News from February 2022
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service is announcing that western states federal grazing fees will be $1.35 per head month for 2022. The 2022 fee remains unchanged from 2021.

By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
EM and its liquid-waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have filled two tank farm structures with cementitious grout to complete a significant step toward the operational closure of the first high-activity liquid waste facilities at the Savannah River Site (SRS) since 2016.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
The US Energy Department published a three page proposed rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Emmanuel Roman-Figueroa, age 39, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on January 28, 2022, to 180 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Malachy E.

By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Crews in the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site are practicing moving “bubblers” in the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility to build their proficiency during the commissioning phase of the LAW.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement on actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect groundwater from coal ash contamination.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today on President Biden’s nomination of Dr. Kathryn Huff for Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...

By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: MODERATOR: Thank you operator, and I’d like to welcome everyone to this afternoon’s on-background briefing. I especially appreciate the fact that everyone’s joining us on fairly short notice today.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today applauded the news that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has launched the Bridge Replacement, Rehabilitation, Preservation, ...

By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: Dear Attorney General Garland: We write to you today at the beginning of Black History Month about the disturbing trend of bomb threats and violence against our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). For the last month, at least 17 of the nation’s 100 HBCUs have been forced to...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published an eight page rule on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: The United States is designating three Hizballah-linked financial facilitators and their Lebanon-based travel company. We are taking this action in solidarity with the Lebanese people, whose security and sovereignty remains threatened by Hizballah’s corrupt and destabilizing activities.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Release: DOE’s “Solar Power in Your Community” Provides Proven Strategies for Local Governments to Increase Equitable Access to Clean Power, Solar App+ Online Tool Cuts Solar Permit Time to Less than One Day

By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Starting next week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct the first-ever National Agroforestry Survey.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Deslouis Edouard, 28, formerly of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay approximately $515,000 restitution by United States District Court Jeffery L. Schmehl for his conviction of aggravated identity fraud and related charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, January 14th, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Albany, New York to amplify how the historic climate investments of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and President Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda will help lower energy costs, generate good-paying, union jobs and secure a safer and more reliable energy grid for New Yorkers and Americans across the country.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2022
News Release: PECOS, Texas - A Dallas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting noncitizens and assaulting a federal officer.