News from August 2022

By Bob Pepalis | Aug 4, 2022
A Pompano Beach roofing contractor's failure to heed warnings in 2018 on hazards of falls reportedly led to the death of a 25-year-old worker in February.

By Tamara Browning | Aug 4, 2022
The deadline is Aug. 25 for applicants to submit concept papers for a $96 million funding opportunity supporting the decarbonizing of domestic transportation.

By Bob Pepalis | Aug 4, 2022
A $3.7 million American Rescue Plan grant from the Department of Commerce will enable Vicksburg, Mich., to update its wastewater treatment system to increase capacity for company expansion and commercial development.

By Trina Thomas | Aug 4, 2022
The San Francisco Bay watersheds and wetlands are being protected and restored with the help of a record-breaking $29 million in funds from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

By Timothy Stuckey | Aug 4, 2022
The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has entered into a cooperative agreement with the state of Montana under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA).

By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
FY2022 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- Preservation Grants grant opened on Aug. 4.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s nomination of David Crane to serve as Under Secretary for Infrastructure at the U.S. Department of Energy...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to four major oil companies today demanding answers for how they are using their record high profits, and what - if anything - each company is doing to alleviate Americans’ pain at the pump.

By Tamara Browning | Aug 4, 2022
Sentencing will be Thursday, Oct. 27, for the founder of My Big Coin who was found guilty of cryptocurrency fraud of over $6 million on July 21 by a federal jury.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to four major oil companies today demanding answers for how they are using their record high profits, and what - if anything - each company is doing to alleviate Americans’ pain at the pump.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
DNN R&D UNIVERSITY PROGRAM: CONSORTIUM FOR NUCLEAR FORENSICS grant opened on Aug. 4.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Join the National Park Service for evenings filled with family-fun and FREE live music at the Fort Dupont Park Summer Event Series. The 50th Anniversary season kicked-off on Saturday, July 30 with performances from Sirius Company, Be’La Dona, The Soul Searchers and DJ Rico. The Summer Event Series continues starting August 13.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
“THRIFTY FLOOD PLAN” was published on pages S4034-S4036 of the Congressional Record on Aug. 4.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a memorandum with findings from an internal investigation conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
Release: Local staff from USDA offices around the world were in the United States recently, exchanging information with American farmers and producers and learning firsthand how U.S. agricultural systems and processes work.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
Release: Thank you, Governor Cooper, for the kind introduction. And thank you to our host, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. I am thrilled to be here with you to celebrate our 32 Good Jobs Challenge awardees.

By David Beasley | Aug 4, 2022
The Cyber Incident Reporting Council (CIRC), a new group made up of federal agencies with a congressional mandate to coordinate, deconflict, and harmonize current and future federal cyber incident reporting requirements, met for the first time on July 22.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: Today, NOAA-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone "- an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life - is approximately 3,275 square miles. That’s more than 2 million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species - larger than the land area of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Finance Committee on Aug. 3.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
FY2022 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights- History Grants grant opened on Aug. 4.