News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii February 7-13 to engage with Indo-Pacific allies and partners to advance peace, resilience, and prosperity across the region and demonstrate that these partnerships deliver.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.)
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
In a GOP Leadership press conference today, E&C Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Congressman Buddy Carter (R-GA) delivered remarks about stopping the scourge of fentanyl and the HALT Fentanyl Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Today, Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks in the Health Subcommittee Hearing on biomedical research.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2020 County Business Patterns (CBP) First Look data table.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new report that examines older householders’ sources of income, the amounts of this income, and how much each source of income contributes to total income.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
On March 17, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the standard, full suite of 2016–2020 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data products—down to the block group level.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Homer L. Wilkes by unanimous consent to serve as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomed Secretary Vilsack's announcement on Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Even as organic products have become more widely available, most organic growers in the United States still participate in niche markets.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today at Lincoln University that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is delivering on its promise to expand markets by investing $1 billion in partnerships to support America’s climate-smart farmers, ranchers and forest landowners.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
Family forests provide many valuable goods and services that extend beyond their boundaries, including clean air and water, wildlife habitat, and carbon sequestration.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $2.3 million to North Carolina as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $1.9 million to New York as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the nursery production system.
By Press release submission | Feb 11, 2022
USDA has extended the deadline to enroll in Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) and Supplemental Dairy Margin Coverage (SDMC) for program year 2022.
By David Hutton | Feb 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has released its latest Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 11, 2022
As the Los Angeles Rams face the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl, the U.S. Department of Agriculture highlights the importance of preventing foodborne illnesses.
By David Hutton | Feb 11, 2022
Officials from the United States held a virtual meeting this week to discuss the opportunity to increase trade and investment between the U.S. and Brazil.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 11, 2022
Last week, John Thomas Poitra, a 32-year-old Belcourt, North Dakota, man, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for a carjacking incident he had carried out in Fargo, North Dakota, on March 17, 2020.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 11, 2022
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo spoke at the National Governors Association's 2022 Winter Meeting recently, delivering remarks on digital literacy and broadband access.
