News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022


Chemists create an 'artificial photosynthesis' system that is 10 times more efficient than existing systems



FSU chemistry doctoral student receives Department of Energy research award to build safer, better batteries


Department of Energy funds four different projects making impact in fields of chemistry and physics


University of Missouri is helping the aviation industry go “green”


Curreli tokamak research part of $47 million funding package by Department of Energy


New study to examine how plants transport water from soil to atmosphere


WT Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Further Study of Cloud Formation


CABBI Team Adds Powerful New Dimension to Phenotyping Next-Gen Bioenergy Crop


Scripps Oceanography, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Join Forces To Pursue Common Interests


LSU Improves Storm Surge And Flood Predictions With Ai


The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urgently calls on all vehicle owners to check now for open Takata recalls on their vehicles, after confirming another Takata rupture fatality.


SCGSR Fellow Brings Astrophysics Data Skills to Berkeley Lab and Black Holes

SCGSR Fellow Brings Astrophysics Data Skills to Berkeley Lab and Black Holes


The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today announced that Shailen Bhatt has been confirmed as the 21st Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Nominated by President Biden on July 21, 2022, Mr. Bhatt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 8, 2022. He is the first person of Indian descent to lead FHWA.


The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcing the availability of almost $2.3 billion in funding to expand and modernize intercity passenger rail nationwide through the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail Grant Program (Partnership Program).


Congress passed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22) in June 2022.


U.S. airline financial reports are filed quarterly with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)


Tuesday evening, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), along with House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.-04) and Ranking Member Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.-06), released final text of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022.


PhD student Claire Griesbach receives Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award to make nuclear fuel particles more resilient

PhD student Claire Griesbach receives Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award to make nuclear fuel particles more resilient


U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today issued the following statement on a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would eliminate an exemption on reporting the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI):