News from June 2021
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: Today, House Committee on Education and Labor Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) wrote Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda Young and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Kathleen McGettigan regarding the Biden administration’s use of ethics waivers to bring union influence into the federal bureaucracy.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) recently awarded more than $15,000 in educational grants to local elementary school teachers, helping to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum in their classrooms.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered opening remarks at Tuesday’s Health Subcommittee hearing on vaccine legislation.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Booster Shot: Enhancing Public Health through Vaccine Legislation:"
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, FEMA announced the 2021-2022 Youth Preparedness Council members. FEMA selected nine new members to join six returning council members. Members are selected based on their dedication to public service, community involvement and potential to increase levels of community resilience throughout the country.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently removed a septic system and well associated with a former one-room schoolhouse demolished in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2021
News Release: Defendant Fled After Being Charged With Conspiracy Relating to a 2010 Distributed Denial of Service Attack Against Santa Cruz County Website.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cheryl A. Mulvey, 68, and Lawrence Mulvey, 67, both of Grand Island, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to accessory after the fact, which carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison, and a fine of $125,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: Thanks to dedicated Palo Alto volunteers, the park can now tell a little-known aspect of Great Britain’s involvement in final peace negotiations. During the War, British businesses in Mexico suffered. Therefore, British officials entered secret negotiations with both Mexico and U.S. officials to bring the war to an end.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former supervisor for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has been charged in federal court with conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: We have all endured a pretty tough year. Our country, citizens and businesses have faced real challenges, but through it all there has been one constant: Science. Because of science we asked and answered questions about COVID-19 and conducted research to know more about the coronavirus and its characteristics. It led S&T to curate critical resources for those on the front lines and to study past threats to prepare for and prevent future pandemics.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today blasted the Biden Administration’s policy guidance which needlessly delays the return of federal employees to the workplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today made the following statement: “As I stated during my confirmation hearing, political or other improper considerations must play no role in any investigative or prosecutorial decisions. These principles that have long been held as sacrosanct by the DOJ career ...
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (ACPD) will hold a virtual public meeting from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, June 17, 2021, focused on “Innovative Public Diplomacy Responses to China’s Influence Strategies.” A panel of experts on China’s information and public diplomacy initiatives, ...
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Lisa Peterson will travel to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), June 14-18, to represent the United States in the first ever U.S.-DRC bilateral human rights dialogue.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: Transfer of Surplus Federal Land to the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust Could Provide Up To 400 New Homesteads for Native Hawaiian Families As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to honor relationships with Indigenous communities and uphold trust responsibilities, Secretary of the Interior ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Nearly one in 10 people endure noise levels at work loud enough to cause hearing loss while seven in 10 experience moderately loud noise levels, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yet, the bureau’s Occupational Requirements Survey, published in 2019, found that more than half of the nation’s manufacturing workers reported not using personal protective equipment to protect their hearing.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has named the American Society of Safety Professionals’ Big Sky Chapter an OSHA Alliance Program Ambassador in recognition of its partnership with OSHA and commitment to addressing workplace safety and health hazards in Montana.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has named the American Society of Safety Professionals’ Big Sky Chapter an OSHA Alliance Program Ambassador in recognition of its partnership with OSHA and commitment to addressing workplace safety and health hazards in Montana.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 14, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ Nearly one in 10 people endure noise levels at work loud enough to cause hearing loss while seven in 10 experience moderately loud noise levels, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yet, the bureau’s Occupational Requirements Survey, published in 2019, found that more than half of the nation’s manufacturing workers reported not using personal protective equipment to protect their hearing.
