News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the energy consumption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation today released its Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on airline operational data compiled for the month of November 2021 for on-time performance, mishandled baggage, mishandled wheelchairs and scooters, complaints received, and oversales.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognizes the Food Rescue Partnership (FRP) in the Quad Cities, as one of 18 businesses and organizations honored nationally for notable achievements and innovations in EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge in 2020 and 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
2022 Port Performance Freight Statistics Program: Supply-Chain Feature, a congressionally-mandated report on capacity and throughput at the top U.S. maritime ports, is now available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is recognizing Sodexo Inc. of Gaithersburg, Maryland, as an awardee in the Regional Endorser category of its Food Recovery Challenge (FRC).
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
This month, NNSA held its first-ever virtual ceremony to recognize the recipients.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
These projects are receiving a total of $6.5 million in grants from the Border Environment Infrastructure Fund (BEIF), which is funded by EPA and administered by NADBank.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) finalized an agreement that will allow the two countries to share each other’s evaluation and acceptance of flight simulators.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) prohibiting Boeing 747-8, 747-8F and 777 airplanes from landing at airports where 5G interference could occur.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is taking an important step in protecting people who live near the LCP Chemicals, Inc.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The agency is proposing this action because the 2016 ethylene oxide Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment remains the best available science.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
President Biden and the U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 announces an upcoming virtual public listening session on the Draft Strategy to Reduce Lead Exposures and Disparities in U.S. Communities (Lead Strategy), so communities and stakeholders can provide their comments on the Agency’s plan.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) announcing the availability of up to $17.8 million over five years to re-establish seven Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) Centers across the country.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has seized “USdolbids.com” which purported to be the official website for the United States Department of Labor.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
A New York Man was arrested today on charges arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain business loans and unemployment pandemic relief funds made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.Ronald Buie, 35, was charged with one count of wire fraud.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
Twenty alleged drug dealers and their associates have been arrested and charged in “Operation Shut Down Corner,” announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By Press release submission | Jan 27, 2022
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York has entered a consent judgment ordering a Brooklyn bus and shuttle service to pay $742,500 in back wages and liquidated damages for overtime wages denied to 368 shuttle drivers, following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
