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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the statement below following the release of the consumer price index (CPI) for October, which shows inflation in consumer prices, relative to a year earlier, was 7.7 percent, the eleventh consecutive month with inflation at or above 7.0 percent.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting public comments on a plan to remove mercury-contaminated soil from land at the Pierson’s Creek Superfund Site in Newark, NJ. EPA will accept comments until Dec. 12, 2022. Under the plan for which EPA is requesting comments, ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following statement.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: BOSTON (Nov. 10, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached settlements with two New England companies engaged in the sales or installation of devices that tamper with emission controls on diesel vehicles.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: DETROIT, MI - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report requested by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) can eliminate the potential for discrimination in travel...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra requesting all documents and communications related...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Tonight, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman’s newest ruling that effectively incapacitates President Biden’s student loan bailout...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on President Biden’s intention to nominate Daniel Werfel to serve as IRS Commissioner...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a proposed settlement with 13 "potentially responsible parties" (PRPs) which have agreed to finance and conduct all remedial design and remedial action activities to address groundwater contamination at the Landfill and Resource Recovery, Inc. (L&RR) Superfund Site located on Oxford Road in North Smithfield, Rhode Island.
By State Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: Austin, TX- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released a statement on Russia’s announced withdrawal from Kherson, the only regional capital illegally seized since the February 24 invasion by Russia’s invading forces.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (November 9, 2022)- January Environmental Services, Inc., January Transport, Inc., and company-owner Cris January will pay civil penalties of $1.9 million and perform comprehensive corrective measures to resolve allegations that they violated the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) through their used oil transportation and processing operations in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $7,770,044 in research grant funding to 11 institutions to develop and evaluate innovative methods and approaches to inform our understanding of the human health risks that may result from exposure to chemical mixtures in the environment.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement under the Agency’s Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) program with Evergy Kansas Central Inc. at the company’s retired Tecumseh Energy Center coal-fired power plant in Tecumseh, Kansas.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is responding to petitions from the California Air Resources Board, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, and the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association to address harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The city of Elyria, Ohio, has entered into a consent decree with the United States and the State of Ohio to complete a series of capital projects designed to eliminate discharges of untreated sewage from its sewer system into the Black River, 10 miles upstream from Lake Erie.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (NOV. 8, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement under the Agency’s Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) program with Evergy Kansas Central Inc. at the company’s retired Tecumseh Energy Center coal-fired power plant in Tecumseh, Kansas.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Members of Congress from catfish-producing states are calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to use Section 32 authorities to facilitate the domestic consumption of U.S. farm-raised catfish, assist in stabilizing markets and provide much-needed income support to farmers.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) urging the agency to review the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Technology transfer activities to ensure they are working in the best interest of the American people-not helping adversaries like China.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) urging the agency to review the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Technology transfer activities to ensure they are working in the best interest of the American people-not helping adversaries like China.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) urging the agency to review the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Technology transfer activities to ensure they are working in the best interest of the American people-not helping adversaries like China.
