WINDOW ROCK, Arizona, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following welcoming remarks on May 21, 2024, by Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer at the Navajo Nation: * * * Thank you for that warm welcome. I am honored to be here with leaders and members of the Navajo Nation. And I am proud to represent our Attorney General and my many Justice Department colleagues, who are working hard, every day, to strengthen our government-to-government relationship with Tribal  more

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, May 23 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: MANILA, Philippines -- U.S. Army Soldiers from the 3rd Mobilization Support Group, held the first-ever Army Reserve Subject Matter Expert Exchanges with the Philippine Army Reserve during Exercise Salaknib and Exercise Balikatan 24 in April. For three weeks, service members of 3rd MSG , based at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska, and a direct reporting unit under the 9th Mission Support Command  more

CARLSBAD, New Mexico, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on May 22, 2024: The Bureau of Land Management today announced a Public Land Order to protect 28,513 acres of U.S. Department of Agriculture National Forest System lands at the Guadalupe Cave Resource Protection Area in Lincoln National Forest. The Guadalupe Caves were originally withdrawn from mining and mineral leasing for 20 years in 2001. The Guadalupe Caves area   more

WASHINGTON, May 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on May 21, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * Job openings rates decreased in 9 states and increased in 1 state on the last business day of March 2024. The number of job openings decreased in 12 states, increased in 1 state, and was little changed in 37 states and the District of Columbia in March. The largest decreases in job openings occurred in California (-119,000), Pennsyl  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 23 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Attorney General Hilgers joined a 20-state lawsuit today challenging a new Biden mandate that creates roadblocks for infrastructure projects by forcing social, environmental, and race-based regulations on developers. The mandate eliminates President Trump's common-sense reforms that streamlined development, to instead force Biden's radical green agenda. With the mandate in ef  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 23 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release on May 22, 2024: Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA are recommending nearly $240 million in funding, and an additional $38 million in future funding, to support 46 new fish passage projects through the Administration's Investing in America agenda. These funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act will help facilitate efforts to restore acc  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 22 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news on May 21, 2024: Unprecedentedly low sea ice cover in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas during back-to-back winters from 2018 to 2019 caused a cascade of impacts that abruptly transformed the regional marine ecosystem, compounding challenges faced by the communities that rely on it. A new paper authored by scientists from NOAA Research, NOAA Fisheries and the University  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, May 23 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news on May 22, 2024: Today during the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference Governor Mike Dunleavy highlighted legislation recently passed by the Alaska Legislature. Bills passed will enable Alaska to capitalize on the State's tremendous capabilities for carbon storage, allow Railbelt customers to access lowest-cost power, and establish a Green Bank to help Alaskans finance energy efficiency improvements in their home  more