News from December 2021
By David Beasley | Dec 29, 2021
If you are traveling between now and the end of the year, get ready for a rush.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky - Three Disaster Recovery Centers are now open in Christian, Hickman and Hart counties in addition to the recovery centers already open in Warren, Hopkins, Caldwell, McLean, Fulton, Marshall and Graves counties.
By George Willis | Dec 29, 2021
Public input is being sought by the U.S. Department of Energy as it explores plans to create a program that ensures high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel is available in the United States, according to a DOE press release.
By Emily Bevard | Dec 29, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will use $1 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law towards 49 previously unfunded Superfund sites on the National Priorities List and accelerate the cleanup at dozens of sites contaminated by hazardous waste nationwide.
By Bob Martin | Dec 29, 2021
The Department of Energy is creating a new office intended on assisting in the Biden Administration’s climate agenda focused on creating jobs for Americans and reducing pollution.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
News Release: Beginning Sunday, Jan. 2, visitors to the NHS can expect these temporary changes for the month of January 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Michael Easley announced today that the Eastern District of North Carolina collected $36,556,528.37 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $26,265,414.19 was collected in criminal actions and $10,291,114.18 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
News Release: “A unanimous jury has found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of one of the worst crimes imaginable - facilitating and participating in the sexual abuse of children. Crimes that she committed with her long-time partner and co-conspirator, Jeffrey Epstein. The road to justice has been far too long. But, today...
By Emily Bevard | Dec 29, 2021
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor will supplement the H-2B cap with 20,000 additional temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
News Release: 62 firearms were illegally purchased in May 2021 alone.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department will be awarding $4.2 million to Tribal communities in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Wisconsin.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo issued the following statement highlighting key accomplishments at the Department of Commerce since the Biden-Harris administration took office on January 20, 2021.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
Firefighters, police officers, and other public safety workers could use data from multiple internet-connected devices to save lives.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
Secretary Gina M. Raimondo held a call with Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy of the Republic of Korea Moon Sung Wook to discuss the development of President Biden’s Indo-Pacific economic framework as well as U.S.-South Korea commercial engagement on semiconductors and supply chain resilience.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
First responders need to make fast decisions based on the best information they have available.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
The awarded funding adds to the more than $12.4 million that has been provided to 13 partners in 11 states since 2016.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
NIFA recently awarded 10 grants(link is external) for Pollinator Health research to sustain healthy populations of pollinators, which are crucial to the nation’s food security and environmental health.
By Press release submission | Dec 29, 2021
NIFA recently invested $7.5 million in 15 grants(link is external) for pests and beneficial species research to help develop improved strategies for promoting beneficial insects and microbes that have the potential to combat pests of agricultural crops.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man accused of stealing firearms from a business after breaking in by using a construction excavator to tear down a section of wall and door admitted to a firearms crime today, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By State Newswire | Dec 29, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Non-Traditional Advocates for Transparency Response Fund. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008499. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345...
