WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This is the story of a necropsy and the clues it revealed, one by one, about what ended the life of a young humpback whale. It died in May 2024 off the Oregon Coast. A necropsy of a stranded whale provides a rare glimpse into the life of the animal, its species, and the marine ecosystem on which it depends. Autopsies on humans help divulge the cause of death and contributing factors. Similarly  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, June 29 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Seattle District issued the following news release on June 28, 2024: Brig. Gen. William C. "Bill" Hannan, Jr. assumed command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division in a ceremony at Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River today. Brig. Gen. Geoff Van Epps, who led the division since 2021, relinquished command to Maj. Gen. William Graham, deputy Chief of Engineers and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Arm  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: The National Transportation Safety Board announced a series of restrictions and sanctions on Boeing after the company blatantly violated NTSB investigative regulations-and Boeing's signed party agreement with the NTSB-by providing non-public investigative information to the media and speculating about possible causes of the Jan. 5 door-plug blowout on a Boeing passenger jet in Portland, Oregon. D  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Carlisle Construction Materials, LLC paid a $24,780 penalty for Clean Water Act violations that occurred at its former facility in McMinnville, Oregon. In December 2021, an EPA inspector found several violations of the company's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit including: * failure to document an undisclosed stormwater disc  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Export-Import Bank of the United States Office of Inspector General issued the following news release: The bipartisan Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) today unanimously approved a $50 million financing package to small business ESS Inc. under the Make More in America (MMIA) Initiative to finance the construction of several new long-duration battery storage production lines at ESS Tech's Wilsonville, Oregon facility. This is the   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Board Unanimously Approves Battery Storage Production Deal for Oregon firm, supports hundred U.S. jobs * * * The bipartisan Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) today unanimously approved a $50 million financing package to small business ESS Inc. under the Make More in America (MMIA) Initiative to finance the construction of several new long-  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Key researchers from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories converged on NETL's Albany, Oregon, site to discuss hydrogen energy-related research work of eXtremeMAT-H2-- an NETL-led consortium of laboratories that accelerates the development of cost-effective alloys for use in the harsh environments of advanced energy systems. Clean hydrogen is int  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A Bend, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing 20 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Isaac Kitashima, 48, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and five years' supervised release. According to court documents, from August 2020 through June 2021, Kitashima and co-conspirators conducted a multi-state drug trafficking operation  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A Springfield, Oregon member of an international drug trafficking organization operating in Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced to federal prison. Rodolfo Arroyo-Segoviano, 38, was sentenced to 145 months in federal prison and three years' supervised release. According to court documents, between April and August 2020, Arroyo-Segoviano managed the local distribution network  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Chemical Safety Board issued the following news release on June 24, 2024: Today the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) issued its final investigation report into the fatal naphtha release and fire at the BP-Husky Toledo Refinery ("BP Toledo Refinery") in Oregon, Ohio, on September 20, 2022, which resulted in the death of two BP employees, who were brothers. During an emergency situation at the refinery, liquid naphtha was released   more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The White House issued the following readout of a meeting on June 24, 2024, with state attorneys general on the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe vs. Wade: * * * Yesterday, to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Gender Policy Council, and Tom Perez, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Intergovernm  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The White House issued the following readout of a meeting on June 26, 2024, with state paid leave administrators: * * * Yesterday, Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director of the Gender Policy Council, and Tom Perez, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, convened agency partners and administrators of state paid family and medical leave programs for a discussion. Participating admi  more