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Environmental Protection
EPA Announces Settlement for Groundwater Cleanup at Landfill and Resource Recovery, Inc. Superfund Site in N. Smithfield, Rhode Island
News Release: NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a proposed settlement with 13 "potentially responsible parties" (PRPs) which have agreed to finance and conduct all remedial design and remedial action activities to address groundwater contamination at the Landfill and Resource Recovery, Inc. (L&RR) Superfund Site located on Oxford Road in North Smithfield, Rhode Island.
State
U.S. Government and Foundations Announce New Public-Private Effort to Unlock Finance to Accelerate the Energy Transition
News Release: U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund announced a partnership today to work toward the creation of an Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) intended to catalyze private capital to accelerate the clean energy transition in developing countries.
Justice
New Jersey Woman Pleads Guilty to Possessing and Distributing Methamphetamine
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Camden, NJ pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
State
U.S. Government and Foundations Announce New Public-Private Effort to Unlock Finance to Accelerate the Energy Transition
Release: U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Bezos Earth Fund announced a partnership today to work toward the creation of an Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) intended to catalyze private capital to accelerate the clean energy transition in developing countries.
Commerce
Census Bureau Announces New Associate Director for Decennial Census Programs
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau announced today a change in associate director for Decennial Census Programs. Albert E. Fontenot Jr., who has held the position since October 2017, will be moving to a new role as executive senior advisor for Decennial Census Programs. Deborah Stempowski, currently assistant director for Decennial Census Programs, will be associate director for Decennial Census Programs.
State
DOS-ISN offers new grant application process starting Nov. 10
Fellowship for Counter Nuclear Smuggling in Support of U.S. Security and Nonproliferation Projects grant opened on Nov. 10.
Labor
Federal workplace safety investigation of Mapleton foundry worker’s fatal fall into molten iron finds Caterpillar failed to install required fall protection
News Release: MAPLETON, IL ‒ On June 2, 2022, a 39-year-old employee of a Mapleton foundry fell and was immediately incinerated in an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A federal investigation determined that, if required safety guards or fall protection had been installed, the 39-year-old employee’s ninth day on the job might not have been their last.
Labor
US Department of Labor seeks nationwide court injunction to stop Packers Sanitation Services’ ‘oppressive child labor’ violations at processing facilities
News Release: LINCOLN, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor today asked a federal court to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against Packers Sanitation Services Inc. LTD - one of the nation’s leading providers of food safety sanitation - to stop the company from illegally employing dozens of minor-aged workers while the department continues its investigation of the company’s labor practices.
Homeland
Border Patrol agents halted a human smuggling attempt at the Laredo Sector I-35 checkpoint
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents halted a human smuggling attempt at the I-35 checkpoint.
Homeland
Smugglers Use Trailers to Transport Migrants
Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents arrested 29 migrants and two drivers from two tractors pulling a grain hauler style trailer and a refrigerated trailer.
State
U.S. Government and Foundations Announce New Public-Private Effort to Unlock Finance to Accelerate the Energy Transition
Release: Thank you, Liz. And welcome, all of you, to the U.S. Center. I’m thrilled you can all join us for the start of what I believe is an absolutely critical conversation.
Justice
Two New Orleans Men Convicted by Federal Jury for Multiple Violent Carjacking Offenses
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that HAROLD FOSTER, age 31, and MARC DALTON, age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana were found guilty as charged on November 8, 2022 after a two-day jury trial before United States District Judge Jay C. Zainey. The defendants were facing two counts of carjacking...
State
DOS-ISN offers new grant application process starting Nov. 10
Fellowship for Afghan Chemical and Biological Experts in Support of U.S. Security and Nonproliferation Projects grant opened on Nov. 10.
Justice
Estes: 'Our communities are safer with these gun-carrying meth merchants off the streets' in Georgia
The last of 21 defendants in a drug trafficking conspiracy in a crime ring that distributed methamphetamine and other drugs in Georgia pleaded guilty to their crimes.
Homeland
Lechleitner: Catalytic converter thefts 'are not victimless crimes'
Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced various law enforcement officials from around the U.S. worked to take down a multi-million dollar catalytic converter theft ring.
Interior
Vietzke: New Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area superintendent ‘has extensive experience’
The acting superintendent of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area has officially been named its new superintendent.
Homeland
Foreign fugitive wanted in Mexico for brutal 2015 murder removed by ICE ERO Houston
News Release: HOUSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office removed an unlawfully present foreign fugitive Wednesday who is wanted in his home country of Mexico for allegedly murdering his fiancée in 2015.
Labor
Eastern Massachusetts roofing contractor again found exposing workers to fatal falls at Boston worksite
News Release: BRAINTREE, MA - A Quincy-based roofing contractor exposed workers on the roofs of a garage and house in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to potentially fatal falls from heights between seven and 21 feet, U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found.
Agriculture
USDA Invests $50 Million for Schools & Food Industry to Work Together to Strengthen School Meals
Release: Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 2022 USDAs Food and Nutrition Service today launched a new and innovative initiative for healthier school meals through a $50 million grant opportunity that will support collaboration with the food industry to develop nutritious, appetizing school meals for students. This launch follows through on a commitment made in the administrations.
Energy
Energy secretary: Success of national laboratories ‘will ensure U.S. at global forefront of innovation’
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science-managed national laboratories will receive help to build and upgrade scientific facilities thanks to $1.5 billion awarded through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Labor
US Department of Labor initiative seeks to protect food processing workers in Illinois, Ohio amid significantly higher injury rates
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ With injury rates among the more than 90,000 food production workers in Illinois and Ohio significantly higher than other manufacturing workers, the U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its outreach and enforcement efforts to reduce workplace hazards and better protect workers in these states.
Homeland
CBP Holds Jones Act Training at Custom House New Orleans
On November 2, 2022 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Jones Act Division of Enforcement (JADE) held local training to raise awareness of the 102-year-old federal statute, officially known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) officers, along with CBP import specialists and other personnel, were in attendance to learn the complexities of the act which governs U.S. maritime cabotage.
Homeland
RGC Agents Encountered Two Large Groups and Seized Marijuana Over the Weekend
Rio Grande City Border Patrol Station (RGC) agents encountered two large groups near La Grulla and disrupted a marijuana smuggling event with the assistance of Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers
Commerce
DOC offers new grant application process starting Nov. 10
2023 International Marine Turtle Management and Conservation Program grant opened on Nov. 10.
Agriculture
Lester Moffitt: 'USDA is excited to partner with Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians to promote economic opportunities for farmers and producers'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians signed a cooperative agreement under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program.