News from January 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: In efforts to limit the spread of disease while preserving privacy, an interdisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has designed and tested low-cost devices and methods that can detect when people or animals come into close contact with each other.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 8 years’ imprisonment and 10 years’ supervised release on his conviction of Receipt and Attempted Receipt of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Japan on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
The United States has designated eight DPRK-linked individuals and entities under Executive Order 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and WMD delivery systems.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is requesting nominations to fill one vacant employee representative position on the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health. The 15-member group advises the Secretary of Labor and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health on developing standards and policies affecting the construction industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today that Jaquari Trotter of Grand Rapids, Michigan pled guilty to shooting at a member of the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force. Gregory Rogers, who drove the getaway car following the shooting, previously pled guilty to aiding and abetting the assault.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: The National Park Service has approved an entrance fee for Indiana Dunes National Park beginning on March 31, 2022. The new fee revenue will help fund the Marquette Greenway Bike Trail, parking and transportation improvements and visitor services for a park that has seen its attendance increase from...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Teton Interagency Dispatch Center received a call at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 22, about an injured skier involved in an avalanche in the Sliver Couloir on Nez Perce in Grand Teton National Park. Park rangers and Teton County Search and Rescue jointly responded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Crystal Farmer, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TRAVIS M. WILLIAMS, 34, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 23 years of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for photographing and video recording his repeated sexual abuse of a child.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that youth leaders across the nation can now apply to become a part of the 2022 Youth Preparedness Council (YPC). YPC members are students in grades 8 through 11 who are selected to support disaster preparedness and make a difference...
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
To ensure that federal employees have a broader set of modern options for accessing facilities and electronic resources, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has increased the number of acceptable types of credentials that federal agencies can permit as official digital identity.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
In efforts to limit the spread of disease while preserving privacy, an interdisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has designed and tested low-cost devices and methods that can detect when people or animals come into close contact with each other.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Scientists track and monitor the circulation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using methods based on a laboratory technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
NOAA Fisheries has denied a request for emergency action to eliminate Chinook salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery and implement a hard cap on chum salmon bycatch.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program has completed its multi-year highly collaborative effort, known as the Southeast Deep Coral Initiative. Initiative collaborators explored and characterized deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems in the federal waters of the U.S. South Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and U.S. Caribbean.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Market squid have multiplied off the West Coast over the last two decades.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
A NOAA-led team of marine mammal responders is continuing to track an entangled adult humpback whale first spotted off Po‘ipū, Kauaʻi on January 16, 2022.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Steelhead returns to the Snake River and Chinook and chum salmon runs on the Yukon-Kuskokwim River in Alaska in 2021 were among the lowest on record.
By Press release submission | Jan 24, 2022
Alright, stop the presses, folks. What is a 5-year review? What’s a distinct population segment? How and why are the beloved Southern Resident killer whales (SRKWs) still in danger of becoming extinct? Let’s break this down.
