News published on Federal Newswire in August 2022

News from August 2022


EPA Seeks Input on Proposed Amendments to the New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units

News Release: WASHINGTON (Aug. 15, 2022) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a potential Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. This Panel will focus on the agency’s ...


Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas

News Release: Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees and harvested or stored crops and hay.


Human rights organizations 'strongly urge appropriate sanctions' against CCP officials involved in abuses against Uyghurs 

A number of human rights groups recently issued a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders be immediately sanctioned for their crimes against millions of Uyghurs and other ethnic people, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOCMF).


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


EPA fines Autosales, Inc., which has location in Reno, for selling defeat devices, harming air quality

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 22, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that Ohio-based Autosales, Inc. will pay a $600,000 penalty under the Clean Air Act for illegally selling aftermarket products that alter vehicles’ emissions-control systems – known popularly as defeat devices ...


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - MS-13 gang member, Jilmer Hernandez-Alvarado, a/k/a “Toro", age 27, most recently of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to extort business owners.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADRIAN JOHNSON, 32, of Waterloo, Iowa, was sentenced today by U.S. District Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 22 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for sending threatening emails to a Connecticut company.


U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Appoints 15 to the Inaugural National Concrete Masonry Products Board

News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the appointment of 15 business leaders to a new National Concrete Masonry Products Board, an industry-funded program devoted to research, education, and promotion of concrete masonry products. The program, fully funded by industry through assessments on the sale of its products, does not use taxpayer dollars.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million grant to Friends of Lapham Peak, Delafield, Wisconsin, to boost tourism by building a new lodge at Kettle Moraine State Forest. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.


News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury today convicted Victor Makras, a prominent San Francisco real estate broker and investor, of making false statements to a bank and of bank fraud tied to fraudulent representations made in a mortgage refinance loan application, announced United States Attorney Stephanie...


Tulsa Advances to Round 2 Consideration for FEMA Mitigation Grant to Enhance Community Resilience

News Release: DENTON, Texas - The City of Tulsa has advanced to Round 2 consideration for FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant. The nearly $20 million project would improve the city’s resilience to flooding and extreme heat, as well as its water quality. If selected, the City of Tulsa would use the funds to make significant drainage improvements to Fulton Creek.


Federal Energy Regulatory Commission set to publish a new notice on Sept. 1

There are six releases scheduled to be published on Sept. 1.


DOE’s Office of Science Is Now Accepting Applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Awards


Hoffmann studying materials whose traits resemble those of the human brain


News Release: Stillwater, NY - Saratoga National Historical Park announces weekday road closure of the Tour Road will resume after Labor Day. These closures are a part of the multi-year project to rehabilitate the interpretive battlefield experience.


Student view: Finding adventure, balance and connection


Physics’ Yao Wang wins prestigious U.S. DOE Early Career Award



Scientists Take Another Theoretical Step to Uncovering the Mystery of Dark Matter, Black Holes


Researchers 3D Print First High-Performance Nanostructured Alloy That’s Both Ultrastrong and Ductile