WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following joint statement on Sept. 27, 2024, with 13 countries and the European Union: * * * The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the Republic of Korea and Australia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union following the conclusion of the Minerals Security Partnership's Principals' Meeting  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2024: For more than 2 years, Amy Roda, Supervisory Entomologist at USDA's Treatment and Inspection Methods Laboratory in Miami, FL, and Oregon State University's Malacologist Rory McDonnell have been researching best management practices to detect and control invasive land snails. Last month the two scientists met in Michigan to test an inexpensive  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2024: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced today that it is delaying the offshore wind energy auction planned for potential lease areas offshore Oregon due to insufficient bidder interest at this time. On Aug. 29, 2024, the Department of the Interior announced the Final Sale Notice (FSN) for offshore wind leasing on the Outer Continent  more