By Tamara Browning | Dec 29, 2022
A portion of the $649 million Double Track Project of the South Shore Line in Indiana will receive a $27.5 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Loan through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 28, 2022
An administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration citations and $24,290 in penalties against a Brookfield, Vt., telecommunications contractor due to an employee’s death.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 28, 2022
A nationally recognized expert in clean energy policy and programs is the new assistant secretary of energy.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy will host a webinar Feb. 1, 2023, to solicit feedback on the department’s proposed rulemaking to raise the minimum lightbulb efficiency level from 45 to more than 120 lumens per watt for common bulbs.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 27, 2022
United States airport security checkpoints are expected to be busier this holiday travel season compared to last year.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 27, 2022
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced charges against former CEO of Alameda Research Caroline Ellison and the former Chief Technology Officer of FTX Trading Ltd. Zixiao “Gary” Wang Dec. 21 for their roles in a fraud scheme that contributed to the collapse of crypto trading platform FTX Trading Ltd.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 26, 2022
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services welcomes public comments, written data and views as it conducts a trial for updates to the current naturalization test.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 26, 2022
The underboss of a Philadelphia mafia family has been sentenced to five years in prison for leading a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in loansharking, gambling and extortion.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 26, 2022
An historic fusion ignition was conducted Dec. 5 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the federal research facility in Livermore, California.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy offered $45 million in competitive grants to help states and organizations modernize building energy codes to lower energy bills.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will invest $285 million in infrastructure to lower energy costs, expand access to clean energy for rural Americans and combat climate change.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $273.9 million from the new Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program to entities that will help communities complete transportation projects.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 22, 2022
A Georgia businessman has been sentenced to two years in prison for making and subscribing a false tax return.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) initiative will fund $32 million in 41 awards to 37 institutions to support historically underrepresented groups in STEM, known as science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 22, 2022
Baker Technical Institute in Oregon will receive a $500,000 Brownfields Job Training grant to train 60 students and place at least 57 in local environmental jobs.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 21, 2022
The former Venezuelan national treasurer and her husband have been convicted in a billion-dollar currency exchange, bribery and money laundering scheme.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy will provide funding of more than $15 million for projects in Colorado and California that will demonstrate drilling innovations and help reduce renewable geothermal energy costs.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 20, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy launched four programs that will promote the carbon dioxide removal industry in the United States.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 19, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management will initiate environmental review of the Townsite Solar 2 Project right-of-way in its effort to continue processing the project’s application.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 19, 2022
Funding of $1.5 billion is available through a U.S. Department of Transportation program that funds freight and passenger transportation infrastructure projects.
