News from March 2023
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: BOSTON - The Lepage Bakery of Lewiston was recently recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of 86 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency's 2022 ENERGY STAR certification.

By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a hearing that will focus on examining ideas to drive down the cost of health care through transparency and competition.

By Federal Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below

By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced an award of more than $1.5 million to support employment and training services for transitioning military service members in and around the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss installation in Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: GLORIA HISAKO TAMURA MORITA. Family # 7611. Camp: Tule Lake, CA. Address: 46-16-D. My father Jinjiro Tamura came to the United States from Japan about 1906, seeking a better life. He later returned to Japan to marry my mother Toku Koide. They settled in the Sacramento area and worked in a tomato cannery...

By EPA Newswire Reports | Mar 10, 2023
EPA Requires ACS, LLC in Yuma to Improve Chemical Safety
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to demand accountability for the safety of migrant children who are coming to our country at an alarmingly high rate.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the U.S. Secretary of State and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the occasion of the C5+1 Ministerial in Astana, Kazakhstan on February 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Todd C. Smith, Assistant Special Agent in Charge at Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago, and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois announced that Alonzo Hampton, 50, of Springfield, was sentenced on March 9, 2023, by Senior U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough to...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The Budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share-all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: CUSSETA, AL - The independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed citations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to a global auto parts supplier after the 2016 death of a 20-year-old machine operator at an Alabama manufacturing facility.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
Release: WASHINGTON Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a new cybersecurity amendment on an emergency basis to the security programs of certain TSA-regulated airport and aircraft operators, following similar measures announced in October 2022 for passenger and freight railroad carriers.

By Federal Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the members of its Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, or CDIAC, and the president and vice president of the council for 2023.
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter will travel March 8-15 to Tirana, Albania, and Lisbon, Portugal. The Assistant Secretary will meet with embassy staff and observe consular operations in both cities. While in Tirana, she will meet with government officials to reaffirm our ...

By EPA Newswire Reports | Mar 10, 2023
EPA Region 8 to host webinar on upcoming environmental grant opportunities for states, tribes, communities, and non-government organizations on March 15

By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) unprecedented delay in releasing a five-year leasing plan.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: EIICHI “H.E." KAMIYA. Family # 11-017. Camp: Rohwer, AR. Address: 38-11-A. My father was born in Hawaii and went to Japan at age five when his father died, but returned to the US at the age of 19. My mother was born in CA, went to Japan for education at age five, and returned to the US at age 15. My father...

By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
Release: At the Our Ocean Conference (OOC) in Panama, the United States highlighted new and recently launched global initiatives totaling more than USD 800 million to protect our ocean and assist developing countries - from supporting the creation of marine protected areas and helping partner countries secure and enforce their marine resources, to improving the resilience of coastal areas to climate change.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: GEORGE H. MORISHITA. Family # 1340. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 5-11-3. My father emigrated to the United States in 1906, his fare financed by pay for serving in the Japanese army during the 1904-05 war between Japan and Russia. In 1924, in order to beat the deadline of the “Japanese Exclusion Act," my...

By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: On International Women’s Day, the United States stands with the international community in celebrating the tenacity, determination, and leadership of women and girls around the world and the immense contributions and accomplishments they achieve toward more peaceful and democratic societies. The Department ...