BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Prim F. Escalona, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: Another individual has been convicted in the latest in a series of cases involving multi-million-dollar health care fraud and kickback conspiracies, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Carlton L. Peeples, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector Ge  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR are in the final stages of cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). With all buildings down, crews are focused on soil remediation and other projects to enable the transfer of ETTP land back to the community. The latest effort is happening on the banks of Poplar  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 23-140) on April 26, 2023: * * * Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received Tennessee Telephone Company (Tennessee Telephone), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet site, as r  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 27 (TNSrpt) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The Appalachian region is well suited to be one of the nation's clean energy hydrogen hubs because of its natural gas resources, infrastructure, storage capacity, workforce and industrial demand, according to a recently released report conducted by NETL. NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., said the report, "Appalachian Hydrogen Infrastructure Analysis  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A trio of new and improved cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in a series of presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis. Chaired by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's director of science, Bronson Messer, the session covering these next-generation codes heralds a new era of exascale computatio  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news on April 26, 2023: Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced today that Tennessee has received a payment of $163.9 million from the major tobacco companies that joined the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The landmark Settlement, finalized in 1998, resolved Tennessee's lawsuit against the major tobacco companies for violations of consumer protection laws and deceptive marketing practi  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation issued the following news: The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) today announced 102 grants totaling $232,709,981 from the state's American Rescue Plan (ARP) fund, part of which TDEC is administering in the form of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure grants. Since August, TDEC has awarded and announced $634,404,544 in grant funds through ARP programming. Of  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on April 26, 2023: * * * President Biden of the United States welcomed President Yoon of the Republic of Korea (ROK) on April 26, 2023, for a State Visit to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-ROK Alliance. The two presidents reaffirmed their ironclad commitment to what has become a global alliance focused on deepening defense and security ties, expanding economic, commercial, and environmental cooperatio  more