News from December 2022
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today announced $2.3 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create good-paying union jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands (AML) in Alaska (receiving $1.33 million) and Texas (receiving $986,367). The Department of the Interior has made $725 million available to 22 states and the Navajo Nation in fiscal year 2022.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - EM Senior Advisor William “Ike" White recently joined elected officials, local stakeholders and nearly 2,000 employees at the Portsmouth Site to celebrate the gaseous diffusion plant’s 70th anniversary.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have released a second call for nominations to fill two vacancies on the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board for the positions that represent livestock management and wildlife management.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: - Over 40% (19 million) of renter households in the country spent more than 30% of their income on housing costs during the 2017-2021 period, according to new American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Households spending more than 30% on housing costs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: A former Sapulpa police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for lying to law enforcement about a theft he committed while on-duty, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act, legislation to provide women the support they need to access reproductive health services...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Cucamonga, California, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today after a state trooper found 165 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $186 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to support its Wastewater Compliance and Sustainability Project. With this WIFIA loan, EPA is helping the City of Chattanooga improve its wastewater system’s energy efficiency and resilience to extreme weather while saving ratepayers millions of dollars.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four people have been charged for their roles in a kickback conspiracy involving COVID-19 testing that defrauded federal health insurance programs, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: HORNBROOK, Calif. - The Department of the Interior announced today that four Tribal water projects in Oregon and California's Klamath River Basin will receive $5.8 million through the Bureau of Reclamation to restore aquatic ecosystems, improve the resilience of habitats, and mitigate the effects of the ongoing drought crisis. The funding is made available through Reclamation's Native American Affairs Technical Assistance to Tribes Program.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement upon the release of Brittney Griner, an American WBNA player wrongfully imprisoned in Russia since February of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Defendants Entered Senate Chamber, Went Through Documents.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for escaping from federal custody and engaging in a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOL Newswire Report | Dec 9, 2022
Eliminating force labor was the main focus of the first leaders' meeting of the trilateral Trade and Labor Dialogue between the United States and the European Union.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it approved the largest multiemployer pension bailout in history...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Seattle - A 44-year-old resident of Dayton, Nevada, who previously resided in Burlington, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Between 2014 and 2020, John Holcomb made sexually explicit videos of a young...
