WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.46 million grant to the Campbell County Economic Development Corporation of Gillette, Wyoming, to help build an Advanced Carbon Products Innovation Center that will spur new business growth in the Powder River Basin region. This EDA g  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * - A public hearing will be held in Hot Springs, South Dakota on October 5th, 2019 * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting public comment on two Underground Injection Control (UIC) Draft Area Permits and one associated proposed aquifer exemption decision for the Dewey-Burdock uranium in-situ recovery (ISR) site located near Edgemont, South Dakota, under the authority   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following news release: New grants to digitize historical newspapers from Rhode Island, Wyoming, and the Virgin Islands bring the NEH-LOC National Digital Newspaper Program closer to goal of comprehensive U.S. coverage. Chronicling America, the free, searchable database of historical American newspapers, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and housed and maintained online at the Library of Congres  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency has issued the following statement by Under Secretary Bill Northey on the crop insurance liability for farmers impacted by the collapse of the Fort Laramie irrigation tunnel: "USDA has worked with local, state, and federal partners over the past month as they investigated the cause of the Ft. Laramie irrigation tunnel failure, which affected many Nebraska and Wyoming farmers. After reviewing preliminary assessmen  more

DENVER, Colorado, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: The State of Wyoming Office of Homeland Security recently welcomed the first member of its Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Integration Team (FIT). FITs enhance intergovernmental coordination by co-locating FEMA personnel with their state counterparts. The Wyoming FIT will allow the state's emergency management services to have an in-house com  more