News from March 2023
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement last week of $2.52 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) for two programs meant to spur investment in carbon capture, transport and storage technologies.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, applauded the cooperation between West Virginia and Form Energy Inc., to site Form Energy’s first iron-air battery manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the bipartisan North American Transatlantic Resource Security Partnership Act of 2023 (NATRSPA).
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on a discussion draft of the Transparency and Production of American Energy (TAP American Energy) Act and H.R. 209, the Permitting for Mining Needs Act. Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) issued the following statement in response:
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
House Committee on Natural Resources held a full committee hearing on a discussion draft of the Building United States Infrastructure through Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act of 2023.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
After seven years of robust discussion and collaboration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized the Klamath Basin Integrated Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan, which will serve as a living roadmap describing the highest priority watershed restoration and monitoring actions to help reverse the declines of multiple native Klamath Basin fish populations and ecosystems and communities.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Following a review of the best available scientific information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is listing prostrate milkweed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
As required by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it will hold an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico on March 29, 2023.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to grow America’s clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior today is proposing the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on the draft Glen Canyon Dam/Smallmouth Bass Flow Options Environmental Assessment that presents four potential operational flow options aimed at preventing smallmouth bass from successfully spawning and establishing downstream of Glen Canyon Dam.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023) Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program Feb. 27, 2023.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mountain Home Project Office would like to remind visitors that many of their parks and day use areas have transitioned to automated fee collection machines.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Memphis District (CEMVM), and their non-Federal Sponsor, the Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee (LMRCC), scheduled a hybrid in-person/virtual public meeting for its Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and Draft Environmental Assessment (DIFR-EA) of the Hatchie-Loosahatchie Mississippi River Ecosystem Restoration Study.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) delivered to Congress its Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023) Work Plan for the Army Civil Works program Feb. 27.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District entered a Planning Assistance to States (PAS) agreement with the City of Clinton, Mississippi, Feb. 28 as part of the Water Resources Development Act (Section 22).
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District is closely monitoring, in coordination with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), blue-green algae conditions at Port Mayaca Lock and Dam (S-308) after receiving aerial imagery showing a thin ribbon of algal mass moving towards the gate yesterday.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
South Atlantic Division (SAD) commander Brig. Gen. Daniel Hibner signed a Commander's Memo on Feb. 27th, 2023 establishing the division as an Engineering With Nature Proving Ground.
By State Newswire Report | Mar 3, 2023
Rep. Mike Gallagher, (R-Wisc.), chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party said China has successfully defeated efforts by Congress to push back with the help of its friends.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Nashville District Corps of Engineers hosted the first Nashville District job fair. Six qualified applicants received tentative job offers by the end of their interview.
By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Ernest Burford was joking around with an attorney while working at Ford Motor Company when the idea of becoming a lawyer first sprouted.
