News from February 2022
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
USDA-AMS-TM-ACER-G-22-0006 grant opened on Feb. 16.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In remarks at the National Congress of American Indians 2022 Executive Council Winter Session today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Department is requesting nominations for Tribal member representatives for the new Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee (STAC).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office is seeking public comments on a proposal to sell 35 parcels totaling 400.815 acres of public lands in the Las Vegas Valley in compliance with the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA.) A Notice of Realty Action published today in the Federal Register, opening a comment period which will close on April 4, 2022.
By Press Release | Feb 16, 2022
Over 300 United States Coast Guard members have demonstrated their character and leadership by supporting Operation Allies Welcome (OAW).
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Today, President Biden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce that as a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA will make significant progress in the clean-up and restoration of the Great Lakes’ most environmentally degraded sites, securing clean water and a better environment for millions of Americans in the Great Lakes region.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Today, President Biden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce that as a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA will make significant progress in the clean-up and restoration of the Great Lakes’ most environmentally degraded sites, securing clean water and a better environment for millions of Americans in the Great Lakes region.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Today, President Biden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce that as a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA will make significant progress in the clean-up and restoration of the Great Lakes’ most environmentally degraded sites, securing clean water and a better environment for millions of Americans in the Great Lakes region.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 16, 2022
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur Jaddou held a virtual briefing with national stakeholders on Feb. 2 — the one-year anniversary of several immigration-focused executive orders — to detail the agency's efforts in fulfilling the orders.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Today, EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) adopted recommendations to present to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan on the agency’s implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Travis Crane, age 30, of Kennett, Missouri, was sentenced to serve 210 months in federal prison for the offense of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Crane appeared for his sentencing hearing today before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
Chemical and Materials Sciences to Advance Clean Energy Technologies and Low-Carbon Manufacturing grant opened on Feb. 16.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Today, President Biden and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce that as a direct result of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, EPA will make significant progress in the clean-up and restoration of the Great Lakes’ most environmentally degraded sites, securing clean water and a better environment for millions of Americans in the Great Lakes region.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Cliffs Burns Harbor (Cleveland-Cliffs) has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and other laws, for an August 2019 discharge of ammonia and cyanide-laden wastewater into the East Branch of the Little Calumet River.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Georgia man convicted for his role in a scheme in which Providence area homeless and transient individuals were recruited to cash hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit business checks in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine, in exchange for cash payments, was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with the GB Group, Inc., for failing to comply with regulations that protect the public from exposure to lead while residential remodeling is being performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Leonard C Boyle, Inspector in Charge Ketty Larco-Ward of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Division, and J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found three men guilty of offenses related to their participation in lottery and romance scams that defrauded primarily elderly victims across the country of millions of dollars.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Biden’s Economy Takes the Romance out of Valentine’s Day.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: PECOS, Texas - On Tuesday, a Mexican national was sentenced to 60 months in prison for unlawfully re-entering the United States after previously being removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
Release: LOS ANGELES - With the eyes of the country - and the world - on Los Angeles for Super Bowl LVI this past Sunday, the gaze shifted Monday to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for the traditional “get away" day and a surge in the number of departing travelers.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman spoke today with Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Morgan to follow up on previous conversations on Russia’s escalating aggression against Ukraine. The Deputy Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister discussed ...
