News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $1 million in humanitarian assistance to support people affected by Super Typhoon Rai in the Philippines.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
One year ago, Burma’s military launched a coup d’état that derailed Burma’s long struggle for peace, democracy, and freedom and closed the door on its recent democratic opening.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain video processing devices, components thereof, and digital smart televisions containing the same II.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of pentafluoroethane (R-125) from China that the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has determined are sold in the United States at less than fair value and subsidized by the government of China.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
Following Qatar Airways and Boeing’s announcement of the largest deal for freighter aircraft in Boeing’s history, lawmakers, labor unions, and business groups applauded the announcement as just the most recent win in the Biden administration’s work to revitalize American manufacturing.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to reaffirm the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), thereby rejecting the previous administration’s reckless rollback of limits to mercury, acid gases, and other toxic air pollutants from power plants.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing to examine bipartisan recycling and composting draft legislation.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
Tuskegee, AlabamaADMINISTRATOR SAMANTHA POWER: Good morning, everybody! And hello to everybody on the livestream, good to have you.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
What’s the news? Western Massachusetts first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet(link is external) network expansion currently underway by AT&T(link is external).
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
Today, Vice President Harris announced new USAID initiatives to help the people of Honduras fight COVID-19 and find hope and opportunity in their home communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
On Monday, January 31, Administrator Samantha Power will travel to Tuskegee, Alabama to announce a new partnership between the U.S.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
What’s the news? Holliston’s first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet(link is external) network expansion currently underway by AT&T(link is external).
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
The United States fosters a robust and enduring security partnership with the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
The U.S. Department of State has concluded an administrative settlement with Torrey Pines Logic, Inc. (TPL) of San Diego, California and Dr. Leonid B. Volfson, to resolve alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), 22 U.S.C. § 2751 et seq., and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. Parts 120-130.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
According to a new report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, the majority (70.1%) of the nation’s children under age 18 lived with two parents, 21.4% lived with their mother, 4.4% with their father, and 4.0% did not live with a parent in 2019.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
What’s the news? Western Massachusetts first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet(link is external) network expansion currently underway by AT&T(link is external). We’ve added new, purpose-built cell site(link is external)s located in Warwick and South Egremont.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
This is the latest in a blog series highlighting the associations of the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet Authority’s) Public Safety Advisory Committee (PSAC).
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
During the last two years, the use of broadband in the United States has continued to increase.
By Press release submission | Feb 5, 2022
U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today marked one year since becoming Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Capito reflected on a year of accomplishments at the helm of EPW.
