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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

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 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

EPA Announces $84 Million Great Lakes Cleanup Project in Rouge River Near Detroit to Begin in April

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the start of dredging in the Lower Rouge River Old Channel near Detroit, Michigan. Sediments in ...

April 16, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Critical Action to Protect 100 Million People from PFAS Pollution in Drinking Water

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Last week, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the first-ever national drinking water standard to protect ...

April 16, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

NIST Researcher Presents Simulation-Based Approach to Assess Condition Monitoring-Enabled Maintenance in Manufacturing

At the 2023 International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS) in Bologna, Italy, NIST researcher Mehdi Dadfarnia presented research findings that ...

March 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Automated Vehicles Team Visits Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to Discuss Collaborative Efforts

On February 28-29, 2024, the NIST Automated Vehicles team , representing multiple NIST laboratories, visited the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) site ...

March 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Contributes to New Modeling Capability in ISO Product Data Interoperability Standard

In January 2024, NIST researchers Allison Barnard Feeney and Rosemary Astheimer worked with Ben Urick (nVariate) and Thomas Thurman (TRThurman Consulting) to ...

March 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Researchers Present to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Systems Analysis Integration

NIST’s Systems Analysis Integration (SAI) project was invited to present its research to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Systems Engineering Solutions ...

March 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Last Chance to Register for Virtual Participation in NIST Named Data Networking Community Meeting

NIST is hosting the Named Data Networking (NDN) Community Meeting 2024 as a hybrid meeting on March 6-7, 2024. NDNComm provides a ...

March 1, 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

Cyber-security

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

SVR Cyber Actors Adapt Tactics for Initial Cloud Access

How SVR-Attributed Actors are Adapting to the Move of Government and Corporations to Cloud Infrastructure OVERVIEW This advisory details recent tactics, techniques, ...

February 23, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Threat Actors Exploit Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways

SUMMARY The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the following partners (hereafter referred to as the authoring organizations) are releasing this ...

February 21, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

U.S. coal-fired electricity generation decreased in 2022 and 2023

In-brief analysis May 10, 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor Note: The chart series reflects the average ...

May 10, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Propane prices were slightly lower this winter compared with last winter

In-depth analysis May 9, 2024 Data source: Thomson Reuters U.S. wholesale and retail propane prices were slightly lower on average this winter ...

May 9, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

U.S. West Coast refinery demand for hydrogen increasingly met by merchant suppliers

In-brief analysis May 7, 2024 U.S. West Coast refiners are using more hydrogen purchased from merchant suppliers than from their own production ...

May 7, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

EPA–Energy

EPA and DEC Launch Statewide Environmental Justice Listening Tour

NEW YORK (April 5, 2024) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today ...

April 5, 2024 / EPA Energy

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $20 Billion in Grants to Mobilize Private Capital and Deliver Clean Energy and Climate Solutions to Communities Across America

NEW YORK - Today, April 4, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its selections for $20 billion in grant awards under two competitions ...

April 4, 2024 / EPA Energy

EPA Launches New Website to Improve Transparency in Permitting

WASHINGTON – Today, April 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing the launch of a new website, epa.gov/permits, a centralized web-based ...

April 2, 2024 / EPA Energy

Transporation

NIST–Transporation

GCTC Smart City Projects Presented at Smart Cities Conference and Workshop

On November 28, 2023, the NIST Global Community Technology Challenge ( GCTC ) presented three smart city projects on a panel at ...

December 1, 2023 / NIST Transportation

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