News published on Federal Newswire in January 2023

News from January 2023


U.S. Department of Energy Awards $118 Million to Accelerate Domestic Biofuel Production

Release: 17 Projects Will Boost Production of Biofuels for Consumer and Freight Transportation in America, Support President Biden’s Decarbonization and Climate Agenda


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is investing $3.2 million in the state of North Carolina to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to support current and future business needs.


Facing manslaughter charges in worker’s 2021 trench collapse death,  Colorado contractor who willfully ignored federal law surrenders to police

News Release: BRECKENRIDGE, CO - The owner of a Vail construction company facing felony manslaughter charges has surrendered to local law enforcement after the Summit County Sheriff’s Office in Breckenridge, Colorado, issued an arrest warrant on Jan. 24, 2023, related to the findings of a federal safety investigation into a deadly trench collapse in November 2021.


News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released 5-year national and regional geographic mobility and migration estimates from the 2020 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).


Sanctioning Senior Paraguayan Officials for Corruption

News Release: The United States is sanctioning a former and a current senior Paraguayan official for their involvement in systemic corruption that has undermined democratic institutions in Paraguay. The Department of the Treasury is designating Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (Cartes), the former President of Paraguay, ...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) led debate on the House Floor today to promote H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act.


News Release: BOSTON (Jan. 26, 2023) – The City of Chicopee's Industrial Pretreatment Program staff, led by Laurie Goff, was honored for exceptional work inspecting, permitting, and sampling industrial users that discharge industrial waste into the collection system.


News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Richard D. Hines, Jr. (“Hines"), was arrested today in Knoxville, Tennessee by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") on federal criminal charges of bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.


Department of Labor announces enforcement guidance changes to save lives, target employers who put profit over safety

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued new enforcement guidance to make its penalties more effective in stopping employers from repeatedly exposing workers to life-threatening hazards or failing to comply with certain workplace safety and health requirements.


Oklahoma Added to Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the release of data for Oklahoma and adjusted college graduate earnings to 2020 dollars in the Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) experimental data product. PSEO now includes data on 680 institutions, which cover approximately 26% of all college graduates.



The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: BOSTON (Jan. 26, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) New England Office recently awarded four 2022 Regional Wastewater Treatment Awards to New Hampshire wastewater facilities and individuals to recognize them for their commitment to improving water quality.


Chairs Rodgers and Latta Announce First Communications and Technology Subcommittee Hearing of the 118th Congress

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and incoming Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced a hearing on ensuring America continues to lead in the burgeoning satellite communications industry.


Homeland Security Department discusses Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; National Fire Department Registry on Jan. 26

The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Agency Information Collection Activities: OCS Net Profit Share Payment discussed on Jan. 26 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: MR PATEL: Thanks so much, and thanks, everybody, for joining us this morning. Apologies for the slightly tardy start. So today joining us we have Assistant Secretary Barbara Leaf to preview Secretary Blinken’s travel this upcoming weekend to Egypt, Israel, and the West Bank. This call will be on the record but


Peters & Hawley Call on GAO to Assess Potential National Security Risks & Conflicts of Interest Posed by Consulting Firms that Contract with US and Chinese Governments

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental affairs Committee, and Josh Hawley (R-MO) are calling on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the national security risks posed by private consulting companies that concurrently...


News Release: An Ohio man was arraigned today on criminal charges related to his alleged false statements to U.S. immigration and law enforcement officials about his military service and involvement in a politically and ethnically-motivated attack on civilians in Croatia during the civil war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.


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