News published on Federal Newswire in March 2023

News from March 2023


USDOJ-OJP-BJA offers new grant application process starting March 1

BJA FY 23 Smart Prosecution: Innovative Prosecution Solutions Training and Technical Assistance Program grant opened on March 1.


News Release: Washington, DC - 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 ...


Comer: Biden’s Labor Secretary Nomination Alarming for Taxpayers

News Release: Democrats from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are cutting through the misinformation about the Affordable Care Act and focusing on how millions of Americans are benefiting from this law.


Release: By Cindy Long, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.


February: Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement publishes 66 press releases

There were 66 press releases published by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February.


News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Brandon Eugene Massey, 38, of Blacksburg, S.C., to 151 months in prison, for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also imposed five years of supervised release following incarceration.


Former Wethersfield Resident Pleads Guilty to Meth, Fentanyl and Cocaine Distribution Charge

News Release: WETHERSFIELD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, and Wethersfield...


Welcoming Progress on the Path to Normalization between Kosovo and Serbia

News Release: The United States welcomes the leaders’ talks under the EU-facilitated Dialogue on February 27 and strongly supports the process of normalization of their relations. Yesterday’s meeting was a good step forward, but difficult work remains. Agreement on the implementation annex is essential to normalization ...


DOI-BLM grant application closes on May 5

FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Montana/Dakota Cultural and Paleontological Resource Management grant opened on March 1.


Federal Disaster Assistance for Georgia Storms Tops $7 Million

News Release: ATLANTA - Six weeks after a ferocious line of thunderstorms and tornadoes crossed Georgia, more than $7.48 million in federal disaster assistance was approved for homeowners, renters and businesses that were affected.


EPA Opens Community Welcome Center in East Palestine for Residents and Business Owners

News Release: WASHINGTON – As response efforts shift to the long-term cleanup phase, today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening a community welcome center in East Palestine, Ohio. The EPA Community Welcome Center will provide residents with a one-stop shop for information regarding the federal ...


US Department of Labor finds El Paso metal-plating company continues to willfully expose employees working with corrosive acids to eye injuries

News Release: EL PASO, TX - 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.


Cyantraniliprole; Pesticide Product Registration; Receipt of Application for New Uses discussed on Feb. 28 by Environmental Protection Agency

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


EPA Announces Most Energy-Efficient Manufacturing Plants in Kentucky

News Release: FRANKFORT, KY. (Feb. 28, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that two U.S. manufacturing plants earned the agency’s 2022 ENERGY STAR certification in Kentucky, a designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector. ...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, H.R. 1107, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Is Not a Developing Country Act, led by the Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific Young Kim (R-CA), passed out of committee. Watch the remarks delivered by Chairman McCaul during today’s committee markup here.


Western Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings discussed on Feb. 28 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


What did State Department publish on Feb. 28?

The US State Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: BOSTON - Two members of a Cape Cod heroin trafficking ring have been sentenced to 10 years and nine years in prison for their roles in a violent kidnapping captured on video.


Notice published by Labor Department on Feb. 28

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DHS-DHS offers new grant application process starting March 1

Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program - Region 10 grant opened on March 1.