News from February 2022
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that it has added four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to its Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 25, 2022
It's very often not the first national park to come to mind but a west Texas local attracted a record-breaking number of visitors last year, the National Park Service said Feb. 18.
By Zachary Richter | Feb 25, 2022
The RAISE program has been helping projects across the country that make local or regional impacts.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, held a hearing to examine Russia’s destabilizing activity in Eastern Europe, including its recent buildup of approximately 150,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) announced in late January that the Fiscal Year 2023 H-1B Cap Registration period will open on March 1.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that the comment period for the proposed changes of the Apple Crop Provision has been extended to April 15.
By John Suayan | Feb 25, 2022
The Biden-Harris administration late last month announced the allocation of at least $1.3 billion in disaster relief funds for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service’s post-wildfire and hurricane recovery support efforts.
By Zachary Richter | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. has designated World Human Care, an Indonesia-based organization that has provided financial support to Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), an Indonesia-based terrorist group.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. States Department of Agriculture recently announced that the import of potatoes from Canada to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico could resume.
By John Kelly | Feb 25, 2022
The USDA is beginning its Conservation Reserve Program sign-ups for 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Armed Services Committee Lead Republican Mike Rogers (R-AL), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Lead Republican Mike Turner (R-OH) have released the following statement ahead of President Biden’s remarks on Russian aggression against Ukraine.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and other House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans sent a letter to President Joe Biden condemning his rejection of the accounts of the servicemembers interviewed for the Department of Defense’s Abbey Gate investigation and after-action report on the Afghanistan withdrawal released via FOIA request this month.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) recently announced $7 million in grant funding to help strengthen the U.S. maple syrup industry.
By Press release submission | Feb 25, 2022
History will remember the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a tragedy and disgrace.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently announced the Final Strategic Framework that will advance surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging diseases.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 25, 2022
A governmental agency is encouraging health care employers and related industries to help make 2022 safer for workers, considering a report that nursing assistants had the highest number of missed workdays due to workplace injuries and illnesses.
By Trina Thomas | Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor recently recovered wages from a Florida restaurant after it failed to pay employees overtime wages they earned.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 25, 2022
Back wages of $120,321 for 36 workers were recovered from a West Columbia home healthcare provider that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found denied overtime pay to its employees.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Cayla Danielle Lindsay, 28, of Beckley, was sentenced today to five years and nine months in federal prison for using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
