News from January 2023
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The Department of Labor Veterans’ Employment and Training Service is committed to enabling all veterans, transitioning service members and military spouses to reach their full potential in the workplace.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
An administrative law judge with the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration citations and $24,290 in penalties issued to Eustis Cable Enterprises Ltd., a Brookfield, Vermont, telecommunications contractor, following the death of an employee at an Andover, New York, worksite.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
Unemployment rates were lower in November than a year earlier in 235 of the 389 metropolitan areas, higher in 133 areas, and unchanged in 21 areas, the U.S. Bureau ofLabor Statistics reported today.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $3 million cooperative agreement project to Impactt Limited to increase the capacity of field workers and their families to advocate and organize for the improvement of working and living conditions in the Dominican Republic sugar industry.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The “vocational education” of years ago has evolved from wood shop and home economics into a powerful educational reform tool. Some 8.3 million high school students participated in what are now called career and technology education, or CTE, pathways in 2020-2021, up from 7.5 million the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
Madam Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 2617, an omnibus appropriations package to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member David Rouzer (R-NC) today criticized the Administration for moving forward with their rulemaking process, in the face of a pending Supreme Court ruling, and reinstate strict and cumbersome regulations over waters and water use decisions throughout the United States.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the following statement regarding Southwest Airlines’ cancellation of thousands of flights:
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule defining the “waters of the United States” (WOTUS):
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a new rule repealing the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), and changing the definition of Waters of the United States in a way that will expand federal regulatory authority.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that its Build America Bureau (Bureau) has provided a $27.5 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan for a portion of the $649 million Double Track Project along a 26.6-mile segment of the South Shore Line between Gary and Michigan City, Indiana.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
U.S. Department of Transportation announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded $273.9 million from the new Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program (Rural) to help communities around the United States complete transportation projects that will increase connectivity, improve safety and reliability, support regional economic growth, and improve the quality of life for people living in rural areas.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $1.5 billion in grant funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program for 2023.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that its Build America Bureau has provided two low-interest loans totaling $97.6 million to the Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board (CBT), the governing body of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), for improvements to Interstate 81.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 201 W Riverside Dr, Clarksville, IN 47129. Significance: At the Falls of the Ohio, where William Clark’s family had settled on the north and south sides of the river, Meriwether Lewis and his initial crew met up with Clark and York, the man that Clark enslaved. They recruited more...
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
The National Transportation Safety Board published Tuesday the comments it provided to the Ethiopian government on their draft accident investigation report into the 2019 crash in Ethiopia of a Boeing 737 Max airplane.
By Press release submission | Jan 3, 2023
In relation to its final rulemaking entitled “Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas Transmission Pipelines: Repair Criteria, Integrity Management Improvements, Cathodic Protection, Management of Change, and Other Related Amendments
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2023
N. AF Border Management Academy grant opened on Jan. 3.
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2023
Countering Malign Exploitation Indonesia's Critical Dual-use grant opened on Jan. 3.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2023
News Release: High Potential Historic Sites are defined in the National Trails System Act, as: “…those historic sites related to the route, or sites in close proximity thereto, which provide opportunity to interpret the historic significance of the trail during the period of its major use.".
