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Federal Tipoffs Involving Michigan Newsletter for Sunday April 25, 2021 ( 6 items )  

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency: Pilot Accounted For From World War II (Parker, R.)
WASHINGTON, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release on April 22, 2021: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Robert Parker, 23, of Lansing, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for March 9, 2021. In November 1943, Parker was a pilot assigned to the 35th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group. On Nov. 15, he was piloting a P-40N Warhawk fighter on a patro  more

EPA Awards $16 Million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants to Central Michigan and Clarkson Universities
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 22 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 20, 2021: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded two grants totaling $16 million to continue monitoring coastal wetlands and levels of contaminants in fish throughout the Great Lakes basin. The grants -- $10 million to Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and approximately $6 million to Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York -- will be funded through the   more

EPA Awards $240,000 to Clean Up School Buses in Michigan
CHICAGO, Illinois, April 22 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 20, 2021: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $240,000 to replace 12 older diesel school buses in Michigan. The school bus fleets will receive rebates through EPA's Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) funding. The new buses will reduce pollutants that are linked to asthma and lung damage, better protecting health and air quality in communities across the country. "  more

Hiawatha National Forest and American Transmission Co Develop First-Of-Its-Kind Operating Plan Agreement
GLADSTONE, Michigan, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Hiawatha National Forest - issued the following news release: The Hiawatha National Forest and American Transmission Co. (ATC) have developed a first-of-its-kind operating plan between a utility and national forest since the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A) Forest Service adopted a new rule to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires on public land. The plan will protect public l  more

Meet Information Operations Network, Training for Future, Today
KALAMAZOO, Michigan, April 22 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: A Civil Affairs Soldier analyzes a news article shared online in an overseas operational environment, through a relationship with the partnered nation, the unit involved discovers that the article contains disinformation used by non-state actors for a political motive; because of technology used by today's U.S. Army, this training scenario is played out before the Soldier even steps foot in an overseas ope  more

NASS - Great Lakes Regional Field Office: March Milk Production
EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Dairy herds in Michigan produced 1,034 million pounds of milk during March, up 3.5 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Production per cow in Michigan averaged 2,340 pounds for March, 5 pounds above March 2020. The dairy herd was estima  more