ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs The economic impact of Arnold Air Force Base across the state of Tennessee was $918.3 million for the 2022 fiscal year. Arnold AFB impacted the local areas through payroll, secondary jobs created through local spending, and other expenditures for supplies, utilities, fuel and services and the spin-off impact of those purchases. The base employed a mixtur  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Feb. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Melissa Weitzel, AEDC Office of the Staff Judge Advocate The Servicemember Civil Relief Act has been updated to increase the protections offered to servicemembers and their dependents. It was enacted in 2003 but was amended as part of the Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022. The SCRA is a shield for those whose financial affairs may be negatively impacted by their service. T  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb. 17 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 16, 2023, titled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Tennessee - 2022": In 2022, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 6.1 percent in Tennessee, not si  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2023: CFTC Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger, sponsor of the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC), today announced the EEMAC will hold a public meeting from 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (CT) on Tuesday, February 28 in Nashville, Tennessee at the Nashville Public Library. Members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually and if space permits, in person. At thi  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 16 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: On Monday February 13, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $26,676,000 from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water in Tennessee. This investment, which is allocated to states and territories, will be made available to communities as grants th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following readout of Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta's trip to Memphis, Tennessee: * * * Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta traveled to Memphis today to attend the investiture of U.S. Attorney Kevin Ritz for the Western District of Tennessee and meet with local Memphis officials and community leaders. Associate Attorney General Gupta met with Mayor Jim Strickland and Police Chief C.J. Davis to discuss the city's req  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Two Amazon marketplace sellers and four of their companies have pleaded guilty to price fixing DVDs and Blu Ray Discs. On Feb. 10 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Bruce Fish of Hayfield, Minnesota, along with BDF Enterprises, Inc., a corporate entity owned by Fish, admitted to participating in a conspiracy to fix the prices of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs sold on the Amazon marketpla  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space's second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2). Axiom Space's Director of Human Spaceflight and former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will command the privately funded mission. John Shoffner of Knoxville, Tennessee, will serve as pilot. The two mission specialists, Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi from the Kingdom  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- The National Labor Relations Board issued the following decision (Case No. 15-RC-304092) by Region 15 Director M. Kathleen McKinney: * * * PECO FOODS, INC., EMPLOYER and UNITED FOOD & COMMERCIAL WORKERS UNION, LOCAL 1529 AFL-CIO, CLC, CORDOVA, TENNESSEE/1, PETITIONER DECISION AND DIRECTION OF ELECTION Peco Foods, Inc. (Employer) operates a facility located in West Point, Mississippi where it is engaged in the processing of chicken. On September 26, 2022, United Food &   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Natural gas furnaces not only heat your home, they also produce a lot of pollution. Even modern high-efficiency condensing furnaces produce significant amounts of corrosive acidic condensation and unhealthy levels of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and methane. These emissions are typically vented into the atmosphere and end up pollut  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have begun operating a unique system designed to enable a variety of testing to characterize the performance of an advanced heat transfer fluid for renewable energy. Known as the Facility to Alleviate Salt Technology Risks, or FASTR, the system's inaugural run evaluated the viabilit  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 14 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers demonstrated that window shades with a cellular or honeycomb structure provide higher energy savings during winter compared to generic venetian blinds and can save millions of tons of carbon emissions. Windows contribute to energy demand in residential homes because they let heat escape; coverings can improve insul  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists set out to address one of the biggest uncertainties about how carbon-rich permafrost will respond to gradual sinking of the land surface as temperatures rise. Using a high-performance computer simulation, the research team found that soil subsidence is unlikely to cause rampant thawing in the future. This permanently  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Transuranic Waste Processing Center (TWPC) recently shipped its first load of transuranic (TRU) waste for disposal since coming under the management of Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) cleanup contractor UCOR. TWPC work was recently moved under the Oak Ridge Reservation contract that continues for the next decade, ensuring appro  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Feb. 15 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release: A former Memphis Police Department (MPD) officer pleaded guilty in federal court in the Western District of Tennessee to one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law for assaulting an arrestee in January 2021. According to the defendant's admissions at the plea hearing, Armando Bustamante was working as an MPD officer in January 2021. While o  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -- The Veterans Affairs Inspector General issued the following oversight report (No. 21-03310-54) entitled "Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection of the Memphis VA Medical Center in Tennessee." Here are excerpts: * * * Report Overview This Office of Inspector General (OIG) Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Program (CHIP) report provides a focused evaluation of the quality of care delivered in the inpatient and outpatient settings of the Memphis VA Medical Center and assoc  more