News from January 2022
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: MONTE VISTA, COLO - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) San Luis Valley Field Office and BLM Rocky Mountain District Fire are preparing to conduct a prescribed burn at Blanca Wetlands, approximately 11 miles northeast of Alamosa.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released a video calling on U.S. law enforcement officers on the frontlines of America’s ongoing fentanyl crisis to share their stories with the House Committees on Oversight and Reform and Energy and Commerce.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $3,599,571 in funding for nine small businesses to further develop and commercialize technologies to protect the environment and public health.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see you all and especially good to see my friend, the foreign minister, and welcome him back to Washington. We have, as usual, a lot to talk about. I always deeply value getting the perspectives of our friends from Jordan and indeed the foreign minister...
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking several actions to protect communities and hold facilities accountable for controlling and cleaning up the contamination created by decades of coal ash disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An East Providence man who played a critical role in an international money laundering conspiracy that moved nearly $1.8 million to Nigeria obtained through various scams perpetrated in the United States was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court decision blocking enforcement of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine or testing OSHA safety standard and upholding the CMS vaccine requirements for health care workers.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft “EJ Action Plan: Building Up Environmental Justice in EPA’s Land Protection and Cleanup Programs” highlighting projects, tools, and practices to be applied to the Agency’s Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: CINCINNATI - Fernando Arroyo-Alonso, 59, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to one year and one day in prison for stealing the identity of a disabled United States veteran.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will evaluate whether emissions from piston-engine aircraft operating on leaded fuel contribute to air pollution that endangers public health and welfare.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Descent procedures that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) put in place across the country in the 2021 will save millions of gallons of fuel and reduce CO2 and other emissions by hundreds of thousands of tons. The 42 new Optimized Profile Descents (OPDs) allow planes to glide down safely from cruising altitudes into airspace for some of the nation’s largest airports instead of the fuel-consuming stair-step procedure.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement following the issuance of the Government Accountability Office’s audit of the federal response to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange incidents...
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
January marks the beginning of National Radon Action Month, a time of year when EPA encourages everyone to test their home for radon.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it is requesting public comment on a wide range of policy and program considerations associated with new broadband grant programs authorized and funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL): the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, the Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and the State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes a historic investment of $65 billion to help close the digital divide and ensure that all Americans have access to reliable, affordable, high-speed broadband.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) prevented a Fredericksburg, Va., man from bringing a loaded handgun onto his flight this morning (Jan. 13).
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
NTIA hosted three listening sessions concerning Personal Data: Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Anibal Navarro, a former corrections officer at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, was sentenced in federal court today to 37 months in prison for smuggling methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana and cell phones into state prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Helena pawn shop owner who admitted to lying about gun sales and failing to keep proper records was sentenced today to four years of probation, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
EM has reduced its operational footprint at the F Area Complex by moving from around-the-clock operations to dayshifts, a measure of progress toward completing cleanup and closure of that portion of the Savannah River Site (SRS).
