News from July 2022

By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: International Falls, MN: Discover your park after dark at the Voyageurs Star Party, a stellar three-day astronomy festival. The National Park Service and Voyageurs Conservancy are celebrating the natural wonder and cultural heritage of Voyageurs National Park's night skies with our second annual summer...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on July 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Historic investments through the new All Stations Accessibility Program will improve accessibility at transit stations

By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: VALE, Ore. - Despite a late, wet spring, the risk of wildfire is increasing rapidly across eastern Oregon as hot and dry conditions continue.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
BLM IIJA Bureau of Land Management (AK) Wildlife Resource Management grant opened on July 27.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on July 28.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo will co-host the inaugural ministerial meeting of the U.S.-Japan Economic Policy Consultative Committee (EPCC, or the Economic “2+2") with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry...

By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers responded to an emergency in Elkmont Campground at approximately 12:30 a.m. on July 27, 2022, after a tree fell on a tent and resulted in the death of a seven-year-old girl from Georgia. The other family members, including father and two siblings, were not injured. The large tree, a red maple, was approximately two feet in diameter. No additional details are available at this time.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: ORLANDO - On July 25, 2022, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas participated in a roundtable meeting with senior executives, directors, and security officials from entertainment venues, sports teams and leagues, colleges and universities, local chambers of commerce, law enforcement...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Five First-class (1/c) cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) recently completed a 4-week cybersecurity research and development internship at the Idaho National Laboratory sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Five First-class (1/c) cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) recently completed a 4-week cybersecurity research and development internship at the Idaho National Laboratory sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bipartisan bill to enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s ability combat human trafficking. The legislation would make...

By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: Northfield, MN - Today, the House Agriculture Committee held the fourth in a series of listening sessions entitled “A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Perspectives from the Field" at Far-Gaze Farms in Northfield, Minnesota.

By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a five page proposed rule on July 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the city of Henderson, Kentucky, for construction of a high-pressure natural gas line needed to support manufacturing growth. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan and EDA’s $300 million Coal Communities Commitment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
There are seven releases scheduled to be published on July 28.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today named Doug Vilsack, the current Assistant Director for Parks, Wildlife and Lands for Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR), as the new State Director for BLM Colorado. Vilsack will begin work on August 14th, 2022.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Watermark Auto Group Foundation, Marion, Illinois, to renovate the historic Citadel building to house the Entrepreneurial and Technical Opportunities (EThOs) business incubator.

By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho, July 26, 2022 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today launched a new $1 billion Community Wildfire Defense Grant program. This new, five-year, competitive program funded by President Biden’s historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is designed to assist at-risk communities, including Tribal communities, non-profit organizations, state forestry agencies and Alaska Native corporations with planning for and mitigating wildfire risks.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on July 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.