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 9 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 7: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that two grantees in the state of Vermont have been selected to receive $800,000 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 industrial and commercial  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The White House issued the following news release: NOMINATION SENT TO THE SENATE: Lisa S. Kenna, of Vermont, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Peru.  more