PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 26 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 25, 2023, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the Washington Metropolitan Area - 2021-22": * * * Households in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, metropolitan area spent an average of $94,171 per year in 2021-22, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra   more

MILTON, Pennsylvania, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: * * * Custom Container Solutions faces $484K in proposed penalties for 30 violations * * * U.S. Department of Labor investigations found a Pennsylvania manufacturer of steel containers exposed employees to a wide range of safety and health hazards at its Milton facility. The department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an inspec  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL researcher Dustin McIntyre, Ph.D., has an increasingly busy personal and professional life. He is a full-time dad, brother, son, and scout leader in his Washington, Pennsylvania, hometown. He is also an award-winning innovator, spearheading important research on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy - an analytical technique that that supports deve  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA is proposing updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Summers County, West Virginia. Community partners are invited to participate in a 90-day appeal and comment period. The updated maps were produced in coordination with local, state and FEMA officials. Significant community review of the maps has already taken place, but bef  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL has initiated a four-year plan to develop a direct air capture (DAC) process that integrates expertise from the Lab's extensive materials design, computational materials design, computation fluid dynamics, and process system design research portfolios to advance a cutting-edge technology that will remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. D  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Army Security Assistance Command issued the following news: Three military branches, two leadership roles, one man. Douglas Smith, a logistics management specialist for the United Arab Emirates at the Security Assistance Command in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, has mastered his take on work-life balance. It all started when Smith decided to join the Marine Corps in June 1992. He was assigned as part of a heavy weapons platoon in the 1st Battalion  more