HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Jan. 8 -- Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor issued the following news release on Jan. 7, 2025: Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today announced the release of audits of 39 municipal and police pension plans in Allegheny, Armstrong, Centre, Columbia, Cumberland, Erie, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lawrence, Luzerne, McKean, Mercer, Pike, Somerset, Tioga, Wyoming and York counties. "Our audits make sure state pension aid is used as required by law, which helps to re  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today applauded President Biden's designation of the Chuckwalla National Monument in southern California. The new national monument spans over 624,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management-managed public lands where the Colorado and Mojave Deserts come together, offering stunning mountains and canyons, important cultural and historic resources,  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced $45 million in federal funding for six projects to create regional consortia to accelerate the development of critical mineral and materials supply chains including novel nonfuel carbon-based products from secondary and unconventional feedstocks. Realizing th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: USDA Celebrates President Biden's Sattitla Highlands Monument Designation Jan. 7, 2025 Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack praised President Biden's designation of a new national monument Sattitla Highlands National Monument in Northern California. The designation protects Tribal ancestral homelands, historic and scientific treasures, rare flora and fauna, and underground aquifers at the headwaters  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Jan. 7, 2025: * * * President Biden Establishes Chuckwalla and Sattitla Highlands National Monuments in California President Biden has now conserved more lands and waters than any President in history and has created the largest corridor of protected lands in the lower 48 states, the Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor Surrounded by canyon walls in the Eastern Coachella Valley, today President Biden will sign  more