News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
In Missouri, OSHA Area Office Directors Karena Lorek in Kansas City and William McDonald in St. Louis signed an alliance renewal on Dec. 29, 2022, with Missouri Association of Manufacturers Executive Director Michael Eaton to improve workplace safety in the industry. Their action renews an alliance first signed in October 2020.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Four months after citing a Quincy roofing and construction contractor – with a long history of exposing its employees to dangerous fall hazards and who reneged on a 2017 federal settlement agreement – inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration discovered the employer again knowingly exposing workers to serious injuries or worse.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an inspection at the U.S. Postal Service's Chesapeake facility on Aug. 30, 2022, responding to an allegation that the employer did not provide potable water to the facility or an operating bathroom
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
As frigid temperatures and sleet, ice and snow blanket states from the south to the northeast, millions of Americans are facing power outages.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Federal investigators have determined that the employer of a 25-year-old welder – who suffered fatal injuries in an explosion at a Flora work site in July 2022 – could have prevented the tragedy by following federal workplace safety standards.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
In a disturbing trend seen by federal workplace safety inspectors, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again found one of the nation's largest retail discount chains allowing blocked exit routes and boxes to be stacked unsafely.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
A federal workplace safety investigation at a Lone Jack cattle processing plant – now cited seven times by inspectors for endangering workers since March 2020 – found employees exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
Employees working for the same local contractor at two different Sioux Falls locations avoided tragedy after facing potentially deadly electrocution and trench cave-in hazards.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2023
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement about the December 2022 and January 2023 sentencings of six trade union leaders in Belarus:
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park. Amenities. 1 listed. Trailhead. Reaching this trail requires a permit to drive the 4WD White Rim Road. Fort Bottom Ruin is an ancient stone structure overlooking the Green River, built by Indigenous inhabitants of the Canyonlands area...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were 37 notices published by the Interior Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were eight notices published by the Agriculture Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were 11 notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
Release: The Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources Assistant Secretary Geoffrey R. Pyatt will travel to Mumbai, Pune, and New Delhi February 13-17. In the context of our strategic cooperation and India’s G-20 Presidency, the Assistant Secretary will further cooperation on the clean energy transition...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were 49 notices published by the Transportation Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy announced $25.5 million in funding to enable the sustainable use of domestic biomass and waste resources, such as agricultural residues and algae, to produce low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. This funding will advance the Biden-Harris administration goals of delivering an equitable, clean energy future, and put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were two notices published by the Federal Reserve System in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were 39 notices published by the Energy Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
There were 11 notices published by the Labor Department in week ending Feb. 4, according to the Federal Register.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2023
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Disaster Recovery Center is open at Ventura County Fairgrounds, where residents who were affected by the severe storms and flooding can update your FEMA applications and learn about state and community programs and other available assistance.
