WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management Utah conducted a competitive oil and gas lease sale today offering one parcel covering 761 acres near Vernal. The parcel sold for $92,397. The environmental assessment, maps, parcel lists, Notice of Competitive Lease Sale and proposed lease stipulations are available online at the BLM's ePlanning website at: https://eplanning.blm  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- NASA issued the following news release: In 2023, as NASA pushed the limits of exploration for the benefit of humanity, the agency celebrated astronaut Frank Rubio becoming the first American astronaut to spend more than one year in space; delivered samples from an asteroid to Earth; sent a spacecraft to study a metal-rich asteroid for the first time; launched multiple initiatives to share climate data; advanced developments in sustainable aircraft; all while cont  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provided vital nutrition assistance to nearly 6.7 million pregnant women, new mothers, babies, and young children across the country in September of this year (see table). For the past 25 years, Congress, on a bipartisan basis, has committed to fully funding WIC to serve every eligible pregnant woman, infant, mother, and c  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: * * * Participants from 28 States and Territories will Convene for 6 Months to Learn about Energy Resilience, Buildings Efficiency, and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure from Each Other and National Laboratory Experts * * * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced leaders from 46 entities will collaborate on common clean energy o  more

PASADENA, California, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's NEOWISE has had a busy decade. Since its reactivated mission began on Dec. 13, 2013, the space telescope has discovered a once-in-a-lifetime comet, observed more than 3,000 near-Earth objects, bolstered international planetary defense strategies, and supported another NASA mission's rendezvous with a distant asteroid. And that's just a partial list of accomplishments.But all good things   more