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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 $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 ...

May 2, 2024 / 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 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 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

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

NIST Researcher Provides Insights on Interoperability Testing Methods of Smart Sensors at 2024 Sensor Converge

NIST researcher Dr. Eugene Song provided a presentation of interoperability testing methods of smart sensors in Internet of Things (IoT)/Industrial IoT (IIoT) ...

July 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

IEEE 1451.0 – 2024 Standard Published Under Leadership of NIST Researchers

NIST researchers Eugene Song and Kang Lee chaired and led the development of the IEEE 1451.0 TM-2024 Standard for a Smart Transducer ...

July 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Hawaii MEP Tours the CTL Operational Technology Cybersecurity Laboratory

NIST researchers from the Communications Technology Laboratory's Smart Connected Systems Division recently hosted representatives from the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC), one ...

July 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Save the Date – 2025 MBE & QIF Summit April 15-17, 2025

In 2024, the MBE Summit in-person event returned and combined with the QIF Summit. The event was held from April 16-19, 2024 ...

June 25, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Publishes Automated Vehicles Workshop Report

NIST held a virtual workshop in September 2023 on Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Automated Vehicles, attracting over 600 attendees from ...

June 4, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

NIST Industrial Wireless Team Leads Special Session on Performance Assurance of Industrial Wireless Systems

In May 2024, the NIST Industrial Wireless Team led by Rick Candell organized and chaired a special session on Performance Assurance of ...

June 1, 2024 / NIST Advanced Communications

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

North Korea Cyber Group Conducts Global Espionage Campaign to Advance Regime’s Military and Nuclear Programs

Summary The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the following authoring partners are releasing this Cybersecurity Advisory to highlight cyber espionage ...

July 24, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

CISA Red Team’s Operations Against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch Organization Highlights the Necessity of Defense-in-Depth

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In early 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted a SILENTSHIELD red team assessment against a Federal Civilian ...

July 9, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of State Security APT40 Tradecraft in Action

Overview Background This advisory, authored by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...

July 8, 2024 / US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

Natural gas-fired electricity generation increased during heat waves in New England

In-brief analysis August 27, 2024 Electricity generation using fossil fuels increased in New England to meet the additional air-conditioning demand during heat ...

August 27, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

U.S. share of electric and hybrid vehicle sales increased in the second quarter of 2024

In-brief analysis August 26, 2024 Data source: Wards IntelligenceNote: EV=electric vehicles, which include both battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles The ...

August 26, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Midwest refinery outages increase regional gasoline prices

In-brief analysis August 22, 2024 A series of refinery outages in Chicago and Ohio have generally increased Midwest prices for petroleum products ...

August 22, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

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

EPA, Congresswoman Summer Lee Kick Off Earth Month with Pittsburgh ‘EcoStewards’

(PITTSBURGH) April 2, 2024 – Today, EPA Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz and Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) visited the Environmental Charter School (ECS) ...

April 2, 2024 / EPA Energy

Transporation

NIST–Transporation

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