News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2023
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the Department of Energy’s implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2023
U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) implementation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the bipartisan infrastructure law (BIF). U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, discussed the substantial funding and new responsibilities provided to the DOE in the IIJA, and built upon with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), to strengthen America’s energy security, increase domestic energy production and reduce our reliance on foreign supply chains.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: A mile east of Saddlehorn Visitor Center. Amenities. 3 listed. Parking - Auto, Scenic View/Photo Spot, Trailhead. * Location: From Saddlehorn Visitor Center, turn left onto Rim Rock Drive and proceed 1.0 mile (1.6 km) to the trailhead on the left. * Mileage: 0.5 one way (0.8 km). *...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: HONOLULU - A Honolulu preschool has learned an expensive lesson about willfully failing to pay required overtime wages as the law requires, after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2023
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Angus King (I-ME), Jim Risch (R-ID), Shelley Capito (R-WV), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm calling on the Biden Administration to follow guidelines in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) to invest in a broad variety of energy storage technologies.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2023
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Mike Braun (R-IN), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Mitt Romney (R-UT), wrote a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging the Secretary to reconsider adding copper as an official U.S. Geological Survey Critical Mineral. Recognizing copper — a mineral vital to our energy and national security — as a critical mineral would signal the need for the U.S. to increase investment in domestic production and ensure a secure and reliable supply of copper resources.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2023
U.S. House of Representatives passed the first two House Committee on Natural Resources bills of the 118th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Four Oklahoma men were indicted by a federal grand jury today after law enforcement officers seized more than $1 million worth of cocaine from a rental truck that was stopped on Interstate 70 in Lafayette County, Mo.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) applauded U.S. Congressman Andy Barr’s (R-KY) reintroduction of a Congressional Review Act measure to nullify the Department of Labor’s (DOL) recent rule to greenlight environmental, social, governance (ESG) investing in employer-sponsored retirement plans. U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) is leading the companion measure in the U.S. Senate.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will hold its first hearing, titled “American Education in Crisis," which will discuss the state of K-12 and postsecondary education.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: International Law Enforcement Agencies Issue Joint Warning about Global Financial Sextortion Crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
F23AS00228 FY 2023 Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund CESCF Traditional Conservation Grants Program Region 1 grant opened on Feb. 8.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
Release: Employer:. U.S. Postal Service. 1103 Godwin Ave. Chesapeake, Virginia 23324. Citations Issued: One serious violation and one repeat violation. Investigative Findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an inspection at the U.S. Postal Service’s Chesapeake ...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced the following subcommittee rosters for the 118th Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who attempted to rob an Independence, Mo., restaurant with a fake gun, but was thwarted when employees fought back, was sentenced in federal court today for the robbery.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has released the following statement ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union speech tonight.
