PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Dec. 13 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 13, 2023, entitled "County Employment and Wages in West Virginia - Second Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in West Virginia's only large county from June 2022 to June 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news release: Amtrak customers can plan their first getaway of the new year at up to 20% off when they book Northeast Regional Coach and Acela Business Class fares now until Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. Enjoy beautiful Northeast winter landscapes with travel valid between Tuesday, Jan. 2 and Friday, Feb. 29, 2024 to and from Boston, Washington, D.C., New York City, Virginia, and more. To book a trip, vis more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA is proposing updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Amherst County, Virginia. Community partners are invited to participate in a 90-day appeal and comment period. The updated maps were produced in coordination with local, state and FEMA officials. Significant community review of the maps has already taken place, but before the more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Shamica Billups as the new resident inspector at the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant. The plant, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, is located Athens, Alabama. Billups joined the NRC in May 2023 as a project engineer through the Resident Inspector Development Program in the Region II office in Atlanta. Before joining the NRC, she  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The White House Office of Management and Budget issued the following statement of administration policy on the Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act (H.R. 357), which was introduced by Rep. Benjamin Cline, R-Virginia, and 19 cosponsors: * * * The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 357, a bill that would require that notice and comment rulemaking be initiated by a "senior appointee" and be issued and signed by a Senate-confirmed Presidential appointee. This b more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's U.S. Space Command issued the following news: Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall has redesignated Space Operations Command West as U.S. Space Forces - Space, a U.S. Space Force Component Field Command directly subordinate to the Chief of Space Operations for execution of the Secretary of the Air Force's responsibilities under Title 10, U.S. Code for Service-specific administration and support functions on Dec. 6.. U.S. Spac more PR

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Dec. 14 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: Superconducting technologies are the lifeblood of the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in its ongoing mission to probe the quarks and gluons inhabiting the quantum universe. Superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) technology, a core competency of Jefferson Lab, is used to accelerate the fundamental electron particles in th more PR