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By EPA Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON (Oct. 11, 2022) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated and added new capabilities to EJScreen, the Agency's public environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping tool. EJScreen combines environmental and socioeconomic information to identify areas overburdened by pollution. ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) applauded the final regulation issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that will bring down health insurance costs for Americans with unaffordable employer-sponsored coverage by fixing the so-called “family glitch"...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Oct. 11, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a Federal Implementation Plan to improve air quality in the Detroit metro area by lowering emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2). The expected result is cleaner, healthier air for children, the elderly, people with asthma and everyone in Wayne County. It also means less haze and acid rain which can harm sensitive ecosystems.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 12, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 11, 2022) – The Asphalt Sales Company in Olathe, Kansas, will pay $82,798 in civil penalties and improve pollution controls to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (R-MO) issued the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the Biden administration’s rule implementing Democrats’ uncapped handout to multiemployer pension plans will cost $4.5 billion more than CBO’s initial estimate...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led eight letters to Biden administration agencies that fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee to denounce and call attention to multiple instances of executive overreach.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) joined Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee Republican Leader Michelle Fischbach (R-MN), Agriculture Committee Republican Leader Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA), Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 7, 2022) – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Mid-Atlantic Region released its Climate Adaptation Implementation Plan, one of 20 developed across the agency by all regional offices and national programs.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: After receiving an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report which found more than a thousand incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized release at Head Start centers from October 2015 to May 2020, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement and demanded the majority hold an oversight hearing on the reports’ findings...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2022
News Release: BOGOTÁ, Colombia-Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) is leading a trade-focused congressional delegation to Colombia and Chile for high-level government, labor, and business meetings. During their trip, the members will examine the implementation of current U.S. trade agreements and assess opportunities to strengthen economic ties that promote labor and environmental standards.
By State Newswire | Oct 11, 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 Russia’s deadly barrage of strikes on Ukraine:
By Karen Kidd | Oct 11, 2022
What a difference a year can make, at least for for the Senate Judiciary Committee in its hearing last month for Federal Bureau of Prisons oversite
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Senators Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Angus King (I-Maine), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in introducing a resolution condemning the arrest of Cardinal Zen in Hong Kong. The resolution also reaffirms the United States’ commitment to supporting democracy, autonomy, religious freedom, and human rights in Hong Kong.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) in introducing a resolution condemning the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman whose killing last week by Iran’s ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement upon the conclusion of the congressional delegation to Stuttgart, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered the Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs Act (REPO Act), legislation to provide additional assistance to Ukraine using assets confiscated from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and other sovereign assets of the Russian Federation, as an amendment to the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on keeping the pressure on Russia and its enablers: examining the reach of and next steps for U.S. sanctions. The witnesses included ...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on the Biden Administration’s plan to again provide unilateral sanctions relief to Venezuela’s criminal network:
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have offered bipartisan legislation to empower U.S. authorities to seize high-priced ...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on Putin’s illegal annexation of four territories in Ukraine:
