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Federal Tipoffs Involving California Newsletter for Wednesday November 27, 2024 ( 9 items )  

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Expenditures for the Los Angeles Area - 2022-23'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures for the Los Angeles Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Los Angeles, CA, metropolitan area spent an average of $86,077 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, housing, and transportati  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Expenditures for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area - 2022-23'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures for the Phoenix Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Phoenix, AZ, metropolitan area spent an average of $95,481 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, housing, and transpo  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Expenditures in the San Diego Metropolitan Area - 2022-23'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the San Diego Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the San Diego-Carlsbad, CA, metropolitan area spent an average of $91,204 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, housing,  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Expenditures in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area - 2022-23'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA, metropolitan area spent an average of $110,886 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted tha  more

BLS - Western Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Expenditures in the Seattle Metropolitan Area - 2022-23'
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the Seattle Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, metropolitan area spent an average of $101,306 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that food, hous  more

California to Receive Nearly $1.2 Million From EPA to Help Businesses Prevent Pollution
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the California Air Resources Board and the University of California Berkeley for a total of $1,180,939 in grants for technical assistance to businesses to develop and adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices in their communities. EPA announced 48 selectees nationwide who will collectively receive nearly $19 million in grants   more

Founder of U.S. Freight Forwarding Company Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Illegally Export Goods From U.S. to Prohibited Chinese Companies
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 26, 2024: Richard Shih, 77, the founder and former chief executive officer of a California-based international logistics and freight forwarding company with offices in Grapevine, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to violate export laws by shipping goods to Chinese companies on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List. According to court documents, as of September 2018, Shih's U.S. compa  more

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Big Ideas Lab Takes Closer Look at National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center
LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: It's been 45 years since the first emergency phone call from the Department of Energy came into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to activate a new atmospheric modeling center that predicts the effects of hazardous plumes. Listen on Apple or Spotify. An accident had occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979,   more

Reclamation continues B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Expansion Project public negotiation sessions
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: PUBLIC NOTICESACRAMENTO, Calif. The Bureau of Reclamation today announces continued public negotiation sessions with the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority for an Operations Agreement and Cost Share Agreement for the B.F. Sisk Dam and Reservoir Expansion Project, located on the west side of California's Central Valley near Los Banos.Reclamation and SLDMWA are partnering   more