Stories by Tamara Browning on Federal Newswire


City of Chester to receive $2.4 million for stormwater improvements

A nearly $2.4 million Environmental Protection Agency grant to the City of Chester, Pa., will help the municipality upgrade its green infrastructure to reduce stormwater overflows.


Cybersecurity Talent Management System launch will help competition ‘for cybersecurity professionals’

A new personnel system that will help the Department of Homeland Security recruit, develop and retain top cybersecurity professionals was launched on Nov. 15.


DOJ sues to block Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger, says it ‘would likely harm competition'

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division sued to stop a $2.18 billion merger between publisher Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, saying it “would likely harm competition in the publishing industry.”


Ohio man pleads guilty ‘to attempting to provide material support’ to terrorists

A Beavercreek, Ohio, man who was arrested in 2018 while attempting to travel overseas to join a terrorist group pleaded guilty last month in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in Dayton.


Wellfleet must pay $1.4 million to ‘illegally misclassified employees’ following DOL investigation

The Las Vegas telemarketing enterprise Wellfleet Communications and its owners must pay over $1.4 million in back wages and liquidated damages to over 1,328 call center workers whom the business shortchanged, a federal court has ordered.


Rhode Island gets $1.3 million from DOL to combat opioid crisis

Five counties in Rhode Island will receive funding support for the creation of jobs and workforce training services for approximately 670 people to combat the state’s opioid crisis thanks to over $1.3 million the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the state.


USFWS, NMFS propose rescissions to ESA to 'protect' America's biological heritage

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service recently proposed rescissions under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 regarding what constitutes a “habitat.”


NPCA: Congress 'must' invest millions to upgrade air monitoring at national parks

A national association that protects and preserves U.S. national parks is calling on Congress to invest $3.3 million to fix air quality monitors that measure air pollution at the parks.


BOEM to ‘welcome’ input on planned Wilmington East WEA lease sale

The public will have until 11:59 p.m. EST Sunday, Sept. 12, to comment on plans by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to enter into a lease sale for the Wilmington East Wind Energy Area.


Public invited to provide ‘testimony’ for wind energy facility offshore North Carolina

Virtual public meetings are scheduled in line with a public comment period in preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind Project offshore North Carolina.


Fees waived at DOI lands for Americans to ‘experience the beauty and bounty’

Entrance fees were waived Aug. 4 at all fee-collecting public lands the U.S. Department of the Interior manages in observance of the first anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act.