News from April 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is not “appropriate and necessary" to regulate hazardous air pollutants such as mercury from coal- and oil-fired power plants - reversing a 2016 EPA determination...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2020
News Release: An estimated 7,500 students have participated in STEM-sation events on the Navajo Nation since the first event rolled out at Shiprock High School in New Mexico in spring of 2018, according to Nathan Tohtsoni, one of the event’s key organizers and an education coordinator for Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Sierra Front Field Office, announces the postponement of the opening of Indian Creek Campground, located adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County, California. This campground usually opens around the first of May and remains open until mid-October. The campground will be closed through May or longer if needed.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: National Park Service officials announced today additional modifications to operations on the Blue Ridge Parkway in a continuing effort to support federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Effective immediately, and in addition to all existing restroom, visitor center, campground and picnic area closures, the Blue Ridge Parkway is implementing closures at the following locations until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Joshua Brissette, 35, of Burlington, Vermont, was charged this morning by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Department to Temporarily Amend Certain H-2A Requirements During COVID-19 National Emergency WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security, with the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced a temporary final rule to change certain H-2A requirements to help U.S. agricultural ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Department to Temporarily Amend Certain H-2A Requirements During COVID-19 National Emergency (Washington, D.C., April 15, 2020) – The Department of Homeland Security, with the support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced a temporary final rule to change certain H-2A requirements ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: Logan Laboratories Inc. (Logan Labs), a reference laboratory in Tampa, Florida; Tampa Pain Relief Centers Inc. (Tampa Pain), a pain clinic also based in Tampa Florida, and; two of their former executives, Michael T. Doyle and Christopher Utz Toepke (collectively, Defendants) have agreed to pay a total ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON, MA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Boston, Massachusetts-based Analysis Group Inc. – one of the nation’s largest litigation support firms – have entered into a conciliation agreement to resolve allegations of hiring and compensation discrimination at several of the firm’s U.S. facilities.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of the first installment of 26 Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs) totaling $131,384,557 to help address the workforce-related impacts of the coronavirus public health emergency. These awards are funded under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which provided $345 million for DWGs to prevent, prepare for and respond to coronavirus.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced the availability of $73 million in State Apprenticeship Expansion Grants aimed at expanding apprenticeships throughout the country.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON, MA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Boston, Massachusetts-based Analysis Group Inc. – one of the nation’s largest litigation support firms – have entered into a conciliation agreement to resolve allegations of hiring and compensation discrimination at several of the firm’s U.S. facilities.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of the first installment of 26 Dislocated Worker Grants (DWGs) totaling $131,384,557 to help address the workforce-related impacts of the coronavirus public health emergency. These awards are funded under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which provided $345 million for DWGs to prevent, prepare for and respond to coronavirus.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced the availability of $73 million in State Apprenticeship Expansion Grants aimed at expanding apprenticeships throughout the country.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2020
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on April 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Apr 15, 2020
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on April 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 15, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a four page proposed rule on April 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
