News from January 2023
By DOL Newswire Report | Jan 16, 2023
A southern California senior care facility with a history of labor violations has been ordered by a federal court to pay $690,696 to 108 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor recently discovered that the Garden Grove-based company failed to pay workers all of their earned salaries.
By Tamara Browning | Jan 16, 2023
Ranger-guided snowshoe walks at Crater Lake National Park in Crater Lake, Ore., are underway for the winter season even as the U.S. Department of the Interior has listed the park among 20 public lands people can explore this winter.
By EPA Newswire Report | Jan 16, 2023
Thanks to what is the largest recycling investment in three decades, $40 million in federal funds through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will be used for recycling infrastructure projects for Tribes and Intertribal coalitions.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) offered the following statement after Kevin McCarthy was elected to serve as Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Muir Woods. Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, US. Date of Birth: 29 March, 1864. Place of Death: Kentfield, California, US. Date of Death: March 13, 1928. Place of Burial: Oakland, California. “When we save nature we save up an un-diminishing hoard of peace and joy for millions...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: In February 2022, Gateway National Recreation Area completed a hazard fuels reduction project in Queens, NY. The project, around a large, densely populated neighborhood near Jamaica Bay, involved mechanical treatment to establish both a fuel break and defensible space that would provide an anchor should...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: The Shenandoah Valley was a natural "avenue of advance" for Gen. Robert E. Lee's 1863 invasion of the Northern states, and the Battle of Gettysburg.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 45°48'16.53"N 116°41'12.15"W. Significance: Traditional river crossing site for the Nez Perce. Following the 1863 Treaty, the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon was left outside the reservation. This area was homeland to Chief Joseph's band of Nez Perce. Chief Joseph's band was...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Wall Street Journal Op Ed today on Big Tech...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Biden administration further extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a potential link between the Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine and strokes in adults over 65 years of age...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement after the Biden administration further extended the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Author: Douglas D. Scott. Adjunct Research Faculty. Applied Anthropology and Geography Program. Colorado Mesa University. Grant P17AP00228. This report was developed under a grant from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, a unit of the National Park Service. Its contents are solely...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today issued the following statement after the House Republican Steering Committee selected nine new members to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) joined Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Oh.) on “Hannity" with host Sean Hannity on Fox News to discuss his efforts to investigate President Biden and the Biden family’s...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Arizona Department of Parks. Principal Investigator: Dr. Sophia Kelly. Study and Report Completed by: Daniel Rucker. With assistance from: Brittany Clark. Grant Number: P14AP00139. December 31st, 2015. Introduction: This project addresses the emerging challenges that climate change presents for the...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: African Americans lived, worked, built, and died in the Valley. Stories centered in what is today Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park spread across the Valley encompassing the lives of many.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Member James Comer (R-Ky.), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) introduced the (H.R. 140). This bill prohibits Biden Administration officials and federal bureaucrats from using their authority or influence to promote censorship of speech or pressure social media companies to censor speech.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: With the declaration that the American West was “closed" in the 1890s, the Buffalo Soldiers’ duties changed. While they remained at their frontier posts, their focus shifted to quelling labor disputes and maintaining social order among citizens.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: New York, NY. Significance: Popular arena; the site of major political, sporting, and arts events in NYC 1925-1968. Madison Square Garden (1925-1968), also known as MSG III, was an arena in New York City that operated from 1925 until 1968. The third venue to go by that name, it was...
