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Release: Good afternoon and thank you all for being here. And thank you to the Government of Kuwait for again hosting us. This working group is critical to our collective effort to fight what continues to be a very real threat despite our significant progress.

News Release: A Mississippi man was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Halil S. Ozerden to 42 months* in prison followed by three years supervised release and restitution in the amount of $7,810 for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.

News Release: EPA protects Hawaii Island water resources, orders closure of illegal cesspools at My Self Storage Owner of self-storage business will close cesspools and pay $53,011 penalty HONOLULU (March 8, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken an enforcement action to close two illegal large-capacity cesspools at the My Self Storage locations in Kailua-Kona and Kealakekua. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA banned such cesspools in 2005.

EPA announces additional $65 million for Superfund cleanup projects at Montana mining sites

News Release: SHO MARUYAMA. Family # 2859. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 16-4-1. My father came to the US in 1898 and worked many jobs, including house boy, when he first arrived. His family operated a futon store in Ueda, Japan and he and his older brother had no opportunity in the store because of many older brothers.

2023/2024 Monkfish Research Set Aside grant opened on March 10.

News Release: SEATTLE (March 8, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $16 million in new grant funding opportunities for states and tribes to provide technical assistance to help local businesses develop and adopt pollution prevention or P2 practices and to better address environmental justice concerns in disadvantaged communities. This additional $16 million builds on the nearly $14 million in P2 grants funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law last year.

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Applied Research and Evaluation Fund: Political Party Support Amid Restricted Political Competition. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009352. Catalog...

News Release: WASHINGTON - A Virginia man was found guilty in the District of Columbia today of felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

News Release: BOSTON - The Lepage Bakery of Lewiston was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of 86 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency's 2022 ENERGY STAR certification.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an award of more than $1.5 million to support employment and training services for transitioning military service members in and around the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss installation in Texas.

News Release: GLORIA HISAKO TAMURA MORITA. Family # 7611. Camp: Tule Lake, CA. Address: 46-16-D. My father Jinjiro Tamura came to the United States from Japan about 1906, seeking a better life. He later returned to Japan to marry my mother Toku Koide. They settled in the Sacramento area and worked in a tomato cannery...

EPA Requires ACS, LLC in Yuma to Improve Chemical Safety

News Release: EIICHI “H.E." KAMIYA. Family # 11-017. Camp: Rohwer, AR. Address: 38-11-A. My father was born in Hawaii and went to Japan at age five when his father died, but returned to the US at the age of 19. My mother was born in CA, went to Japan for education at age five, and returned to the US at age 15. My father...

News Release: GEORGE H. MORISHITA. Family # 1340. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 5-11-3. My father emigrated to the United States in 1906, his fare financed by pay for serving in the Japanese army during the 1904-05 war between Japan and Russia. In 1924, in order to beat the deadline of the “Japanese Exclusion Act," my...

The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Please take a seat. And it is a special honor for me to be able to say, welcome to the White House. (Applause.) And welcome especially to the 2023 International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony to all of you participating here in person and tuning in from around the world.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup of 13 bills.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-AR), and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statements about H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.

News Release: A former managing director of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs) was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in a multibillion-dollar bribery and money laundering scheme involving Malaysia’s state-owned investment and development fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

News Release: Washington, DC- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee hearing examining the administration’s disastrous emergency evacuation from Afghanistan.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee markup of five bills.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced a Full Committee markup on 20 pieces of legislation.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a markup of five pieces of legislation.

United States and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Announce Settlement with City of Gloucester to Upgrade Sewage Treatment Infrastructure