WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-1411) on July 19, 2024, entitled "State Employment and Unemployment - June 2024": * * * Unemployment rates were higher in June in 8 states, lower in 1 state, and stable in 41 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-one states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 2 states had decreas  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: LENEXA, KANSAS (JULY 19, 2024) - Today, at the Kansas State University Technology Development Institute (TDI) in Manhattan, Acting EPA Region 7 Deputy Administrator DeAndre Singletary presented a $1.5 million ceremonial check to the Flint Hills Regional Council in Kansas as a Brownfields Grant selectee. The council has been selected to receive the funding to lead a Brownfields Assessm  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Just 30 days after President Biden declared a major disaster for the state of New Mexico following the South Fork and Salt Fires and flooding that began on June 17, more than $6 million in federal assistance has been approved by FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to support disaster recovery. "FEMA and our federal partners are working closel  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on July 19, 2024, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. EC24-60-000) involving American Electric Power Co. Inc.: * * * I concur in today's order authorizing, under section 203 of the Federal Power Act, a transaction in which a newly appointed member of American Electric Power Company, Inc.'s (AEP) Board of Directors (Board), representing the interests   more