News from December 2022
By EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) wrote to the President and CEO of TC Energy Corporation (TC Energy) today to express concern about the recent oil spill from the Keystone Pipeline in Washington County, Kansas and to request information from the company about the spill and how it plans to prevent future spills.
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: Distinguished Ambassadors: It’s my great honor to address you during your annual conference. But, First things first: a belated Happy Ukrainian Diplomats day! You have a lot to be proud of. Let me first salute President Zelensky, whose leadership and grit have inspired the world. And let me also recognize my good friend and partner, Foreign Minister Kuleba - Dmytro - who has been as tireless as all of you in rallying international support for Ukraine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The Disaster Recovery Center in St. Clair County, located at the Clyde Jordan Senior Citizen Center, 6755 State St. in East St. Louis, will be closing permanently one day early due to inclement weather.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2022 - U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists are developing new tests and tools to identify and track the COVID virus and its variants in wild and domestic animals.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement after the House Democratic Caucus unanimously elected him Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the 118th Congress...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Extremely cold weather is gripping much of the nation, including areas of Region 6 where these temperatures are a rare occurrence. Staying warm and dry is important when temperatures may dip into single digits and wind chills into subzero levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: CONCORD. N.H., - Jabreel A. Amir, 41, of Waterbury, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today following the U.S. Senate confirmation of Gene Rodrigues by voice vote to serve as Assistant Secretary for Electricity at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 26, 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), released the following statement on the Senate’s passage of the omnibus appropriations bill which includes a package of bipartisan reforms she crafted with HELP Ranking Member Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) to strengthen families’ retirement and emergency savings and which she fought to include in the bill.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to fully enforce our immigration and public health laws at the border. Individuals and families attempting to enter without authorization are being expelled, as required by court order under the Title 42 public health authority, or placed into removal...
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today reflected on the Biden Administration’s inaction on solving the crisis at the U.S. southern border and reiterated that Senate Republicans have solutions, as detailed in their June report.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation announced today that Reclamation will use $4.6 million to partner with water managers to conduct comprehensive water studies. This funding will help complete four basin studies in Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan Low Power Protection Act out of the House...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - A federal investigation has determined that by failing to follow required workplace safety standards, a Georgetown construction contractor gave two workers installing sewer lines in an underground trench - more than two stories deep - little chance of survival when a large section of the excavation collapsed, crushing them under thousands of pounds of soil and rocks.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Achieving a 2022 priority ahead of schedule, EM successfully removed 1 million pounds of an ozone-depleting chemical from the Paducah Site, a benefit to the environment comparable to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by taking about 10,000 vehicles off the road in a year.
By DOE 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 EPA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today highlighting important Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provisions that he fought to include in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus government funding package...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following statement today applauding inclusion of key health care provisions in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus funding package...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Before and during the early years of the National Park Service (NPS), publicity for national parks was spearheaded and funded by railroads, hotel operators, automobile associations, friendly newspaper and magazine editors, and others in the tourism industry. In the 1920s the NPS wrote and published stories...
