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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

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 ...

May 13, 2024 / EPA Air Quality

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 ...

May 13, 2024 / 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

Governo Biden-Harris anuncia US$ 3 bilhões para substituição de tubos de chumbo para promover água potável segura como parte da agenda de investimento nos Estados Unidos

Governo Biden-Harris anuncia US$ 3 bilhões para substituição de tubos de chumbo para promover água potável segura como parte da agenda de ...

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 $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

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

NIST hosts meeting of O-RAN Alliance security experts

NIST's Wireless Networks Division , in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence , hosted an interim meeting of the O-RAN ...

May 6, 2024 / 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

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

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

#StopRansomware: Black Basta

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

May 10, 2024 / 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

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

Natural gas-fired electricity generation in Texas set winter record in January 2024

In-brief analysis May 16, 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid MonitorNote: ERCOT=Electric Reliability Council of Texas; CT=central time ...

May 16, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Higher refining costs could increase summer gasoline prices

In-brief analysis May 15, 2024 Average monthly prices for regular-grade retail gasoline in the United States could increase by more than 10 ...

May 15, 2024 / US Energy Information Administration

Russia’s seaborne diesel trading partners shifted after Feb 2023 sanctions

In-brief analysis May 13, 2024 Data source: VortexaNote: Shipments with no recorded destination are included in all other countries. In 2023, Brazil ...

May 13, 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 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

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 ...