News from December 2022
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $500,000 grant funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for an environmental job training program in Indiana. EPA’s Brownfields Jobs Training Program grant will recruit, train, and place workers for community revitalization ...

By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
U.S. Embassy BURKINA FASO PAS Annual Program grant opened on Dec. 15.

By Karen Kidd | Dec 15, 2022
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's (R-WI) uneasy support for a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded into February may well come down to Senate action on Thursday.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal judge convicted a Norfolk man today on charges of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Washington County, Arkansas, man was sentenced today to 151 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
F24AS00003 - NAWCA 2024-1 US Standard Grants grant opened on Dec. 15.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: So this is a very good occasion, but it’s a particularly good occasion because we greatly value Ghana’s leadership and your leadership in West Africa, the important efforts on regional security. We’re strong partners, including on the UN Security Council, which we greatly value, partners ...

By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
U.S. Embassy BURKINA FASO PAS Annual Program Statement grant opened on Dec. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Letitia James, New York State Attorney General, announced today a settlement agreement with a Brooklyn-based licensed home care service agency (LHCSA) White Glove Community Care, Inc. (White Glove). The settlement agreement...

By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
Julia Taft Refugee Notice of Funding Opportunity, POL/ECON, U.S. Embassy Yaounde grant opened on Dec. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Clarence Boone, the former Senior Economic Development Manager of Stonecrest, pleaded guilty to conspiring with his wife, Lania Boone, and the former Mayor of Stonecrest, Jason Lary, to steal pandemic relief funds intended to support small businesses in Stonecrest.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing by condemning violence in all forms and warned against ignoring facts about the increase in crime in the United States. He emphasized that crime and violence has increased across the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Paul David Fairburn, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Seattle - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington and Tri-Med Ambulance LLC, have reached a settlement agreement aimed at improving services for patients who are deaf or hard of hearing, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. The settlement resolves an Americans with Disabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43 year-old Houston resident has been sent to prison for robbery of a Family Dollar store, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

By Sam Jackson | Dec 15, 2022
U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) said a bill he wrote that aims to lower the levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at commercial airports has now passed the Senate and been sent to President Biden to be signed into law.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Adding to the growing list of cooperative, or co-op, programs with colleges and universities, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM ) Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) has launched a new pathway to jobs on the Hanford Site.

By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Utah for more than $1.9 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.