By Tamara Browning | Mar 31, 2022
A reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of an alleged Guatemalan drug kingpin indicted on Jan. 29, 2019, in San Diego is being offered by the U.S. Department of State
By Tamara Browning | Mar 31, 2022
A Jefferson, Texas, man was sentenced recently in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas for distributing bomb-making instructions.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 30, 2022
A Douglasville, Ga., man who used fraudulent emails to defraud the San Felipe-Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District of over $2 million has been sentenced to 52 months in prison.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 30, 2022
Leaders at two environmental organizations are praising the experience of Joseph Goffman, nominee for assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 27, 2022
The eligibility requirements have been updated for a U.S. Department of Agriculture program offering up to $50 million in pandemic assistance funds to help producers who sold hogs through a spot market sale during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a March 17 news release.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a backyard flock in New Hampshire, according to a March 17 USDA news release.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 22, 2022
Eleven Missouri school districts will be splitting $535,000 in rebate opportunities to replace 26 older buses with clean-energy models.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 8, 2022
A rebound in the use of coal-generated energy caused toxic power-plant emissions to be higher in 2021 than in 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last month.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 2, 2022
A total of $130 million in supplemental American Rescue Plan Act funding will help local and regional food producers sell to institutions such as universities, hospitals and governmental settings.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 25, 2022
A governmental agency is encouraging health care employers and related industries to help make 2022 safer for workers, considering a report that nursing assistants had the highest number of missed workdays due to workplace injuries and illnesses.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 25, 2022
Back wages of $120,321 for 36 workers were recovered from a West Columbia home healthcare provider that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found denied overtime pay to its employees.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 20, 2022
The National Park Service, for the first time in United States history, will participate in a multi-country nomination to the World Heritage List.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 18, 2022
A required report presented by the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury to Congress shows that health plans and health insurance issuers are failing to deliver parity of benefits for people they cover who have mental health and substance-use disorders.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 17, 2022
The United States cattle inventory was down 2% from January 2021, a report released on Jan. 31 said.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 15, 2022
A collegiate competition that promotes the design and building of “high-performance, low-carbon buildings powered by renewables” is noting its 20th anniversary in 2022 in part by opening up voting for the 20th Anniversary People’s Choice Award.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 10, 2022
The president and director of an electronics installation and repair company in Madison Heights have been ordered by a federal judge to restore $50,764 to the company’s retirement plan.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 6, 2022
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule that reaffirms that hazardous air pollutants such as mercury from power plants should be regulated.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 10, 2022
The seizure of a significant amount of fentanyl and cocaine by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at eight South Texas ports of entry underscores “the deadly nature of the contraband,” a field operations director said.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 15, 2021
A federal investigation of illegal tips allocations by the Pittsburgh restaurant Provision PGH at the Federal Galley has recovered $41,560 for 12 employees.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 8, 2021
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has recently commended, through peer review, a handbook on human health assessments by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
