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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 $124M to Deliver Residential Solar, Lowering Energy Costs and Advancing Environmental Justice Across Alaska

SEATTLE (April 23, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Alaska Energy Authority and the Tanana Chiefs Conference have each ...

April 23, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

Biden-Harris Administration announces $198 million to deliver residential solar in North Dakota, lowering energy costs and advancing Environmental Justice

BISMARCK, N.D. - Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced The Coalition for Green ...

April 22, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

EPA Region 4 Marks Earth Day at the Historic Westside Gardens in Atlanta

ATLANTA (April 22, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 marked Earth Day at the Historic Westside Gardens ...

April 22, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

Biden-Harris Administration announces Bonneville Environmental Foundation to receive $30.2 million to deliver residential solar in Wyoming, lowering energy costs and advancing Environmental Justice

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Bonneville Environmental Foundation has ...

April 22, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Critical Rule to Clean up PFAS Contamination to Protect Public Health

WASHINGTON – Today, April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another step in its efforts to protect people ...

April 19, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

$15 million construction project for the Commerce Street Plume Superfund Site slated to start this summer

WILLISTON, Vt. (April 17, 2024) – Starting this summer, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VTDEC), with EPA oversight, will break ground ...

April 17, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

2024 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA)

Join us for a co-hosted event with the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee, and the IEEE Synthetic ...

April 26, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

The Big Quantum Chill: NIST Scientists Modify Common Lab Refrigerator to Cool Faster With Less Energy

By modifying a refrigerator commonly used in both research and industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have ...

April 23, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

MBE & QIF Summit 2024

The MBE Summit has brought academia, government, and industry experts together for over 10 years to share the challenges, implementation issues, and ...

April 16, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Spotlight: Building the Next Generation of Quantum Computers and Networks With Tasshi Dennis

When NIST scientist Tasshi Dennis first encountered quantum physics as a student, he was skeptical it would ever amount to any practical ...

April 15, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Balloting of IEEE 3388 Standard for the Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems

The IEEE draft standard, P3388 , titled “Standard for the Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems,” has been submitted for IEEE Standards ...

March 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Researchers Publish New Libraries for SysPyS Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing

NIST published Physical Component Libraries for SysPhS Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing , a NIST interagency report (NIST IR 8490) by Charlie ...

March 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Delta Electronics CNCSoft-G2 DOPSoft

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.5 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: Delta Electronics Equipment: CNCSoft-G2 DOPSoft Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow ...

April 30, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

#StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware

SUMMARY Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail ...

April 17, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

#StopRansomware: Phobos Ransomware

SUMMARY Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ransomware ...

February 26, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

Plant Vogtle Unit 4 begins commercial operation

In-brief analysis May 1, 2024 Georgia Power announced this week that the 1,114-megawatt (MW) Unit 4 nuclear power reactor at Plant Vogtle ...

May 1, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Wind generation declined in 2023 for the first time since the 1990s

In-brief analysis April 30, 2024 U.S. electricity generation from wind turbines decreased for the first time since the mid-1990s in 2023 despite ...

April 30, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions decreased by 3% in 2023

In-brief analysis April 29, 2024 Based on analysis in our most recent U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions report, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions ...

April 29, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

EPA–Energy

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 ...

April 8, 2024 / EPA Energy

EPA Proposes Plan to Address Contamination in Buildings at the Meeker Avenue Plume Superfund Site in Brooklyn

NEW YORK (April 5, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a plan to protect people living and working ...

April 5, 2024 / EPA Energy

Pacific Northwest federal, state agencies to collaborate on prescribed fire, smoke management to confront wildfire crisis

SEATTLE (April 5, 2024) – State and federal agencies and departments in Oregon and Washington have agreed to collaborate on addressing the ...

April 5, 2024 / EPA Energy

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Critical Infrastructure News

Air Quality

EPA–Air Quality

EPA Announces $124M to Deliver Residential Solar, Lowering Energy Costs and Advancing Environmental Justice Across Alaska

Biden-Harris Administration announces $198 million to deliver residential solar in North Dakota, lowering energy costs and advancing Environmental Justice

EPA Region 4 Marks Earth Day at the Historic Westside Gardens in Atlanta

Biden-Harris Administration announces Bonneville Environmental Foundation to receive $30.2 million to deliver residential solar in Wyoming, lowering energy costs and advancing Environmental Justice

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Critical Rule to Clean up PFAS Contamination to Protect Public Health

$15 million construction project for the Commerce Street Plume Superfund Site slated to start this summer

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

2024 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA)

The Big Quantum Chill: NIST Scientists Modify Common Lab Refrigerator to Cool Faster With Less Energy

MBE & QIF Summit 2024

Spotlight: Building the Next Generation of Quantum Computers and Networks With Tasshi Dennis

Balloting of IEEE 3388 Standard for the Performance Assessment of Industrial Wireless Systems

NIST Researchers Publish New Libraries for SysPyS Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Delta Electronics CNCSoft-G2 DOPSoft

#StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware

#StopRansomware: Phobos Ransomware

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

Energy

US Energy Information Administration

Plant Vogtle Unit 4 begins commercial operation

Wind generation declined in 2023 for the first time since the 1990s

U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions decreased by 3% in 2023

EPA–Energy

EPA Awards $1.275M to Advance Resilience in Disadvantaged Communities

EPA Proposes Plan to Address Contamination in Buildings at the Meeker Avenue Plume Superfund Site in Brooklyn

Pacific Northwest federal, state agencies to collaborate on prescribed fire, smoke management to confront wildfire crisis

Transporation

NIST–Transporation

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

NIST Hosts Colloquium Speaker on Autonomous Vehicles

GCTC Smart City Projects Presented at Smart Cities Conference and Workshop