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News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 14, 2022) -- Knouse Foods Cooperative, Inc. will pay a $230,000 penalty to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations at its fruit processing facility in Peach Glenn, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today.


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News Release: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $342,400 grant funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for an environmental job training program in Illinois. EPA’s Brownfields Jobs Training Program grant will recruit, train, and place workers for community revitalization ...


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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to repeal a section of the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006...


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News Release: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of the city of Tacoma to receive a total of $1 million in grants for environmental job training programs funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funding is among 29 new grants awarded nationally through EPA’s Brownfields Job Training Program to recruit, train, and place workers for community revitalization and cleanup projects at brownfield sites.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $500,000 EPA Brownfields Grant to Train Hawaii Environmental Workers, Revitalize Communities
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News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a $500,000 grant funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for an environmental job training program in Hawai’i. The grants through EPA’s Brownfields Jobs Training Program will recruit, train, and place ...


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.5M from EPA’s Brownfields Grants to Train Missouri Environmental Workers
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News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (DEC. 14, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a total of $1.5 million in grants funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for environmental job training programs in Missouri.




Manchin, Committee Examine the Department of the Interior’s Implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) implementation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, discussed the ...


U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means publishes 56 press releases in September
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There were 56 press releases published by the U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means in September.


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News Release: GROVELAND, Fla. (Dec. 13, 2022) - On Thursday, Dec. 15, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a virtual public meeting to share information about ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions and risk information impacting Groveland, Fla.


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News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calling on Secretary Yellen to release guidance that ensures Section 45W Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicle Credits (45W) - included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - are intended only for commercial use.



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News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (DEC. 13, 2022) – EPA Region 7 on-scene coordinators (OSCs) and an EPA public information officer (PIO) are on-scene at the pipeline rupture and oil discharge near Washington, Kansas.


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Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023.


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There were 14 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in November.


House Committee on Energy and Commerce publishes 14 press releases in November
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There were 14 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in November.


House Committee on Energy and Commerce publishes 14 press releases in November
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There were 14 press releases published by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in November.


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News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Ms. Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), in light of reports that additional classified records were recovered from former...


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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today praised the confirmations of Stephen A. Owens to be Chairperson and Catherine J.K. Sandoval to be a member of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).