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By EPA Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) applauded the Biden Administration’s final rule restoring longstanding policy on the treatment of noncitizens seeking government assistance. Soon, legal immigrants will...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Ranking Member Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) and U.S. Rep. Connie Conway (R-Calif.) joined a subcommittee field hearing in Morro Bay, Calif. on the issue of offshore wind energy in the American West.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, introduced H.R. 8779, the Embassy Construction Accountability Act, to strengthen Congressional oversight of the State Department’s construction of U.S. embassies and other overseas facilities.
By Press release submission | Sep 10, 2022
E&C Leaders Request Briefing From Meta On Protecting Reproductive Health Care Privacy
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, Texas (September 8, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is committed to reducing health risks toxic air pollution and is working to update and strengthen Clean Air Act standards for commercial sterilizers to achieve that goal. As part of that process, EPA is reaching out to ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: CHAPEL HILL, NC (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: Today, Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on preventing youth from encountering the juvenile justice system...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK – In a move that will allow it to protect the nearby community, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it will add the Ochoa Fertilizer Co. site in Guánica, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), along with four other sites across the U.S. EPA will also propose two sites to the NPL, where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risk.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of Georgia Institute of Technology as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. These ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the Biden administration's final rule to ensure that noncitizens will not suffer harmful immigration consequences for receiving health and other benefits (such as nutrition assistance) they qualify for...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: GREENVILLE, NC (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of East Carolina University 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: ATLANTA (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: (CHICAGO – September 8, 2022) Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $135,212 pollution prevention, or P2, grant to Central Michigan University. This is one of the 39 national grants made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water Bruno Pigott joined 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 9, 2022
News Release: (CHICAGO – September 8, 2022) Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced over $1 million in pollution prevention, or P2, grants to the University of Illinois System. The University of Illinois Chicago Energy Resources Center will receive $350,000. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
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.
