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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Availability of $16 Million for Pollution Prevention in Environmental Justice Communities

News Release: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Global Xpress Parts LLC of Elwood, Indiana, and Extra Power Performance LLC of Carmel, Indiana to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations involving the sale of “defeat devices” designed to bypass or disable vehicle emissions control systems. ...

News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - An Ayden man was sentenced today to 165 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. On July 19, 2022, Maurice Montrell Greene pled guilty to his role in the conspiracy. Greene was the leader of the local “Grape Street" Crips gang set during the time that he was under investigation.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Full Committee markup of 20 bills.

EPA Announces $16 Million in Pollution Prevention Grants Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Full Committee markup of 20 bills.

News Release: WASHINGTON-The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2024, which includes significant funding increases for wildland fire and hazardous fuels management. These investments will help address the nation’s wildfire crisis and implement comprehensive ...

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

News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Five U.S. citizens and one Mexican national have been convicted of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute a total of approximately 75 kilograms of meth associated with an independent drug cartel located in Michoacan, Mexico, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee members today advanced 13 bipartisan solutions during a Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup.

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

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.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm and National Intelligence Director Avril Haines requesting a briefing regarding the DOE’s assessment that concludes the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak in China.

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, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) commended the passage of H.R. 1123, the Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act, which was passed on the House floor by suspension yesterday...

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.

EPA Requires ACS, LLC in Yuma to Improve Chemical Safety

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The Budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share-all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes.

News Release: CUSSETA, AL - The independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed citations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to a global auto parts supplier after the 2016 death of a 20-year-old machine operator at an Alabama manufacturing facility.

Release: WASHINGTON Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a new cybersecurity amendment on an emergency basis to the security programs of certain TSA-regulated airport and aircraft operators, following similar measures announced in October 2022 for passenger and freight railroad carriers.

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the members of its Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, or CDIAC, and the president and vice president of the council for 2023.