GEORGETOWN, Delaware, June 30 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: * * * Donovan Salvage Works to pay fired worker $40K in back wages, damages * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a Delaware salvage yard company and its owner after a federal whistleblower investigation found the company fired a smelter operator for reporting safety concerns. "Employers who retaliate against wo  more

NEW CASTLE, Delaware, June 28 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: During a visit to Delaware this week, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe joined Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Secretary Shawn Garvin at the Standard Chlorine Superfund site in New Castle, Delaware. The Superfund Site benefitted from $1 million in Bipartisan  more

NAPLES, Italy, June 29 -- The U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa - U.S. 6th Fleet issued the following news on June 27, 2023: The Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Delaware (SSN 791) arrived in Torshavn, Faroe Islands for a scheduled port visit, June 26, 2023. Delaware's arrival marks the first port visit by a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine to the Faroe Islands. "The United States and the Faroe Islands enjoy a close and growing partnership," said U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Den  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 (TNStalk)(TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center issued the following agency statement on June 26, 2023: * * * Contingency planning is underway for future surveys. * * * The 2023 Northeast Fisheries Science Center sea scallop survey has been canceled owing to mechanical difficulties with the survey vessel, the R/V Hugh R. Sharp. The Sharp is owned and operated by the University of Delaware, and has been chartere  more