WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Philadelphia (Nov 18, 2024) - The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order with the City of Salem, West Virginia for Clean Water Act (CWA) violations at its wastewater treatment plant. The City of Salem was cited for several CWA violations for failing to, among other things, comply with the effluent limits contained in its Nat  more

MIAMI, Florida, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release: On Nov. 15, Conrad Brandon Bernard, 24, pled guilty in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to committing bank fraud and identity theft during a scheme to fraudulently obtain over $1 million in Covid-19 relief loans and unemployment compensation payments. During the COVID-19 outbreak, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program was utilized to provide loan assistance  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: In an op-ed published in the Charleston Gazette-Mail over the weekend, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS), highlighted the successes in West Virginia's fight against the addiction crisis and work still left to be done. This follows the West Virginia  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) applauded the announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), that the H-2B visa cap will be supplemented with nearly 65,000 additional nonagricultural worker visas for Fiscal Year 2025. Senator Manchin urged the agencies to release these visas, which represent the maximum permitted under the authority,  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 -- Rep. Carol Miller, R-West Virginia, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV), Congressman Randy Feenstra (R-IA), Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) and several of their colleagues in the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee released a request for information from relevant stakeholders on biofuel tax policy. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act, enacted in 2022, made significant modifications to biofuel tax policy without any Republican inp  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) issued a 40-page report in June 2024 entitled "Economic Policy Is Environmental Policy - Prioritizing Environmental Progress in Pennsylvania's Department of Community and Economic Development." The report was written by Donna Kohut, Policy Manager for Sustainable Economics. Here are excerpts: * * * Acknowledgements Much gratitude to the PennFuture staff who lent support to this project including Patrick McDonnell, Pr  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 18, 2024: Emariel Kanay Tyler, 20, of Akron, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to use of a communication facility to facilitate a drug trafficking offense. According to court documents and statements made in court, on March 29, 2023, Tyler traveled from a Charleston apartment to a residence in Wyoming County with quantities of methamphetamine and f  more