News from August 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - FEMA will begin canvassing St. Louis-area communities affected by recent flooding starting Wednesday, August 10.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported sales of 196,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2022/2023 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
Release: CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 2022 (Updated Aug. 16, 2022) USDA Food and Nutrition Service today awarded the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) a SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant. This investment will help the state improve its recipient fraud prevention, detection, and investigation efforts by implementing principles from the SNAP Fraud Framework, a toolkit designed to help states prevent and detect fraud and sharpen their investigative techniques.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Office of Justice Programs Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Amy L. Solomon announced today that President Biden has appointed Dr. Alexis R. Piquero as Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Piquero, whose appointment takes effect August 15th, joins BJS from the University...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today awarded $7 million in the inaugural round of funding for the Semiquincentennial Grant Program commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Created by Congress in 2020 and funded through the Historic Preservation Fund, this round of grants will support 17 cultural resource preservation projects across 12 states.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement after President Biden signed H.R. 4346, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, into law, which passed the House last month...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on Aug. 9.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2023 Northeast and Midwest grant opened on Aug. 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million grant to Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, Vermont, to expand the college’s agricultural workforce development and entrepreneurship training programs. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program grant opened on Aug. 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - To promote the transfer of technology from laboratory to marketplace, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has redesigned the online platform where organizations report their taxpayer-funded inventions. The new Interagency Edison system,...
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: Jennifer Bachus, Senior Bureau Official for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, will travel to the San Francisco Bay Area August 9-12 to strengthen partnerships between the State Department and the digital technology and technology policy sectors. While in California, SBO Bachus will meet with leaders from ...
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
President Joe Biden recently announced his intention to appoint Elizabeth Rood as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkmenistan.
By David Beasley | Aug 10, 2022
Former White House adviser Seth Andrew was sentenced to a year in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud a charter school network that he founded of more than $218,000, a news release said.
By David Beasley | Aug 10, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy has granted a $102.1 million loan to Syrah Technologies, LLC, for the expansion of its Syrah Vidalia facility, which produces graphite-based, active anode material used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies, a news release said.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: PARK CITY, UT- A federal whistleblower investigation has found a Shreveport, Louisiana-based provider of helicopter ambulance services retaliated against a pilot in Utah who refused to fly twice in 2021 amid concerns about limited visibility.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the dismissal by the D.C. lower court of former President Trump’s attempt to block the release of his tax returns...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 11.
By State Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement upon return from the Presidential Delegation to Colombia...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.1 million grant to the Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, to help the University of Nevada Las Vegas develop a program to facilitate economic recovery, resilience, and diversification in the regional tourism industry. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
