WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news on Aug. 10, 2023: By David Vergun, DOD News One year ago, President Joe Biden signed a law that expands Department of Veterans Affairs health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits, Agent Orange and other toxic substances. Today, Biden marked the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, or PACT Act, in a speech to veterans and their families, state leader  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2023: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $248,000 in Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grant program funding to help Utah communities address stormwater and sewer infrastructure needs. States may now apply for grant assistance to fund projects that will help municipalities strengthen their wastewater and stormwater collection systems agains  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: A Utah man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his bias-motivated attack of three men at a family-owned business. On Feb. 19, 2020, after a five day trial, a jury in Salt Lake City convicted Alan Covington for attacking three men with a metal pole because he believed the men were Mexican. According to evidence presented at trial, on  more

MOAB, Utah, Aug. 12 -- The National Park Service Canyonlands National Park issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: Canyonlands National Park and Hovenweep National Monument will restore riparian ecosystems and partner with associated Tribes with $60,000 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Another project awarded with nearly $1.6M will assess the climate change vulnerability of water supplies in many national parks affected by drought, including Arches and Canyonlands natio  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: * * * Tapping seismic data, research shows solid metal sphere is planet within a planet * * * At the center the Earth is a solid metal ball, a kind of "planet within a planet," whose existence makes life on the surface possible. How Earth's inner core formed, grew and evolved over time remains a mystery, one that U.S. National Science Foundation-supported University of Utah-led researchers are  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 11 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on Aug. 10, 2023, on the one-year anniversary of the PACT Act: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) Please, have a -- take a seat if you have one. Sarge, thank you for that introduction. You know, it's important for two reasons. One, I have been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan over 38 times. And I don't think most people know -- this audience may know -- how many women we have in combat, how many  more

SAN DIEGO, California, Aug. 12 (TNScapv) -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California issued the following news release: Danny Lamar Miller-Kidd was sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison for his leadership role in a Baja California-based drug trafficking organization that imported and distributed hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin to various sub-distributors throughout the United States, including California, Arizona, Or  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center issued the following news: Carlos Braceras, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), and Paula Hammond, Chair of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and Senior Vice President at WSP USA joined U.S. DOT's August 3 thought leadership event on "Thinking Outside the Box: Innovating for Better Project Delivery," the  more