News from August 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
There are six releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 9.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: The DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) is excited to launch a new program that will accelerate the ability of electric utilities to improve their cybersecurity posture. The Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Queens, N.Y. - The National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the conviction of the person(s) responsible for the intentional destruction of at least one American oystercatcher egg at the border of the Breezy Point Co-Operative and the National Park Service’s Gateway National Recreation Area Breezy Point Unit, Rockaway Point, New York.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Contact: Clayton Hanson. 307-837-2221, FOLA_Visitor_Information@nps.gov. Meet Fort Laramie’s Famous and Faceless During Western Encounters. FORT LARAMIE, WYO., August 8, 2022 - Visit Fort Laramie National Historic Site during the weekend of August 12-14, 2022, for the annual special...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
Release: By Tricia Kovacs, Deputy Administrator. Transportation and Marketing Program, Agricultural Marketing Service. Across the country, coast to coast, Alaska to Hawaii, farmers markets are providing people with fresh, locally sourced food and bringing communities together. USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack has...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes key health care provisions that will lower the cost of health care and lifesaving prescription drugs for Americans...
By Karen Kidd | Aug 8, 2022
U.S. House Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-New Mexico) and 53 fellow Republican House members have cosponsored a bill intended to confront the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party for "malign influence and theft."
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Legislation authored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to incentivize big corporations to invest in their workers rather than wealthy executives and shareholders today passed the Senate.
By State Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Fourteen years ago today, Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Georgia. As we have done since 2008, we remember those killed and injured by Russian forces. For decades, the citizens of Georgia in Abkhazia and South Ossetia have lived under Russian occupation and tens of thousands have been displaced, persecuted, and impoverished. Lives and livelihoods have been taken from them.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: DEL RIO, TEXAS - Amistad National Recreation Area will implement a fee increase and online reservation system for group campsite permits beginning Oct. 1, 2022. All other fees will remain the same and the standard campsites will remain available on a first-come, first-served basis.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding Senate passage of historic clean energy and climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, which are expected to slash our nation’s greenhouse gas pollution by 40 percent by 2030...
By State Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
Release: DEPUTY SECRETARY SHERMAN: Thank you all for being here. Good afternoon. And thank you for waiting. I really appreciate it. Schedules often get tighter than one imagines.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Legislation authored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today passed the Senate as part of the historic Inflation Reduction Act.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding Senate passage of historic clean energy and climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, which are expected to slash our nation’s greenhouse gas pollution by 40 percent by 2030...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Local governments and certain nonprofit organizations in Floyd, Knott, Owsley and Pike counties are now eligible for FEMA Public Assistance grants for debris removal and permanent work to repair public facilities that were damaged by the July flooding.
By Laurie A. Luebbert | Aug 8, 2022
Community colleges and training institutes will receive $3.1 million through the Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training Grant Program, awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
By Timothy Stuckey | Aug 8, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation recently celebrated the completion of the Lower Yellowstone Intake Diversion Dam Fish Passage Project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
By Timothy Stuckey | Aug 8, 2022
Eight natural gas processing facilities in Weld County, Colo., within the Denver Metro/North Front Range Ozone Nonattainment Area, are expected to improve their leak detection and repair procedures.
By David Beasley | Aug 8, 2022
A federal grand jury in Puerto Rico has indicted four people on cocaine charges, the U.S. Justice Department said in a recent press release.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 8, 2022
Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves called attention to Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML’s $200 million expansion of its Wilton, Connecticut facility during remarks he made at the Partnerships for Prosperity: U.S. Leadership in the Global Economy event.
