WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to six cooperative agreements for floodplain management in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $906,743. The categories of funding activity are a) community development, b) disaster prevention and relief, c) education, d) employment, labor and training, e) envir  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 6: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that five grantees in the state of Connecticut have been selected to receive $2.3 million for six projects to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. These funds will aid under-served and economically disadvantaged communities around the state in assessing and cleaning up abandoned  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The National Park Service (NPS) has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) and approved DC Water's proposed Soapstone Valley Park Sewer Rehabilitation Project. Soapstone Valley Park is managed by Rock Creek Park and is located southeast of the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NW and Albemarle Street NW, extending to Broad Branch Road NW. DC Water has determined that the Soa  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- The White House issued the following news release: NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: John M. Barger, of California, to be a Member of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board for a term expiring October 11, 2022, vice David Avren Jones, term expired. Erik Paul Bethel, of Florida, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Panama. Marshall Billingslea, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Contr  more