By Tamara Browning | Jan 10, 2023
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh has pledged the nation will begin 2023 in a position to sustain “worker-centered progress.”
By Tamara Browning | Jan 9, 2023
Three Wisconsin residents have been charged in the Dec. 9, 2022, murder of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service letter carrier.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 9, 2023
The deadline is Feb. 10 for funding this year through a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that helps farmers, ranchers and forest landowners earn payment to expand conservation activities.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 8, 2023
The Maryland State Department of Education will increase its purchase of local foods for school meal programs with the help of more than $2.9 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 7, 2023
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg cited an article in the Wall Street Journal in a social media post praising a boom in U.S. manufacturing triggered by an increased demand for electric vehicles.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 7, 2023
The application period is open for the second of two rounds of grants through The Emergency Food Assistance Program that supplements the diets of low-income Americans.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 7, 2023
A final rule establishing a definition of "waters of the United States” helped restored water protections placed before 2015 under the Clean Water Act.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 6, 2023
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack praised the swearing-in of Alexis Taylor as under secretary of trade and foreign agricultural affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 5, 2023
The University of North Dakota will use a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to use a process developed by a Pittsburgh, Pa., company that derives fuels, chemicals and advanced carbon materials from natural gas and coal.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 4, 2023
A procurement contractor for a decommissioned nuclear materials refinement site has saved the Office of Environmental Management more than $124 million in the past six years, including nearly $20 million in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 3, 2023
More than a dozen suppliers to a waste-treatment plant at a decommissioned nuclear production complex were lauded for contributions to projects at the site.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 3, 2023
A 2022 priority goal of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management was met ahead of schedule when a team at the former uranium enrichment facility in Paducah, Ky., removed 1 million pounds of an ozone-depleting chemical from the site.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 3, 2023
An area of government-managed public land near the Snake River in Idaho is closed to motorized vehicles and human entry in order to protect vulnerable wildlife wintering there.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 2, 2023
An ongoing pollinator study highlighting the important role of plants is among several wildlife conservation initiatives conducted at the Bluewater, New Mexico, Disposal Site.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 1, 2023
The U.S. Department of Energy will host a public meeting by webinar in February 2023 to consider its proposal to amend distribution transformers’ energy conservation standards.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 31, 2022
Several projects to help 36 communities in the west meet the challenges of drought have received $84.7 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 30, 2022
The public will be required to stay out of an area where a prescribed fire burn will take place Jan. 4-31 along U.S. Highway 50 near Scipio, Utah, in Millard County.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 30, 2022
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has pledged to hold Southwest Airlines accountable for its operational challenges that led to thousands of flight cancellations even as a winter storm that initiated the difficulties has subsided.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 29, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed $250,272 in penalties on a Texas construction company it found exposed workers to deadly hazards after a trench collapse caused the death of two workers.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 29, 2022
A Safford, Ariz., man has been sentenced to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography.
