News from January 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: A PDF copy is available. OVERVIEW. Budget certainty is essential to the entire federal government, especially for our national security. Last year, House and Senate Democrats advanced legislation to fund the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2022 - with increases over last year’s funding. On November...

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Philadelphia: the cradle of American Independence, home of Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
NOAA’s partners at The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay recently completed a project to restore habitat and improve fish passage on Kids Creek in Traverse City, Michigan.

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page proposed rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Lisa Garcia, Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA"), announced today that the United States has filed a civil lawsuit against CISNE NY Construction, Inc., CISNE JE Construction...

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The survey successfully sampled all 45 stations this fall with tub-trawl bottom longline gear in the southern Gulf of Maine.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The year 2021 was marked by extremes across the U.S., including exceptional warmth, devastating severe weather and the second-highest number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters on record.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon. Foreign Minister Baerbock, we had a terrific first meeting in Liverpool and it’s really a pleasure to welcome you to Washington, to the United States for the first time in your new role as foreign minister.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, joined by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, will meet virtually with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo on January 6, for the 2022 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee (“2+2”) Meeting.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) signed an interagency memorandum in support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious offshore wind energy goals to advance wind energy responsibly while protecting biodiversity and promoting cooperative ocean use.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
On behalf of the United States of America, I extend my support for the people of Burma as they celebrate their Independence Day on January 4.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo welcomed President Biden’s nominees to serve as Assistant Secretaries of Commerce at the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Thea D. Rozman Kendler and Matthew S. Axelrod, following their unanimous confirmations by the United States Senate.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The United States commends the strong actions taken by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in defense of democracy and stability in Mali following its Extraordinary Summit on January 9, 2022.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Today, Secretary Gina Raimondo held a virtual introductory meeting with the Minster of Trade of Turkey, Mehmet Muş.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The Quad (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America) welcome the announcement that the UN Interim Transition Assistance Mission to Sudan is facilitating discussions to resolve Sudan’s political crisis.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
Two hundred years ago today, a group of free Black men, women, and children from the United States established a settlement on Providence Island in what would become the city of Monrovia and, in 1847, the Republic of Liberia.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
I look forward to welcoming Ambassador David Satterfield in the coming days as the U.S.

By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The Troika (Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and the European Union underscore their continued support for the democratic aspirations of the Sudanese people.