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By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the University of Alabama as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. These ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: NEW DURHAM, N.H. (Sept. 8, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have reached an agreement with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department that will require the Powder Mill Fish Hatchery, located in New Durham, N.H., to take action to comply with the Clean Water Act by reducing its phosphorus discharges and studying the water quality impacts of historic pollution on downstream waters.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: FREEPORT, ME (Sept. 8, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the University of Southern Maine (USM) to receive a $350,000 Pollution Prevention (P2) grant made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's historic $100 million investment in the program. This grant will help support sustainability in the Maine craft beverage industry.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), put out the following statement on the federal court ruling in Texas which would allow employers to refuse to cover PrEP medication to protect against HIV and strike down the Affordable Care Act’s coverage protections for preventive care like birth control, STI screenings, and more.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-Ohio), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Committee Republicans are raising concerns that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is potentially using taxpayer dollars to purchase solar panels and components from China, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair and Ranking Member, Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today introduced the bipartisan Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act to bolster retirement savings.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of 39 recipients across the country that will receive nearly $12 million in pollution prevention (P2) grants made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the City of Linden will host a virtual community meeting for residents of Linden and Elizabeth, New Jersey to share information about health risks from the chemical, ethylene oxide or EtO, which is being emitted from a facility called the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter with 42 other members of Congress to President Joe Biden asking him to seek opportunities to expand tribal co-management of U.S. public lands, waters, and resources. Chair Grijalva also sent a letter to...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, held a field hearing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to examine drops in the U.S. Postal Service’s mail delivery performance, recent increases in postal mail theft and crime, and whether the Postal Service is prepared to effectively receive and deliver mail-in ballots nationally during the upcoming election cycle.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 7, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 will attend Washington County, Missouri’s 27th annual Health Fair on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 7:30 a.m. to noon in Potosi.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK -- On Thursday, September 8, 2022, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water Bruno Pigott will be joined by U.S. Representative Donald Norcross, Camden Mayor Victor Carstarphen, EPA Region 2 Senior Advisor for Equity and Chief of Staff Olivia Glenn, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn La
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 7, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it is adding five sites to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) and is proposing to add another two sites where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risk – one of which is in Bellevue, Nebraska.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA (September 7, 2022) — A project team comprised of members from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Imani Group - a local Grassroots Environmental Justice (EJ) Organization based in Aiken, SC, and consultants recently developed and hosted a series of workshops in two rural communities in close proximity to the Savanah River Site.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, expressed alarm in light of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report detailing the lack of vetting procedures for Afghan...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON (Sep. 7, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is adding five sites to the Superfund National Priorities List and is proposing to add another two where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risk.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced the committee favorably reported Doug McKalip to serve as the Chief Agricultural Negotiator within the Office of the United States Trade Representative, by a vote of 27-0.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Regional Administrator Walter Mugdan, Representative Donald Payne, Jr., Representative Josh Gottheimer, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette, the Hackensack Riverkeeper Captain Bill ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On September 7, 2022, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing to examine S.2736, the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2021; S. 1475, the Livestock Regulatory Protection Act of 2021; S. 2661, the Smoke-Ready Communities Act of 2021; and S. 2421, the Smoke Planning and Research Act of 2021.
