WASHINGTON, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: San Diego, Calif. -- The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and FEMA, along with other state, county and local partners in San Diego County, have been working tirelessly to restore homes and businesses to pre-disaster conditions following the Jan. 21-23, 2024 severe storm and flooding disaster. In addition, the U.S. Small Business Ad  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: * * * EPA announces selectees under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant competition to deliver solar to low-income and disadvantaged communities through the President's Investing in America agenda * * * Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the California Infrastructure Economic D  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: * * * EPA announces selectees under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant competition to deliver solar to low-income and disadvantaged communities through the President's Investing in America agenda * * * Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the Government of Guam's Department of Ad  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: * * * EPA announces selectees under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant competition to deliver solar to low-income and disadvantaged communities through the President's Investing in America agenda * * * Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the Executive Office of the State of Arizona h  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: * * * EPA announces selectees under Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant competition to deliver solar to low-income and disadvantaged through the President's Investing in America agenda * * * Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the Nevada Clean Energy Fund has been selected to receive $156  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: * * * EPA announces selectees under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant competition to deliver solar to low-income and disadvantaged communities through the President's Investing in America agenda * * * Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that the Hawai'i Green Infrastructure Authorit  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 24, 2024, entitled "Washington Job Openings and Labor Turnover - February 2024": * * * Washington had 183,000 job openings in February 2024, compared to 175,000 openings in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that the job openings ra  more

SAN DIEGO, California, April 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Shawn Brown, an inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, was sentenced in federal court today to 30 months in prison for bribing a state corrections officer to smuggle contraband into prison, including dental molds and an expensive bejeweled "grill" for the inmate's mouth. A separate consecutive sentence of 48 months was also applied for Brown  more

MONTEREY, California, April 25 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: Three alumni from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security's Executive Leaders Program (ELP) contributed to a National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) study and report on intimate partner violence during public health emergencies. University of Michigan Assistant Prof. Sue Ann Bell (ELP cohort 2201) and Pandemic Response Institute Dire  more

QUANTICO, Virginia, April 25 -- The U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Command issued the following news: Every year, increasingly erratic and unpredictable climate forces are threatening Marine Corps installations and capabilities. Typhoon Mawar made this clear less than a year ago when it struck Guam - scattering debris on runways and shuttering access to essential services across the island - or more recently in California when stormwater washed out roads at San Onofre Beach near Marine Corps Base  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news: Every year, increasingly erratic and unpredictable climate forces are threatening Marine Corps installations and capabilities. Typhoon Mawar made this clear less than a year ago when it struck Guam - scattering debris on runways and shuttering access to essential services across the island - or more recently in California when stormwater washed out roads at San Onofre Beach near Marine Corps Base (MCB) Pendleton.   more

LOS ANGELES, California, April 25 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: * * * Plan Builds on Groundbreaking Federal-State Partnership Launched through 2021 Environmental Justice-Focused Agreement * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) today released a two-year action plan to collaboratively address environmental justice issues across California by enforcing laws th  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 3:21-cv-01669-JO-MSB; S.D. Cal. filed Sept. 23, 2021) involving Choice Advisors, LLC and Matthias O'Meara: * * * Federal Court Grants SEC Summary Judgment Over Claims That Municipal Advisor Breached Fiduciary Duties Owed to Its School Clients and Entered into Prohibited Fee-Splitting Arrangement * * * On April 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California gr  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57078) involving Testing Engineers Inc., Concord, California: * * * Rep Org: California Radiation Control Prgm Licensee: Testing Engineers, Inc. Region: 4 City: Concord State: CA License #: 3691-07 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: K. Arunika Hewadikaram HQ OPS Officer: Ernest West Notification Date: 04/16/2024 Notification Time: 15:57 [ET] Event Date: 04/13/2024 Event Time: 00:00 [PD  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract The recently discovered cryptic methane cycle in the sulfate-reducing zone of marine and wetland sediments couples methylotrophic methanogenesis to anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM). Here we present evidence of cryptic methane cycling activity within the upper regions of the sulfate-reducing zone, along a depth transect with  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract Introduction: In temperate regions, one of the most critical determinants of present range-wide genetic diversity was the Pleistocene climate oscillations, the most recent one created by the last glacial maximum (LGM). This study aimed to describe N. luetkeana genetic structure across its entire range (Alaska to California) and  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 24 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Morongo Band of Mission Indians following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe storms and flooding that occurred Jan. 31 -- Feb. 9, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: The Surface Transportation Board announced today that it has submitted comments on the notice of opportunity for public hearing and comment (Notice) published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on February 27, 2024. EPA's Notice considers whether the "In-Use Locomotive Regulation" standards or enforcement procedures adopted by California A  more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the University of La Verne in La Verne, California, to support healthcare workforce development. This grant will provide for the acquisition of lab equipment for the university's new Health Careers   more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: HONOLULU -- U.S. Indo-Pacific Command service members and Pearl Harbor National Park Service employees attended the memorial ceremony in honor of the last survivor from USS Arizona, Louis Al. (Lou) Conter, on April 23, 2024. The ceremony was held at the same time as his burial service in Green Valley, California, where he was laid to rest next to his late wife of 45 years, Valerie. H  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on April 12, 2024: * * * President Joe Biden Announces Student Debt Cancellation for 23,170 More Borrowers in California, Pursuing Every Path Available to Cancel Student Debt - New announcement brings debt cancellation to over 224,090 people in California under Biden-Harris Administration Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more borrowers across the country will get their student debt cancelled, includ  more