute, W.Va., has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mid-Atlantic Region that will help promote partnerships and opportunities to enhance the enviromental science curriculum.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 21, 2022
Government officials marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a national tour Sept. 16 that featured the San Francisco Bay in North Richmond, Calif.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend up to $2.8 billion in 70 selected projects under the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 19, 2022
Communities with brownfield sites are now eligible for a portion of the approximately $169 million in grant funding for remediation of the sites, without the matching-funds requirement in some cases.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 18, 2022
Government officials marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act with a Sept. 12 tour featuring the largest estuary in the United States.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 18, 2022
Final replacement names have been voted on by the Board on Geographic Names for nearly 650 geographic features that have what has been determined to be “an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur” for Indigenous women.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 17, 2022
A Missouri man who was a leader of a white supremacist prison gang has been sentenced to life in prison for violations of a federal law designed to combat organized crime.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 17, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Sept. 9 that it awarded $2 million in research funding to the University of California, Berkeley for the development of a tool supporting enhanced aquifer recharge.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 16, 2022
A former fertilizer company in Guánica, Puerto Rico, is among five sites the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added to its Superfund National Priorities List.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 16, 2022
A 34-year-old man from Mexico has been sentenced to four years and four months in federal prison for illegal reentry into the U.S. after removal and an aggravated felony conviction.
By Tamara Browning | Sep 15, 2022
Applications are due by Nov. 22 for funding through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields and Land Revitalization Program that has approximately $169 million in funding.
