WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: MILWAUKEE Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, announced that Employ Milwaukee will receive $1.5 million to help expand access to apprenticeships for young workers and support the Cream City YouthBuild (CCYB) program. The CCYB program provides occupational skills training, paid hands-  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, celebrated the announcement that AstraZeneca will cap the cost of more of their new inhalers at $35. This announcement comes after Baldwin launched an investigation into the extremely high prices pharmaceutical companies charge for inhalers that 25 million Americans with asthma and 16 mill  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Beckart Environmental, Inc., of Kenosha, Wisconsin, for allegedly selling and distributing unregistered pesticide products in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Beckart Environmental, Inc. will pay a $546,972 penalty. Beckart Environmental, Inc. allegedly sold or distributed the unregistered pest  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota issued an order of default judgment against and his company, , both based in Minnesota, and , a Wisconsin limited liability company, for their operation of a fraudulent futures trading scheme. The order requires Miller and F2F to pay a $900,000 civil monetary penalty and, j  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: 45 Senators: "Partisan, discriminatory, and harmful policy riders have no place in must-pass legislation such as appropriations bills" Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, and New Jersey's U.S. Senator Cory Booker led a group of over 40 Senators to urge Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) to keep any new dangerou  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the following public communication dated Dec. 3, 2024, from Samuel Curtis, a biosecurity fellow at Rosetta Commons, and a policy researcher at the Open Molecular Software Foundation. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Stephanie Guerra Senior Advisor, U.S. AI Safety Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology U.S. Department of Commerce 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Was  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has released the following public communication dated Dec. 8, 2024, from Colin Smalley, president of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 777: * * * To: Ana Paunoiu Office of Personnel Management RE: Docket ID OPM-2024-0016 * * * I am writing on behalf of Local 777 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO. Our local union represents approximately 300 work  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittees on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Continuing a Bipartisan Path Forward for Antitrust Enforcement and Reform" at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 17, 2024, at 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building: Witnesses * Roger Alford, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, IN * Gwendolyn Cooley, Former Chair of the National Association of Attorneys General's Mul  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released the following statement today after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Transportation, former U.S. Representative Sean Duffy: "I look at all of the President's nominees through the lens of 'will you be good for Wisconsin.' For this nominee, I am thinking about the big infrastructure projects in the pipeline to make   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute issued the following news release: * * * Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics -- creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. * * * To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story -- they rely on enzymes that have b  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are proposing to designate critical habitat for four species of endangered freshwater mussels. Habitat for the rayed bean, sheepnose, snuffbox and spectaclecase mussels can be found in 17 states in the central and eastern United States. We are proposing to designate a total of 3,974 river miles of occupied habitat, where many of the uni  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) and Congressman Greg Landsman (D-OH) introduced legislation to increase veterans' access to non-opioid pain medications. To ensure veterans have the same access, Congressman Van Orden and Congressman Landsman introduced the NOPAIN for Veterans Act(link is external), which reforms the way the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers and covers non-opioid   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 13 -- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection issued the following news release: The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has identified a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) in a commercial poultry flock in Barron County. DATCP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) animal health officials are working together in a joint incident response. The affected premises will not move   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 14 -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2024: * * * Loan Will Support Activities To Clean Up Contamination * * * The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced it has awarded a $2 million loan to the city of West Allis to carry out cleanup activities as part of the redevelopment of the former Allis Chalmers property. The award is through the DNR's Ready for Reuse program, which provides f  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 14 -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2024: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the department was awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which will be used to improve community understanding of water quality, fish consumption and related health issues for disproportionately impacted communities in central Wisconsin. The three-year projec  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Dec. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued the following news release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on December 3, 2024, Zund America, Inc., a corporation located in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, agreed to pay $2,300,825 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to obtain a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for which i  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Dec. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued the following news release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that the University Club of Milwaukee has agreed to pay $1,003,993.86 to settle claims that the club improperly obtained a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") administered by the United States Small Business Administration ("SBA"). The PPP loan prog  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 13 -- The Wisconsin Historical Society issued the following news release: RIVER FALLS, Wis. - The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of the Roscius and Ingebor Freeman House in River Falls (Pierce County) on the State Register of Historic Places. State Historic Preservation Officer Daina Penkiunas presented a certificate to Barbara and Charles Koplin. The Freeman House was constructed in 1912, along with a similarly styled garage. It is a well-preserved  more