WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Acting Labor Secretary Julie A. Su issued the following statement on April 19, 2024: * * * In a statement today, Acting Secretary Julie Su joined President Joe Biden in congratulating Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee who voted to unionize on April 19, 2024: "I want to congratulate the workers at Volkswagen Chattanooga who have exercised their fundamental right to choose to join a union today. As I have said, unions are good for workers - and when workers do  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Rigoberto "Gobet" Advincula, a scientist with joint appointments at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, or AIMBE. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is a distinction conferred on the top 2% of medical and b  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke at the Birmingham Civil Rights Conference: * * * Remarks as Prepared for Delivery It is truly an honor to be at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church once again. I was here this fall along with Pastor Price and with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Senator Doug Jones and many others to commemorate the 1963 bombing that happened here. As you've heard, this C  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Auburn University's McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security was awarded a $10 million Department of Energy grant in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to create a pilot regional cybersecurity research and operations center to protect the electric power grid against cyberattacks. The total value of the project is $12.5 million,   more

DOVER, Delaware, April 20 -- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings issued the following news release: Attorney General Kathy Jennings has joined a coalition of 25 states and territories in filing a letter with the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in support of proposed rules entitled "Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transactions." The April 16 letter expresses staunch support for the would-be regulations, which will redu  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The iconic 3039 stack has towered over the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) since the lab's earliest days, providing ventilation to operations at the site. However, recent inspections revealed portions of the landmark had deteriorated and required repairs. The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) performs periodic inspections of th  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 20 -- Gov. Brian P. Kemp, R-Georgia, issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced the appointment and re-appointment of the following 41 Georgians to various state boards, authorities, and commissions. * * * Board of Regents T. Dallas Smith will now serve as the Fifth Congressional District Representative. Thomas L. Bradbury will now serve as the Sixth Congressional District Representative. Richard T. Evans will now ser  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following readout of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke's trip to Los Angeles, California: * * * Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division traveled to Los Angeles on April 11 and 12 to continue the division's tour to engage with stakeholders in underserved communities and reaffirm the department's commitment to protecting the civil rights of all Americans. On Thursday, As  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Two researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will present on ORNL's polyphase wireless power transfer system at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 30. The Zoom webinar is part of DOE's Office of Technology Transitions National Lab Discovery Series. Register online to attend. ORNL's Omer Onar, group leader for vehicle power electronics research,  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Rishi Pillai and his research team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive a Best Paper award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Gas Turbine Institute in June at the Turbo Expo 2024 in London. The winning paper is "Leveraging Additive Manufacturing to Fabricate High Temperature Alloys with Co-Designed   more

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- President Biden issued the following remarks at a campaign event at the Carpenters Training Center: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Guys, you come up here. Come on. Come on. Good to see you, buddy. PARTICIPANT: Yeah, you too. THE PRESIDENT: Come on. With the Bells and the Bidens, like all of you -- my dad used to have an expression. He'd say, "Family is the beginning, the middle, and the end" -- "the beginning, the middle, and the end." (Addressing Megan Bell's   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today the selection of nature-based solutions projects in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (LMRV) for forestry and wetland restoration across more than 63,100 acres of national wildlife refuges and state-managed lands in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. These projects, totaling over   more

SEATTLE, Washington, April 20 -- Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following news release on April 19, 2024: Attorney General Bob Ferguson won a court order today in his consumer protection lawsuit against Labor Law Poster Service and its Michigan-based owners, blocking the company from deceiving Washington businesses. The company has illegally targeted thousands of Washington small businesses with a series of fraudulent schemes. The details of these schemes vary, but t  more