News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022


EPA’s Design for the Environment Program Highlighted in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly Program

EPA’s Design for the Environment Program Highlighted in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly Program


EPA Announces Proposal to Protect Tribal Reserved Rights in Water Quality Standards and Best Practices for Tribal Treaty and Reserved Rights

EPA Announces Proposal to Protect Tribal Reserved Rights in Water Quality Standards and Best Practices for Tribal Treaty and Reserved Rights


EPA Announces More Than $105 Million in Funding for Oklahoma Water Infrastructure Improvements

EPA Announces More Than $105 Million in Funding for Oklahoma Water Infrastructure Improvements


EPA aims to reduce lead exposure with free Lead-Safe Renovation Training for Pueblo, Colorado-area contractors on December 5

EPA aims to reduce lead exposure with free Lead-Safe Renovation Training for Pueblo, Colorado-area contractors on December 5


EPA Announces $52M in Grants for States to Support Clean Water, Flood Resilience, and Water Equity

EPA Announces $52M in Grants for States to Support Clean Water, Flood Resilience, and Water Equity


EPA seeks public comment on proposed cleanup plan for Hegeler Zinc Superfund site in Vermilion County, Illinois


North Pacific Seafoods penalized $345,000 for Clean Air Act violations


The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $5 million cooperative agreement to the Solidarity Center to elevate women’s participation in the workplace, particularly those among underserved groups or populations in the West African nations of Liberia and Nigeria.


The U.S. Department of Labor, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the European Commission today led the inaugural principals’ meeting of the U.S. and European Union tripartite Trade and Labor Dialogue.


The U.S. Department of Labor’s Deputy Undersecretary for International Labor Affairs Thea Lee issued the following statement on the Department of State’s appointment of Kelly Marie Fay Rodriguez as Special Representative for International Labor Affairs:


Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today announced that Argentina, Canada, Germany, South Africa and Spain have joined the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights initiative and that the effort has established a new action plan and that the U.S. has exceeded its 2021 pledge of support.


New Quantum Light Source Paves the Way to a Quantum Internet


Scientists Narrow the Anchor Point in a Quantum Chromodynamics Critical Point Search


Three Techniques, Three Species, Different Ways to Fight Drought


Department of Energy Announces $11.24 Million for Research on Nuclear Theory Topical Collaborations


Department of Energy grant to train students at the interface of high energy physics and computer science


Grassland Study Examines Soil Viral Diversity in Drought


Experimental data validates new theory for molecular diffusion in polymer matrices



DOE Grant Will Recalibrate Current Climate Change Data