ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, April 24 -- The U.S. Army Environmental Command issued the following news: The Army announced the winners of the 2024 Secretary of the Army Environmental Awards Program. The winning nominations will compete in the Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards Program with winners announced on Earth Day, April 22, 2024. The successes outlined in the nominations of these winners are examples of the many environmental successes that can be found throughout the Army  more PR

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: * * * EPA announces selectees under Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant competition to deliver solar to low-income and disadvantaged households through the President's Investing in America agenda * * * Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Maryland Clean Energy Center has been selected to receive $62,450, more PR

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: Owen M. Grigsby, 44, of Waldorf, Maryland, and Himmeh Kuawogai, 46, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in connection with filing false and misleading information in order to fraudulently obtain over $95,000.00 in Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Ma more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced settlement of a multi-media case against a Maryland oil recycling facility. Petroleum Recovery and Remediation Management, Inc. (PMI) will pay a $230,000 penalty to settle alleged Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and Clean Water Act violations at its Baltimore, Maryland facility. Included more PR

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) D.C. apprehended a Honduran national charged locally for sex crimes against a Virginia minor. Deportation officers from ERO Washington's Mobile Criminal Apprehension Team arrested the 30-year-old Honduran noncitizen April 15 at his residence in Bladensburg, Maryland. "This Honduran noncitizen stands accused of some ve more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: Robert Frazier, Jr., a/k/a "Glass," age 42, of Baltimore, Maryland, pled guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine and marijuana. As part of his plea agreement, Frazier also agreed to forfeit two high-power rifles, a handgun, and numerous rounds of ammunition. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the Dis more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, April 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: On Feb. 29, 2024 -- the rarest day of the year -- patients, clinicians, researchers, drug developers and advocates traveled to the NIH main campus or tuned in to NIH VideoCast (https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=52569) for Rare Disease Day (RDD) at NIH. More than 2,000 people attended RDD at NIH. Co-spon more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, April 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institute of Mental Health issued the following feature story on April 23, 2024: As many parents of young children know all too well, visits to the pediatrician typically involve answering a series of questions. Health care providers may ask about the child's eating and sleeping habits or about their progress toward walking, talking, and many other developmental milestones. Increasingly, they're  more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, April 25 -- The National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: On April 25, National DNA Day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will welcome a new statue, "The Ladder," celebrating DNA and children. National DNA Day is a unique day when students, teachers and the public can learn more about genetics and genomics. The day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and th more PR

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: Indian Head, Maryland - A robot dog trotted down the hallway of the College of Southern Maryland's (CSM) Velocity Center as dozens of excited faces watched in awe at the CSM Art of Innovation Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics (STEAM) Festival, April 20. The dog, two explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) robots and a fighter pilot ejection seat were just some of the technologies sho more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 25 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Baltimore District issued the following news release: With the removal of a 560-ton section of structural steel on April 22, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has cleared enough wreckage from a 35-foot-deep Limited Access Channel (LAC), in accordance with USACE's commitment to deliver it by the end of April. The LAC runs the northern portion of the wider and federal channel, which has been blocked since the March 26 collap more PR

WASHINGTON, April 25 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on April 12, 2024: * * * President Joe Biden Announces Student Debt Cancellation for 4,890 More Borrowers in Maryland, Pursuing Every Path Available to Cancel Student Debt - New announcement brings debt cancellation to over 63,360 people in Maryland under Biden-Harris Administration Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more borrowers across the country will get their student debt cancelled, including 4, more PR