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Delaney Office Hosts Federal and State Grants Workshop in Hagerstown
The Office of Rep. John K. Delaney (MD-6) hosted a Federal and State Grants Workshop Tuesday in Hagerstown at the Washington County Free Library. Attended by over 175 people, the event featured representatives from federal, state and local agencies who...
Sirote joins Alabama Center for Real Estate’s corporate cabinet
Sirote & Permutt, P.C., joined the Alabama Center for Real Estate's Corporate Cabinet this month as a commitment to helping the organization disseminate the most up-to-date, relevant real estate industry information statewide. Sirote and other mem...
EPA Grant to City of Baltimore will help revitalize properties
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a $200,000 brownfields grant to the City of Baltimore’s Sustainability Office. The grant will support efforts to assess brownfields sites potentially contaminated with hazardous substances so t...
Veterans’ Housing: Mayor Announces Increased Funding for Homeless Veterans
Today Mayor Edwin M. Lee and U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has granted a City request to waive payment standards used to calculate the value of rental vouchers provid...
Mayor Landrieu to Thank Cities for their Generosity and Visit With Former New Orleans...
Ahead of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will travel to Atlanta, Georgia, and Houston, Texas, to thank those cities for their open arms after the storm, to meet with former city residents and faith leaders d...
Workshops to be Held in Beacon to Assist Households & Small Businesses Access Solar...
Poughkeepsie…The Dutchess County Department of Planning & Development in conjunction with the Solarize Hudson Valley campaign, announced three free Solarize Beacon + educational workshops will be held to assist Dutchess County homeowners and sma...
Solar Array at Dutchess County Airport Moving Forward
Poughkeepsie…The development of a 2.498 megawatt photovoltaic (PV) solar panel array at the Dutchess County Airport in the Town of Wappinger moved forward yesterday as the Dutchess County Legislature’s Environment Committee approved resolutions wit...
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Recovery Of $165,000 Wrongly Taken By Estate Lawyers
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that his office recovered $165,212 that had been wrongly taken by David Marshall and Charles J. Kramer, Jr., lawyers for the estate of former Lyon Mountain resident Joseph Warsen. Marshall and Krame...
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U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, went on a tour through the Pullman and Calumet region to highlight the positive impact environmental restoration can have on community develop...
CalHFA Partners with U.S. Treasury & HUD to Provide Dramatically Lower Rates to Multifamily...
The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) today announced its participation in a new federal initiative in which the U.S. Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will partner with creditworthy Housing Finance Agencies (H...
Boil Water Advisory Issued for City of Reserve in Brown County
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has issued a boil water advisory for the public water supply located in the City of Reserve in Brown County, Kansas. KDHE officials issued the advisory because of a water main break. Water main bre...
Mayor Eric Garcetti Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Watts Riots
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots, Mayor Eric Garcetti spent Friday in neighborhoods where six days of civil unrest drew global attention to issues of racial inequality and a half-century of rebuilding underscored the resilient spir...
Murkowski, Sullivan Examine Federal Requirements Hindering Alaska Energy Production
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today hosted a joint Senate oversight hearing in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley to examine the effects of the federal government’s regulatory practices, including mitigation and land use requir...
EPA and Tribal Workgroup Launch Toolkit to Support Tribal Green Building
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Tribal Green Building Codes Workgroup—which consists of representatives from tribal nations and federal agencies—announced a new toolkit designed to assist tribes to prioritize and implement healthy,...
Pennsylvania Water Utility to Reduce Sewage Discharges to Delaware River and Local Creeks
The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority (DELCORA) resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations involving combined sewer overf...
MASSIVE AUTOTRANSFORMER COMES TO NYPA NIAGARA POWER PROJECT
Highlighting New York State’s ongoing commitment to modernizing its transmission system, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) welcomed the arrival this week of the first of five new autotransformers slated for the Niagara Power Project’s switchyard ...
Heitkamp Announces $46 Million Loan for Central Power Cooperative to Improve Rural Electricity
U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today announced a $46 million loan to improve rural electric infrastructure, guaranteeing rural North Dakotans have access to reliable, affordable power. “When I go to work every day in the Senate, fighting for rural Ameri...
Hoeven Announces USDA Funding for Central Power Cooperative
Speaking at a press conference in Mandan, Senator John Hoeven, a member of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah in...
Rutledge Joins with 14 Other States Asking Court to Stay the EPA’s Clean Power...
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge today announced she has joined a coalition of 15 State Attorneys General in asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to issue an emergency stay that would postpone deadlines imposed by the U.S. Env...
Donnelly Applauds USDA Investment in Improving Water Quality in Western Lake Erie Basin
U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement that it will invest in helping farmers stop harmful algae blooms from forming and expanding in Lake Erie. The USDA will award Indiana $1.5 million to h...
DEQ awards grants to protect Michigan’s Great Lakes coasts
The DEQ’s Office of the Great Lakes recently awarded more than $700,000 in grants to support coastal projects in several local communities. The federal grant funds came from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration to provide technical and fin...
Owner of CT Media Agency that Advertised Mortgage Assistance Pleads Guilty to False Advertising...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MATTHEW GOLDREICH, 46, of East Lyme, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a false advertising offense stemming from his production and dissemination o...
Homeowners, renters and business owners affected by the recent severe storms, tornadoes and flooding...
As part of the Department of the Interior’s commitment to responsible and balanced domestic energy development, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced a draft Master Leasing Plan (MLP) for public lands in east-central Utah, the f...
Kentucky Storm Survivors Urged to Register for Disaster Assistance
Homeowners, renters and business owners affected by the recent severe storms, tornadoes and flooding in Kentucky are urged to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as they may be eligible for disaster assistance.
MPSC Approves Settlement Agreement Revising Indiana Michigan Power Company’s Cost Allocation and Rate Design...
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) today approved a settlement agreement authorizing Indiana Michigan Power Company (I & M) to revise its existing cost allocation methods and rate design methods. The proceeding was required under Publ...
MPSC Approves Settlement Agreement Eliminating Alpena Power Company’s Renewable Energy Monthly Surcharge
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) today approved a settlement agreement authorizing Alpena Power Company to implement its renewable energy plan. Because the utility purchases its required renewable energy credits from Consumers Energy Compa...
Pennsylvania Man Sentenced to LWOP For Ritualistic Murder
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to life without the possibility of parole for torturing, stabbing and dismembering a Los Angeles man in a downtown hotel room, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced
State Board of Real Property Tax Services Will Meet Wednesday, August 19
The State Board of Real Property Tax Services will meet at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 19, 2015. The meeting will be held in Conference Room A on the second floor of Building 9 on the W.A. Harriman State Campus in Albany.
Rep. Kaptur Heralds $5,000,000 For W. Lake Erie Water Quality
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) heralded news today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest an additional $5,000,000 across Ohio, Michigan and Indiana to improve water quality in Lake Erie’s western basin.
Former Virginia Short Sale Specialist Sentenced to Prison for Mortgage and Tax Fraud
An Ashburn, Virginia, resident was sentenced to prison today for mortgage and tax fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District...
