News from February 2023
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced two Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loans totaling $115 million to Santa Clara Valley Water District in Santa Clara County, California, to improve resiliency of their water infrastructure including preparing ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced up to $10 million in funding to develop new technologies and tools to reduce the environmental impact of aviation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: DALLAS - Soon after federal workplace safety inspectors arrived at a Dollar Tree store in Mount Pleasant, Texas, they found the national discount retailer again shortchanging employee safety - continuing a pattern of disregard dating back to 2017 - by allowing storeroom merchandise to block exits and walkways and stacking boxes high enough to fall on workers.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office approved the application submitted by InterConnect Towers, LLC to construct and operate a wireless broadband communication facility along State Route 163. The multi-user communication facility will improve and expand coverage and strengthen...
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
Release: I extend my warmest wishes to all those celebrating Losar, the Tibetan New Year. On this first day of the Year of the Water Hare, we celebrate the perseverance, compassion, and strength of Tibetans across the globe, including the over 26,000 members of the Tibetan diaspora in the United States. The United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Marcus C. Beatty, 55, of Columbus, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison and repay $486,408.55 in unclaimed funds he stole from the State of Ohio, who was holding the funds in trust for the rightful owners.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Three individuals from northern Minnesota have been charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought fentanyl and methamphetamine to the Red Lake Reservation and surrounding area, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: To recognize the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, three New England parks hosted the symposium “Victory at Last? Parades and Pink Slips." Speakers from Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, the National Parks of Boston, and Lowell National Historical Park explored the years leading...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Homefront worker at Charlestown Navy Yard, Advocate, Photographer. Place of Birth: Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Date of Birth: March 2, 1923. Place of Death: Boston Massachusetts. Date of Death: Nov. 2, 2021. On March 9, 1923, the headline on the first page of the Portsmouth Herald...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
Increasing Utilization and Reliability of Electric Infrastructure with Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) grant opened on Feb. 24.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: This is stop number two on the Martineztown Walking Tour.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO), and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Mike Crapo (R-ID) are requesting detailed information from top government health officials regarding the $3 billion drug price-setting implementation fund included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Kenneth Desaun Hayway, 38, and Hannah Elizabeth Barbee, 30, both of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
Release: (As Prepared). Thank you to our host His Excellency Minister Al Sayegh and to my distinguished counterparts from India, Secretary Ravi, and from Israel, Political Director Bin Noun. It’s a pleasure to be here in Abu Dhabi where government officials and business leaders have come together to assess the...
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022:
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: Defendant Engaged in Multiple Physical Confrontations with Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty today to orchestrating an investment fraud scheme that defrauded more than 10,000 victims of over $55 million.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: The scientific workers were constantly reminded to leave “shop talk there." They were told they could be sent to prison, to Alcatraz, if they talked about their work with uncleared persons. There were many signs on the walls, and a red-and-black flag flew outside upon security infractions, to remind employees to keep quiet. They took the signs, poems, and pictures seriously, knowing their work was in the interest of national security.
