EPA awards $144,000 to Maryland to enhance wetlands
EPA Awards Pando Alliance of Ellicott City, Maryland, 2021 Indoor airPLUS Leader Award
EPA awards $292,324 to Virginia Institute of Marine Science to examine how climate change impacts wetlands
Restart of ONE’s Oakland service a boost for ag exports
[caption caption="Port of Oakland anticipates that the ONE service will be followed by the resumption of several other suspended trans-Pacific services by the end of the year. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com"][/caption]Ocean Network Express (ONE) will reinstate next month a weekly service to Oakland that it suspended earlier this year because of vessel backlogs and labor shortages. Agricultural exporters say the move is an important step toward ending the...
USDA Announces Commitment to Strengthen Hispanic-serving Higher Education Institutions
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh announced today a $12 million investment to Hispanic-serving Institutions of higher education. This announcement was part of a launch of the first in a series of virtual roundtable engagement sessions with Minority-serving Institutions and Land-grant Universities serving underrepresented students.
EPA Finalizes Plan to Clean Up Tutu Wellfield Superfund Site on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
EPA Acts on Petitions to Cut Climate-Damaging HFCs, Will Begin AIM Act Rulemaking Process
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Applauds President Biden's Restoration of National Monuments
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 7, 2021 – Tomorrow, October 8, President Biden will take action to restore protections to three national monuments that had been dismantled by the previous administration. The President will sign the new proclamations to reestablish the boundaries in place before President Trump’s unprecedented action to drastically reduce the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, and restore management conditions to the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.