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By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Amalie Oil Company USA (AOCUSA) for violations of the Clean Water Act and its regulations related to oil pollution prevention at the company’s Vernon, Calif. facility. Under the settlement, AOCUSA will pay a $132,590 penalty.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent letters to four federal agencies-the U.S. Department of Treasury, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Federal Trade Commission -and five digital...

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON (Aug. 15, 2022) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a potential Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel. This Panel will focus on the agency’s ...

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 22, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that Ohio-based Autosales, Inc. will pay a $600,000 penalty under the Clean Air Act for illegally selling aftermarket products that alter vehicles’ emissions-control systems – known popularly as defeat devices ...

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 23, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has deleted a portion of the Tybouts Corner Landfill site in New Castle, Delaware, from the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is a list of the nation’s most contaminated hazardous waste sites.

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON (Aug. 17, 2022) - Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing $3.6 million in available funding for federally-recognized Tribes and intertribal consortia to develop or refine wetland programs. During this competitive solicitation, EPA anticipates awarding funding for up to 25 projects that help build wetland capacity, strengthen nation-to-nation relationships, promote equity, and improve climate resilience.

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: The International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico (IBWC), today held a ceremony to announce that IBWC Minute No. 328, “Sanitation Infrastructure Projects in San Diego, California – Tijuana, Baja California for Immediate Implementation and for Future Development,” has entered into force.

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (AUG. 18, 2022) – Residential developer Heartland Development LP will pay a $51,690 civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA). According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the company failed to adequately control stormwater runoff from the Covington Creek and Covington Court construction developments in Olathe, Kansas.

By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022

News Release: (Seattle – Aug. 22, 2022) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Smith Frozen Foods, Inc. of Weston, Oregon has agreed to pay a $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, is launching his annual Ag Tour next week, kicking off the week-long highlight of Arkansas agriculture operations on Monday in Fayetteville.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioners Christy Goldsmith Romero and Summer Mersinger got a firsthand look at the Blockchain Center of Excellence at the University of Arkansas today while discussing a path forward to bring more consumer protection to the crypto industry.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: Committee on Education and Labor Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Education (Department) Secretary Miguel Cardona regarding a proposed rule on comprehensive reviews of change in ownership. This rule will not fix the problems plaguing the control and conversion application process, but it does unfairly target proprietary institutions.

By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: Washington, D.C. - In their massive tax and spending spree, Democrats and President Joe Biden just granted U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra sweeping and unprecedented authority to implement government price controls over prescription drugs.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - As President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomed the nearly $40 billion she secured in the legislation to tackle the climate crisis, lower costs for families, and create good paying jobs in rural America.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: Washington, D.C. - In their massive tax and spending spree, Democrats and President Joe Biden just granted U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra sweeping and unprecedented authority to implement government price controls over prescription drugs.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, authored an opinion piece published in Agri-Pulse that spotlights how poor agriculture policy decisions by Sri Lankan leadership played a large role in the government’s collapse.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2022

News Release: Washington, D.C. - In their massive tax and spending spree, Democrats and President Joe Biden just granted U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra sweeping and unprecedented authority to implement government price controls over prescription drugs.

By State Newswire | Aug 29, 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today are urging the Biden Administration to engage on U.S.-Iraqi shared economic interests by preserving energy firms’ access to the Iraqi-Kurdish region’s ...

By State Newswire | Aug 29, 2022

News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the anniversary of the Aug. 26, 2021 suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport that took the lives of 13 U.S. service members:

By Press release submission | Aug 29, 2022

Carper Statement on EPA Proposal Designating Certain PFAS Chemicals as Hazardous Substances