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Critical Infrastructure News

This page includes news feeds about critical infrastructure to help ground resilience theory and concepts in real-world applications and current events. Excerpts from the RSS news feeds are updated every two hours as new articles are published. In addition to ‘Headlines’ featuring related current events, the following critical infrastructure sectors are represented:

  • Air Quality: Environmental Protection Agency
  • Communications: National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Cyber-Security: U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and ThreatPost
  • Energy: U.S. Energy Information Administration
  • Transportation: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Click the tabs and pages to review the excerpts. Click on the ‘Read More’ link for more detailed information and to access a link to the source website. Please contact us to recommend news feeds for other critical infrastructure sectors.

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Air Quality

EPA–Air Quality

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Announces More Than $20 Million in Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants in Ohio

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced The MetroHealth System and The Trust for Public Land in Ohio will receive $17,191,775 and $3,000,000 ...
/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Issues Cleanup Plan for Shaffer Equipment Superfund Site in Minden, West Virginia

PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) that addresses a source of contaminated soil at ...
/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Fines Two Oahu Nurseries over Federal Worker Protection Standard Violations

SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements of two cases involving agricultural worker protection, one with Olomana ...
/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

Puerto Rico recibirá $28.6 millones para reemplazar tuberías de plomo para lograr agua potable segura

Puerto Rico recibirá $28.6 millones para reemplazar tuberías de plomo para lograr agua potable segura La EPA anuncia la última ronda de ...
/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

Puerto Rico to Get $28.6 Million for Lead Pipe Replacement to Advance Safe Drinking Water

NEW YORK  – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $28.6 million from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help Puerto ...
/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Announces More Than $240 Million for Illinois Lead Pipe Replacement to Advance Safe Drinking Water as Part of the Biden-Harris Administration Investing in America Agenda

CHICAGO (May 2, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $240,899,000 from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help Illinois ...
/ EPA Air Quality

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

National Institute of Standards and Technology News

Tiny New Lasers Fill a Long-Standing Gap in the Rainbow of Visible-Light Colors, Opening New Applications

Researchers have created orange, yellow and green lasers tiny enough to fit on a chip ...
/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Call for Presentations Open

Planning for the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit at MxD in Chicago on April 15-17, 2025, is underway. NIST and the Digital ...
/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST Participates in White House Summit on Standards for Critical and Emerging Technology

A new Implementation Roadmap provides recommendations and actions for putting the U.S. standards strategy into effect ...
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST Leads U.S. Delegation to Singapore World Cities Summit

On 02-06 June 2024, the NIST Smart Cities program lead, Dr. Michael Dunaway, led a U.S. delegation to the World Cities Summit ...
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST Researchers Present Tutorial on Discrete-Event Manufacturing Simulation Using Open-Source SimPROCESD Environment

At the 2024 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) in Washington, DC, NIST researchers Serghei Drozdov and Mehdi Dadfarnia gave a 90-minute ...
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST to Host Technical Language Processing Virtual Workshop on 24-25 September 2024

NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Technical Language Processing on 24-25 September 2024. Online registration is $33.00 USD and is available ...

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure

Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors ...
#StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware

#StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware

Summary Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ...
Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) ...
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Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

Energy Information Administration News

Batteries are a fast-growing secondary electricity source for the grid

In-brief analysis September 5, 2024 Utility-scale battery energy storage systems have been growing quickly as a source of electric power capacity in ...
Energy Information Administration News

U.S. thermal coal exports to Asia and Africa surge as shipments to Europe fall

In-brief analysis September 4, 2024 U.S. exports of thermal coal to Asia and Africa surged in the first half of 2024, helping ...
Energy Information Administration News

North America’s LNG export capacity is on track to more than double by 2028

In-brief analysis September 3, 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Liquefaction Capacity File, and trade pressNote: Export capacity shown is project's ...
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EPA–Energy

Environmental Protection Agency

OMG Partners of Turlock, Calif. Penalized $140,000 for Fuel Spill that Reached San Francisco Bay

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a proposed settlement with OMG Partners of Turlock, Calif. to resolve claims ...
/ EPA Energy
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA settles with Massachusetts solar company for Construction General Permit violations

BOSTON (May 21, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with Navisun, LLC, a solar energy company based in Hingham, ...
/ EPA Energy
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Awards $1.275M to Advance Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities

BOSTON (Apr. 8, 2024) – EPA's Southeast New England Program (SNEP) is announcing funding to improve climate resiliency in disadvantaged communities throughout ...
/ EPA Energy
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Transporation

NIST–Transporation

NIST Researcher Engages Automotive Stakeholders at SAE World Congress Experience (WCX) 2024

The SAE World Congress Experience (WCX) 2024 was held on April 16–18, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. The event attracts researchers, government officials, ...
/ NIST Transportation

CHIPS R&D National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) Advanced Packaging Summit

The National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) and NASA Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley are co-hosting an Advanced Packaging Summit ...
/ NIST Transportation