WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: BOSTON (Nov. 15, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its issuance of draft Clean Air Act Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) air quality permit for Southcoast Wind LLC. The permit proposes to allow for the construction and operation of the source within the "wind development area," located in federal waters south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. EPA's propose  more

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov. 16 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following remarks on Nov. 14, 2024, by Governor Adriana D. Kugler: * * * Central Bank Independence and the Conduct of Monetary Policy Governor Adriana D. Kugler At the Albert Hirschman Lecture, 2024 Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Econometric Society, Montevideo, Uruguay * * * I believe I am the first central banker from the U.S. to addr  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Nov. 16 -- Hawaii Attorney General Anne E. Lopez issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: Attorney General Anne Lopez and a bipartisan coalition of 46 attorneys general is calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to improve its Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) and close what has effectively been an unmonitored loophole that bad actors exploit to access the U.S. telephone network. "While we work to identify and reduce the amount of illegal robocalls   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Pharmaceutical company QOL Medical LLC (QOL) and its co-owner and CEO, Frederick E. Cooper, have agreed to pay $47 million to resolve allegations that they caused the submission of false claims to federal health care programs, in violation of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes, by offering kickbacks in the form of free Carbon-13 breath testing services to induce claims for QOL's drug Sucraid.   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following news release: The Honorable Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will deliver the principal address at the commissioning ceremony. Remarks will also be provided by The Honorable Bill Keating, U.S. Representative, Massachusetts 9th District, The Honorable Meredith Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Vice Admiral Michael Boyle, Director of Navy Staff, The Honorable Mich  more