News from June 2022

By Press release submission | Jun 28, 2022
USDA Issues a Default Decision Against Joe John Garcia, dba Isleta Feed Livestock for Alleged Violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act

By Press release submission | Jun 28, 2022
EPA to Highlight Major Grant Funding to Address Contaminated Sites in Niagara County

By Press release submission | Jun 28, 2022
House Agriculture Committee Holds Farm Bill Listening Session in Arizona

By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: KANAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management will host a virtual public meeting of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Advisory Committee (Committee) on Tuesday, July 12, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
FY 2022 Citizenship and Integration Grant Program: Community and Regional Integration Network Grant (CARING) grant opened on June 27.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, June 27, 2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the kickoff of the 13th annual Feds Feed Families program, a voluntary food drive which encourages employees from all federal agencies to give in-kind contributions food, services, and time to food banks and pantries of their choice.

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 10 grant opened on June 27.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
OVC FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustment to Previously Funded FY2019 VOCA Victim Compensation grant opened on June 27.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has released the “Plant Gathering for Traditional Purposes" Environmental Assessment (EA) for Indiana Dunes National Park. The purpose of this EA is to evaluate the potential impacts of entering into an agreement with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians to allow traditional...

By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: The United States stands with our partners in condemnation of the repeated rocket and mortar attacks directed at the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, including three attacks in Sulaimaniya in the last four days on oil and gas infrastructure. These attacks are designed to undermine economic stability just as they ...

By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP)-Region 9 grant opened on June 27.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: RENO, Nevada - As Nevadans celebrate America’s independence and head to the outdoors for the holiday weekend please remember to be fire safe. Leave the fireworks at home. Fireworks are prohibited on BLM managed-public lands.

By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
Cochran Fellowship Program - U.S. Dry Beans Processing, Promotion, and Marketing for Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras grant opened on June 27.

By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: US Department of Labor signs partnership to promote construction safety

By Trina Thomas | Jun 27, 2022
On May 17, Independent Home Care of Michigan, LLC, and owners Mary Clark and Kathryn Flick were found liable to pay 23 home health care workers after a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division investigation determined the company was in violation of overtime wages.

By T.H. Lawrence | Jun 27, 2022
Heritage Foundation, National Association of Scholars hold discussion on continuing Chinese propaganda and influence efforts
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 28,599,634 visitors to national parks in the District of Columbia spent $600,600,000 in 2021. That spending resulted in 5,293 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the District’s economy of $679,400,000.

By Karen Kidd | Jun 27, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released its initial crash data on automated, driverless vehicles, which is aimed at improving roadway safety and encouraging innovation, NHTSA's administrator said.

By Trina Thomas | Jun 27, 2022
On June 15, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced 20 Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Hispanic-Serving School Districts faculty and staff members as new E. Kika De La Garza Fellows.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2022
News Release: The Volunteers-In-Parks Program is now recruiting for the 2022 September Cohort of the Community Volunteer Ambassador program!.