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Federal Tipoffs Involving Pennsylvania Newsletter for Wednesday May 22, 2024 ( 6 items )  

NETL Pursues Groundbreaking Carbon Dioxide Removal Research
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR) research -- efforts to scale-up and commercialize technologies that will offset so-called hard-to-avoid carbon emissions and remove legacy CO2 from the atmosphere and store it at the gigaton scale -- being conducted at NETL will be instrumental in meeting the decarbonization goals of the United States. In 2022, feeling   more

NETL Releases Latest Version of Multiphase Flow Software To Develop Efficient, Cleaner Energy Systems
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL has announced the release of Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges (MFiX) Version 24.1, the latest upgrade to multiphase computational fluid dynamics software used to shorten the time and cost associated with developing new power generation technologies. MFiX is the cornerstone of NETL's multiphase flow reactor modeling efforts to understand how  more

NRC Issues Event Notification for Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant, Pa.
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57132) involving Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant, Pennsylvania: * * * Facility: Beaver Valley Region: 1 State: PA Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] W-3-LP,[2] W-3-LP NRC Notified By: Shawn Keener HQ OPS Officer: Thomas Herrity Notification Date: 05/19/2024 Notification Time: 01:21 [ET] Event Date: 05/19/2024 Event Time: 00:30 [EDT] Last Update Date: 05/19/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency   more

Pa. U.S. Attorney: Food Suppliers to Pay $395,000 to Resolve Claims of Mislabeled Inspection Dates on Frozen Beef Patties Sold to Federal Prisons
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that four related food supply companies will pay $395,000 to resolve claims that frozen ground beef patties they supplied to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (the BOP) were misleadingly labeled. The United States contends that, in early 2020, the companies -- Prime Food Sales, Inc. of Port Washingto  more

U.S. Secretary of Education to Visit Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Join Debt Forgiveness Roundtable
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following media advisory on May 17, 2024: * * * On Monday, May 20, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will travel to Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he will participate in a roundtable to highlight student debt forgiveness and speak with borrowers who have been approved for relief through one of the four existing major student loan forgiveness programs: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), Income-Driven Repayment (IDR)  more

U.S. Trade Rep. Tai Commemorates World Trade Week
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai issued the following statement on May 20, 2024, in commemoration of World Trade Week: * * * From Day One, the Biden-Harris Administration has believed that trade can and must be a force for the common good. Under President Biden's leadership, our Administration is fighting for working families. Whether you have a college degree or not, whether you have five employees or 500, whether you are in rural Montana or in the heart of Balt  more