News published on Federal Newswire in July 2022

News from July 2022


Pallone & Schakowsky Applaud House Passage of Consumer Protection Bills

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three consumer protection and commerce bills...


NOAA tool now brings disaster risk, vulnerability down to community level

News Release: A comprehensive update to NOAA’s Billion Dollar Disasters mapping tool now includes U.S. census tract data - providing many users with local community-level awareness of hazard risk, exposure and vulnerability across more than 100 combinations of weather and climate hazards.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: (MALTA, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management issued a final decision today for a bison grazing proposal involving seven allotments in Phillips County, Montana, held by American Prairie, which allows for bison grazing on six of the seven allotments.


U.S. Maritime Transportation System National Advisory Committee; Notice of Public Meeting discussed on July 27 by Transportation Department

The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: A federal court ordered a Tampa-area pain management clinic to close and directed the clinic’s owners and its former physician to collectively pay $600,000 in civil penalties pursuant to agreed resolutions in a case alleging violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Justice Department announced today.


Leader Rodgers’ Statement on CHIPS-Plus Passage in the Senate

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released a statement following the Senate’s advancement of the CHIPS-Plus government subsidy legislation, which falls short of lifting tax burdens and removing costly regulatory and permitting barriers that are hampering American industries and their ability to innovate and compete with China.


Wyden Demands Merck, Abbot Comply with Senate Finance Committee Investigation

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today demanded Merck and Abbott comply with the Senate Finance Committee’s investigation into the tax practices of Big Pharma.


APHIS to Allow Back-Catering on Commercial Aircraft

Release: Effective July 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is exercising its enforcement discretion to allow establishments to request approval to back-cater on foreign-origin commercial aircraft returning to a foreign country within 3 hours of arrival ...


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) are raising concerns over Democrats’ refusal to require Biden Administration officials to testify at hearings, emphasizing that no...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed three consumer protection and commerce bills...


Rodgers, Latta Commend Bipartisan Solutions to Improve Public Safety and Spectrum Innovation

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement commending the passing of bipartisan legislation to improve spectrum management, innovation, and emergency communications services for Americans.


Notice published by Interior Department on July 27

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DOE-NETL grant application closes on Aug. 31

Clean Hydrogen Production, Storage, Transport and Utilization to Enable a Net-Zero Carbon Economy grant opened on July 28.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today issued the following statement on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022...


There are three releases scheduled to be published on July 29.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.



DOI-USGS1 offers new grant application process starting July 28

Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Lakes Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on July 28.


Energy Department discusses Proposed Subsequent Arrangement on July 27

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on July 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.