WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 14, 2024: Today, March 14, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized 103 U.S. manufacturing plants that earned the agency's ENERGY STAR certification in 2023, a designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector. Together, these plants prevented more than 8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to the emission  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $607,395 in back wages for 227 people working on an extension of the Valley Metro Light Rail system in the Phoenix metro area. Several investigations of the companies working for Omaha, Nebraska-based Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. -- the federally supported project's prime contractor -- identified violations of the Davis-Bacon and Rel  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 15 -- Gov. Jim Pillen, R-Nebraska, issued the following statement on March 14, 2024: * * * Governor Jim Pillen has issued a statement regarding the departure of Nebraska Athletic Director Trev Alberts, as well as a "call to action" to the NU Board of Regents. His full statement is below: "The University of Nebraska has existed as an institution for more than a century and a half. It is immeasurably bigger than any one person. But leadership matters, and the long-term   more

OMAHA, Nebraska, March 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska issued the following news release: United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Stephen Ismael Monarrez, 45, of Carrol, Iowa, was sentenced on March 13, 2024 in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for distributing methamphetamine. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Monarrez to 120 months' imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After Monarrez's release from prison, h  more