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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

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Air Quality

EPA–Air Quality

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 ...

July 25, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

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 ...

July 9, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

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 ...

July 3, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

NIST Study Probes the Damaging Effects of Radiation on Qubits

Qubits, the fundamental unit of quantum information, form the building blocks of quantum computers. Because qubits are not limited to the two ...

November 19, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Melissa Midzor Named Director of NIST’s Communications Technology Laboratory

The lab focuses on advancing communications technology through research and development in core network technologies, next-generation wireless systems, public safety communications, smart ...

November 18, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

The Future is Open: What is OpenRAN and How NIST is Helping

The future of your mobile network is faster, more cost effective, more intelligent, and more secure—one that breaks free from the limitations ...

November 13, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Participates in First Workshop on Zero Trust Architecture in Mobile Networks

CTL staff Scott Rose, Oliver Borchert, and Doug Montgomery participated in the first joint O-RAN / 3GPP workshop on the standardization of ...

November 5, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST CTL Contributes to National Spectrum Research and Development Plan Priorities

On November 13, 2023, President Biden recognized radio frequency spectrum as one of the nation's most critical natural resources, calling for a ...

October 31, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Broadens Collaboration with BIPM to Enhance Voltage Standards

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has expanded its comparison program with the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) ...

October 24, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

2023 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

Summary The following cybersecurity agencies coauthored this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (hereafter collectively referred to as the authoring agencies): United States: The Cybersecurity ...

November 8, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Microsoft Releases October 2024 Security Updates

Microsoft released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take ...

October 8, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Iranian Cyber Actors’ Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure Organizations

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Communications Security ...

September 30, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

What’s driving decreasing gasoline consumption in China?

In-brief analysis November 20, 2024 Data source: China National Bureau of Statistics, China General Administration of Customs, and Bloomberg L.P.Note: We define ...

November 20, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Northwest U.S. and western Canadian natural gas prices trade at historic lows in 2024

In-brief analysis November 19, 2024 Data source: Natural Gas IntelligenceNote: Prices are adjusted for inflation based on September 2024 Bureau of Labor ...

November 19, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Grid infrastructure investments drive increase in utility spending over last two decades

In-brief analysis November 18, 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Financial Reports, as accessed by ...

November 18, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

EPA–Energy

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 ...

July 12, 2024 / EPA Energy

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, ...

May 21, 2024 / EPA Energy

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