News from December 2022
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: Public Notice. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: Promoting Child Rights in the MENA Region. I. Requested Objectives for Statements of Interest. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces a Request for Statements of Interest (RSOI) from...
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: The United States welcomes the UN Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2669 on Burma. This is an important step by the Security Council to address the crisis and end the Burma military regime’s escalating repression and violence against civilians. It sends a strong message from the international...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Governments of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and the High Representative of the European Union on the occasion of the Taliban’s decision to ban women from universities.
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: A New York woman was arrested today for allegedly offering and paying illegal health care kickbacks and money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Jose Emilio Esteban, to serve as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Doug McKalip, to serve as Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging the following five individuals with fentanyl trafficking offenses...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs entered into a consent decree with Rosemount Inc. of Chanhassen, Minnesota, and its subsidiary, Rosemount Specialty Products LLC. of Wenatchee, Washington, requiring the federal contractor to provide documents and information necessary to complete a scheduled compliance review of the company’s equal employment opportunity practices.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House passed H.R. 2617, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing two important documents from its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program: The Office of Research and Development (ORD) Staff Handbook for Developing IRIS Assessments (IRIS Handbook) and the final IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorobutanoic Acid and Related Salts. These publications demonstrate EPA’s commitment to transparency and rigorous science for use in decision making.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $2,497,134 in research funding for 25 small businesses to develop technologies that address some of our most pressing environmental problems. Projects include technologies for detecting methane emissions, methods to prolong the shelf life of foods and reduce food waste, software systems to improve recycling and materials management, and a water sampling device to detect the presence of PFAS.
By Karen Kidd | Dec 26, 2022
Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently cited Amazon for not recording work-related injuries and illnesses properly.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a full Committee markup of a Republican resolution of inquiry...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary flood risk information and updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps are available for review in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Residents and business owners are encouraged to review the latest information to learn about local flood risks and potential future flood insurance requirements.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: On Thursday, Chair Kathy Castor of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Chairman Bobby L. Rush of the Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: A federal jury in Dallas convicted a Texas man today for receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse.
