WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Alabama, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment, issued the following news release on Feb. 24, 2026: * * * Environment Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Safe Drinking Water Today, Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-06), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, led a hearing titled From Source to Tap: A Hearing to Examine Challenges and Opportunities for Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Drinking Water. "Congress first enacted the S more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The Institute for Energy Research issued the following commentary: * * * In Gov. Newsom's California, It Makes Sense to Get Gasoline from the Bahamas This story is baffling. Bloomberg reports that California is starting to import gasoline from the Bahamas, while the state sits on enormous oil resources it refuses to develop. Bloomberg reports: US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Feb. 25 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on Feb. 24, 2026: * * * Governor Shapiro Takes Legal Action Against Trump Administration's Dangerous Overhaul of Immunization Panel, Longstanding Childhood Vaccine Schedule RFK., Jr. removed vaccine experts with decades of experience from the nation's leading vaccine advisory committee and appointed avowed vaccine skeptics to make vaccine recommendations for our families. In January, the more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Colorado. *** Group Monitoring and Management of Network Functions of Public Cloud-Based 5G Network ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Feb. 24 -- DISH WIRELESS L.L.C., Littleton, Colorado has been assigned a patent (No. US 12563430 B2, initially filed July 9, 2024) developed by Dawood Shahdad, Aurora, Colorado, and Kenneth William Weber, Jr., Littleton, Colorado, for "Group monitoring and management of network functions more ST

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** Techniques for Over-the-Air Software Updates ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Feb. 24 -- MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart, Germany has been assigned a patent (No. US 12561127 B2, initially filed April 28, 2023) developed by four inventors Movses Babayan, Monroe, Washington; James Shimada, Seattle, Washington; Liang Chen, Kirkland, Washington; and Lifang Pilarski, Gechingen, Germany, for "Techniques f more ST