WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- Paul R. Noe, vice president for public policy at the American Forest and Paper Association and the American Wood Council, Leesburg, Virginia, has issued a public comment on the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule entitled "Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process". The comment was written on Aug. 3, 2020, and posted on Aug. 4, 2020: * * * We are writing to offer comments of the American   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: National Navajo Code Talkers Day, which occurs on August 14, formally recognizes the unique World War II contributions of Native American soldiers who served as elite cryptographers, encoding and transmitting messages using a complex Navajo language-based code that was never broken by Japanese forces in the Pacific. Established by President Ronald Reagan, National Navajo Code Talkers Day ho  more

HILL AFB, Utah, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Air Force (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: Strategic arms reduction continued as an important topic of discussion between the United States and its Cold War opponent, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, throughout the latter half of that conflict. A round of arms reduction negotiations began by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1982 resulted in the opposite of the desired outcome, however, and both nations increased participation in the arms  more