PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help selectees purchase five clean school buses in four school districts across West Virginia. The Program will help accelerate the transition to zero  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help selectees purchase 213 clean school buses in 21 school districts (SD) across Pennsylvania. The Program will help accelerate the transition to zer  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help selectees purchase over 53 clean school buses in five school districts across Maryland. The Program will help Maryland accelerate the transition   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help selectees purchase 116 clean school buses in 18 school districts across Virginia. The Program will help Virginia accelerate the transition to z  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL's one-of-a-kind Direct Air Capture (DAC) Center has commenced material-scale operations and is eager to expand partnerships with innovators from government, academia and the private sector that are interested in commercializing DAC technology, helping to meet the Administration's goals of addressing legacy carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and achieving a net-ze  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization (Energy Communities IWG), which is supported by NETL, has been awarded a second-place 2024 Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Award from the National Association of Government Communicators for the "Catalyzing Economic Development in Pennsylvania's Energy Communities" event held O  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- 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 Marc Muffley, 41, of Landsford, PA, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and 3 years supervised release by United States District Court Judge John M. Gallagher for attempting to place an explosive device on an aircraft and possessing an explosive in an airport. On February 27, 2023, Marc Muff  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: A resident of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years of prison on his convictions for possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of a mixture containing heroin and fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Unite  more

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Julian Beavers, age 37, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Canaan (USP Canaan), Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and Feniqua Walker, age 30, Fort Worth, Texas, were indicted on May 28, 2024, by a federal grand jury on charges for attempting to provide fentanyl  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 30 -- President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris issued the following remarks on May 29, 2024, at a campaign event a Girard College: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, Philadelphia. (Applause.) Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I want to thank Robert Nix for your leadership and for those very kind words and all you do for our country. And I want to thank all the incredible leaders who are here with us today, in particular our young l  more

RUTLAND, Vermont, May 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that on May 29, 2024, Jashier Gillespie, 22, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to a term of 24 months' imprisonment to be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release. Gillespie previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute   more

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, May 30 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a press gaggle on May 29, 2024, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre while en route to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hi, everybody. Going back to Philly. So exciting. Good afternoon. So, we're going to go to Philly, obviously, where the President and the Vice President will participate in campaign events. And so, the campaign is going to have more information for all of you on today's even  more