News from March 2023
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
How many Black workers with disabilities are working in skilled trade professions?
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
With meaningful employment secured, formerly incarcerated people can fully integrate into their communities more successfully and avoid relapse.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced it will publish a final rule to amend how the Adverse Effect Wage Rates for the H-2A program are set to improve the rates’ consistency and accuracy based on the work actually performed by these workers and to better prevent H-2A workers’ employment negatively affecting the wages of U.S. workers in similar positions.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will offer a three-day training event Aug. 8-10, 2023, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, for federal workers responsible for their agencies' workplace safety and health.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
US Department of Labor, McCarthy Building Companies sign alliance to target workplace hazards at St. Louis' BJC Campus renewal project
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A federal workplace safety investigation of an El Paso jewelry metal-plating finisher found the company again exposing workers to serious hazards, including willfully failing to protect people working with dangerous acids and other chemicals from potentially permanent eye injuries.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Federal workplace safety inspectors have again cited a Derry contractor for not protecting their employees against potentially lethal falls, this time at worksites in Merrimack and Salem.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is delaying the publication of the final revised red wolf recovery plan.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Frecklebelly Madtom Final Listing, 4(d) Rule and Critical Habitat - Frequently Asked Questions
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has announced the availability of a draft recovery plan for the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) and a 60-day public comment period.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Asmall population of a rare species of catfish now has federal protection.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
There are three subspecies of spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) that live in the western United States – the northern spotted owl, the California spotted owl and the Mexican spotted owl.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Geological Survey will provide more than $6.6 million to map critical mineral resources in Utah, in partnership with the Utah Geological Survey.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Land Management today announced the public release of a new modeling program designed to predict the potential outcomes of using various non-lethal methods to manage and protect wild horses roaming public lands.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The U.S. Geological Survey selected the Trinity-San Jacinto River Basin in Texas as the latest location for an in-depth examination of factors affecting water availability.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
A low-flying airplane will soon be visible to residents of Puerto Rico beginning in February and lasting potentially through May 2022.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Tamarah Pfeiffer, Ph.D., a member of the Navajo Nation, has been appointed as the president of Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI).
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
Nominations for the 2023 Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Awards, which recognize outstanding state and Tribal efforts to reclaim abandoned coal mines, opened today and are due to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement by May 12.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
On March 6, 2023, the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma Desalting Plant (YDP), located at 7301 Calle Agua Salada, will conduct a test of its Chemical Release Alarm System.
By Press release submission | Mar 5, 2023
The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the next public negotiation session for a repayment contract with the Orland Unit Water Users’ Association for the repayment of extraordinary maintenance work, related to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, for the Stony Gorge Reservoir Spillway Gate Replacement Project.
