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By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced New York has received nearly $207 million in clean water funding awarded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for water infrastructure improvements. This is the first installment of a total of nearly $427 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding going to New York for water infrastructure, with an additional $220 million expected to be awarded later this fall.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today praising President Biden’s announcement that he will release 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to provide relief to Americans facing high gas prices as a result of the latest manipulation of the global oil market by OPEC+:
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today praising President Biden’s announcement that he will release 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to provide relief to Americans facing high gas prices as a result of the latest manipulation of the global oil market by OPEC+:
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement on President Biden’s plan to release up to 15 million more barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today praising President Biden’s announcement that he will release 15 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to provide relief to Americans facing high gas prices as a result of the latest manipulation of the global oil market by OPEC+:
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $14,504,000 for water improvement projects in Arizona, California, Nevada and Hawai’i to implement Nonpoint Source (NPS) management plans. Nonpoint source pollution is caused by rainfall moving over the ground, leading to runoff which picks up natural and man-made pollutants as it flows. NPS pollution, unlike pollution from industrial and sewage treatment plants, comes from many diffuse sources.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and several Oversight Committee Republicans are pressing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Kahn over the FTC’s use of unpaid consultants and experts. An investigation by the FTC Inspector General (OIG) ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Oct. 19, 2022) — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $79 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to the state of Wisconsin for water infrastructure improvements.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX), along with Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Roger Wicker (R-MD) released the following statement after President Biden signed H.R. 4693, the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act into law today.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 19 , 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 and Haskell Indian Nations University (Haskell) have partnered to promote environmental collaboration and career opportunities for Haskell students.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA (Oct. 19, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that comprehensive reviews will be conducted of completed cleanup work at 45 National Priority List (NPL) Superfund sites in the Southeast.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) to resolve violations of hazardous waste regulations at 1,160 facilities across forty-five (45) states and the territory of Puerto Rico.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 18, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 will hold a Public Availability Session and Community Meeting at the Verona High School on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The session will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the meeting with a presentation at 7 p.m. Following the presentation by the attending agencies, EPA will facilitate a question-and-answer session until 9 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SANTIAGO, Chile-Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) released the following statement on the congressional delegation’s visit to Colombia...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are raising concerns that Huawei infrastructure has yet to be removed from the U.S. cellular network despite its threat to national...
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul issued the following statement in response to the growing fighting and violence in Ethiopia.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, issued the following statement in response to the Department of Justice (DOJ) filing complaints for permanent injunctions against six e-cigarette manufacturers on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) announcement of the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Pacific.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced key committee staff changes.
