News from December 2022

By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: On December 8, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced the first cohort of participants in the Clean Energy Cybersecurity AcceleratorTM (CECA) program, which aims to give next-generation cybersecurity tech a boost in the earliest stages of development to bring solutions to market more rapidly.

By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page rule on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - About 50 students from an area high school recently visited the Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center for STEM Day, an interactive event educating local students on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM ) mission, the Hanford Site and career opportunities available to the next-generation workforce.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office and its contractor partners, Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) and the Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC), collaborated to host the DOE/ Energy Facility Contractors Group Fire Protection Workshop at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dominick Mickens, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 63 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: A bicameral comment letter, spearheaded in the House by Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), was sent yesterday to National Labor Relations Board (“the Board" or NLRB) Chairman Lauren McFerran to oppose the Biden administration’s proposed joint employer rule which would jeopardize businesses across the country.

By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), joined Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on the Senate floor to seek unanimous consent on a time agreement to pass their Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) this Congress to protect pregnant workers and ensure they have the basic workplace accommodations they need to have healthy pregnancies.

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau today released data from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions on an ongoing basis. The BTOS is the successor to the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), a high-frequency survey that measured the effect of changing business conditions during the coronavirus pandemic and other major events like hurricanes on our nation’s small businesses.

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Today, the United States is designating an international oil smuggling and money laundering network led by businessman Sitki Ayan for providing support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and Lebanese Hizballah, under counterterrorism sanctions authorities.

By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the United States of America and the Kingdom of Morocco: Begin Text The United States and Morocco co-hosted the North African Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Workshop from December 6-8, 2022, in Tangier, Morocco. The workshop – the first of ...

By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at Savannah River Site (SRS) have safely and successfully entombed in concrete two previously radioactive structures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A federal jury in Gainesville convicted Edwin Giovanny Mendoza-Verdugo, 20, of Sinaloa, Mexico, on one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, further finding Mendoza-Verdugo responsible for 40-400 grams of fentanyl, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: New Orleans, LA - U.S. Marshals New Orleans Task Force arrested fugitive sex offender, Jeremiah Shawn Prater (31 years of age) at a residence in the 1100 block of South Salcedo St. New Orleans, Louisiana on the morning of Nov. 14, 2019. A handgun and small amount of white powdery substance believed to be illegal narcotics were recovered and seized during his arrest. Two other males were also arrested at the residence.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ Washington Commanders report...
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Cory ...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: Vernal, Utah -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized an air quality plan, called a Federal Implementation Plan, which will require enforceable controls on the emissions of air pollutants from new, modified, and existing oil and natural gas facilities on Indian country lands within ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2022
News Release: SANTA FE, New Mexico - The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Claims Office is hosting two job fairs to fill available job openings.