News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Back by popular demand! Join Mark Peyton of Valles Caldera National Preserve and Sarah Milligan of Bandelier National Monument on Monday, Feb 28, 2022, from 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
John Muir National Historic Site is seeking applicants for the 2022 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) summer program to work and learn alongside National Park Service (NPS) rangers.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS), Big Bend National Park and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) El Paso Field Office, Alpine Resident Agency Office, is seeking information from the public about a missing Fort Stockton man and child who were last seen on January 28, 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS) has released an Environmental Assessment (EA) that analyzes a county and state led effort to reconstruct and repave the 1.8-mile section of Cave Mountain Road (Newton County Road 9560) that crosses Buffalo National River’s park boundaries
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Park rangers from Congaree National Park, along with staff from Kings Mountain National Military Park, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park and the SC Forestry Commission, will be conducting a prescribed burn during the last two weeks of February and first week of March, weather and conditions permitting.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management will host a wild horse and burro placement event Feb. 25-26, 2022, offering approximately 70 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at Okeechobee County AGRI-Civic Center in Okeechobee, Florida.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The Black Rock Field Office has initiated a 60-day pre-scoping period for public input on the Mountain View gold and silver exploration project proposed by Millennial Silver Nevada, Inc. Public input will be used in the development of an environmental analysis.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
With an unprecedented $3.5 billion to invest in increasing energy efficiency and safety in more than half a million low-income households across the nation, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) is poised to help many Americans save money on their energy bills.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Terrence Mosley is one of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s leaders in ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion are woven into EERE activities, programs, and engagement.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2022 Solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due 5:00pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 4, 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
In nature, DNA contains the instructions for the cells that allow life to grow, thrive, and reproduce.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03) delivered the following remarks at Speaker Pelosi’s press conference on H.R.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Nuclear physicists explore different nuclei to learn how protons and neutrons behave. For instance, they have found that nuclei made of just a few protons and neutrons typically contain close to an equal number of each.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a “bridge” rule to extend emergency flexibilities for school meal nutrition standards by two years.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, the House Committee on Education and Labor unveiled a new Multiemployer Pension Rescue Tracker to highlight the hard-earned pensions saved and businesses protected under Congressional Democrats’ and President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) today marked one year since becoming Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. Ranking Member Capito and Chairman Carper reflected on a year of accomplishments at the helm of EPW.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to initiate an assessment of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) preparedness to review and approve advanced nuclear reactor applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal jury last week convicted the last defendant in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Multnomah County, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for transporting an adult victim from California to Oregon and selling access to her for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - The former La Joya Independent School District (LJISD) assistant superintendent of Student Services has admitted to taking $28,000 in bribes, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
