News from February 2022
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
There were 24 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in January.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
Release: In response to the Russian Federation’s further invasion of Ukraine, the Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, “Implementation of Sanctions Against Russia Under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR),” which implements new Russia license requirements and licensing policies to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
There were 24 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in January.
By Bob Martin | Feb 26, 2022
The population of the Texas kangaroo rat is declining and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now working to create a 10-year Candidate Conservation Agreement wit Assurances (CCAA) with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department involving private landowners to address this concern in North-Central Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: Today, the U.S. Commerce Department, through its Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), responded to Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine by implementing a sweeping series of stringent export controls that will severely restrict Russia’s access to technologies and other items that it needs to sustain ...
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
Release: Ukraine is a sovereign, democratic, and peace-loving nation. The United States and Ukraine have been partners since Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union more than 30 years ago. After Russia invaded and partially occupied Ukraine in 2014, the United States intensified efforts to help...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint Cybersecurity Advisory today providing an overview of destructive malware that has been used to target organizations in Ukraine as well as guidance on how organizations...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor and other stakeholders are offering workers, employers, educators, safety and health professionals and others a unique, virtual opportunity to increase their knowledge of workplace safety and health issues during Pacific Coast Safety Fest, March 14-17, 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it has awarded 13 grants as part of the Broadband Infrastructure Program. These grants, totaling more than $277 million, will be used to connect more than 133,000 unserved households.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: LAUREL RUN, PA - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $221,307 in back wages and damages for 32 nursing staff employees of a Luzerne County treatment center found to be intentionally shortchanging workers of their overtime pay repeatedly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man accused of stealing firearms from a business after breaking in by using a construction excavator to tear down a section of wall and door admitted to a firearms crime today, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has awarded grants for over $450,000 to two entities in New Jersey that will foster their programs to help protect wetlands.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has awarded grants for over $450,000 to two entities in New Jersey that will foster their programs to help protect wetlands.
By Zachary Richter | Feb 25, 2022
University of Arkansas professor Simon Saw-Teong Ang has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about the existence of patents for his inventions in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
K. Lynn Berry, superintendent of Congaree National Park in South Carolina, will relocate in the spring and serve in the same position for four Oakland, California-area national parks.
By Art Benavidez | Feb 25, 2022
The Department of the Interior has been working to eliminate derogatory names from public lands and, on Feb. 22, announced the potential names that could serve as replacements.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that it is extending the period for public comment on a draft of its plan to address and reduce lead exposure in vulnerable communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) urging the agency to consider terminating the Old Post Office Building lease held by President Trump and the Trump Organization.
