WASHINGTON, May 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on May 21, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * Job openings rates decreased in 9 states and increased in 1 state on the last business day of March 2024. The number of job openings decreased in 12 states, increased in 1 state, and was little changed in 37 states and the District of Columbia in March. The largest decreases in job openings occurred in California (-119,000), Pennsyl  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL researchers are studying how sorbents used in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies degrade and working on ways to accurately predict sorbent's lifetimes and limit degradation. In DAC technologies CO2 is separated from ambient air and delivered in a compressed form for storage or reuse. Sorbents based on a polymeric amine degrade when exposed to air, humidit  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- 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

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on May 22, 2024: A resident of Youngstown, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and fluorofentanyl, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Teqwan Scott, 29, pleaded guilty before Senior United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab to conspiring to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and 10 grams  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 22 -- Vice President Kamala Harris issued the following remarks on May 21, 2024, at the Service Employees International Union Quadrennial Convention: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hi, everyone. Good afternoon, SEIU. Good afternoon. (Applause.) Good afternoon. Oh, it is good to be in the house of labor. AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! THE VICE PRESIDENT: That's right. We'll do it together. We'll do it together. Thank you. AUDIENCE: Fo  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The White House issued the following readout of Vice President Kamala Harris' meeting on May 21, 2024, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: * * * Vice President Kamala Harris today met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada on the margins of the 2024 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) International Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They discussed U.S.-Canada cooperation on a range of bilateral, regional, and global issues. On Haiti, they   more