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News Tipoffs - Nebraska Editors Newsletter for Thursday February 01, 2024 ( 4 items )  

EPA Region 7 Invites Public to Attend Virtual Environmental Justice Community Stakeholder Meeting
LENEXA, Kansas, Feb. 1 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * The Feb. 22 outreach event will enable attendees to learn more about Region 7's environmental justice efforts * * * EPA Region 7's Environmental Justice (EJ) Program invites the public to join a new quarterly Community Stakeholder Meeting that is open to all community members in Region 7, which includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and nine tribal nations. EPA will hold the   more

HUD: Biden-Harris Administration Awards $3.16 Billion in Homelessness Assistance Funding to Communities Nationwide
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (TNSres) -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the following news release on Jan. 29, 2024: * * * Grant awards to over 7,000 projects represent the largest amount of annual federal funding provided through HUD's Continuum of Care program in history, expanding housing and services projects for people experiencing homelessness, including survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, and sexual assault * * * The U.S. Department of Housing and  more

Kobach, AG Coalition Demand Biden Administration Enforce Border Laws
TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 31 -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued the following news release on Jan. 30, 2024: Today, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joined 26 other states in a letter to the Biden administration supporting Texas's border defense. "If President Biden wants to stop the border crisis, he can start right now, today, by enforcing existing immigration laws, by reinstating the remain-in-Mexico policy that is required by federal law and by building the wall," Kobach said. "In  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Joins Amicus Appeal to SCOTUS to Allow Trump on Colorado Ballot
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 1 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Trump v. Anderson. The filing, led by West Virginia and Indiana, supports Donald J. Trump's position that he was unlawfully removed from the ballot in Colorado by the state Supreme Court. On December 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was ineligible to appear on the ballot under section 3 o  more