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Press Room

See below for news stories, press releases, and topics of interest in weights and measures. 

Spot checks of oil delivery trucks in Boston. - November 2, 2020 (MA)
Dimensional weight: How it works and how to cut costs. - October 8, 2020 (Webretailer.com)
County weights and measures inspectors protect credit card users from skimmer fraud. - September 12, 2020 (CA)
America has two feet. It’s about to lose one of them. - August 18, 2020 (NY)
How much alcohol do you really need in hand sanatizer? - July 31, 2020 (Forbes)
Credit card fraud increases at Central Coast gas stations. - July 31, 2020 (CA)
NIST Awards $50 Million in Funding to Help Manufacturers Respond to the Pandemic. - July 8, 2020 (MD)
Keeping Time at NIST. - June 23, 2020 (MD)
Pathfinder for COVID-19. - June 8, 2020 (NASA)
International Space Station Spacewalk. - July 1, 2020 (NASA)
How can NIST Help: Collaborating at a Distance to Defeat COVID-19. - June 16, 2020 (MD)
NASA's ICESat-2 measures Arctic Oceans's sea ice thickness, snow cover. - May 12, 2020 (NASA)
Women in Manufacturing. - March 12, 2020 (MD)
DATCP touts accuracty during Weights and Measures Week. - March 3, 2020 (WI)
Colorado celebrates Weights and Measures Week. - March 3, 2020 (CO)
For the last time: The difference between weight and mass. - March 3, 2020 (LA)
March 1-7 named Maryland Weights and Measures Week. - March 2, 2020 (MD)
Hogan proclaimed March 1-7 named Maryland Weights and Measures Week. - February 29, 2020 (MD)
The Vara: A standard of length with a non-so-standard history. - February 28, 2020 (MD)
Delaware consumers protected by work of weights and measures inspectors. - February 28, 2020 (DE)
How low can you go? Lower than ever before. - February 26, 2020 (MD)
NCWM Announces Weights and Measures Week: March 1-7, 2020. - February 25, 2020 (NCWM)

New mobile fuelling service could cut time and costs for fleets. - November 19, 2019 (U.K.)
Tipping the scale: Why your luggage may cost you big time. - November 19, 2020 (AZ)
Problems at the pump. - November 12, 2019 (WI)
Firewood consumers are encouraged to know the law. - October 30, 2019 (NM)
New regulation is cracking down on THF 303. - October 22, 2019 (IA)
Oh my gourd! 2,175-pound pumpkin sets new record in Half Moon Bay. - October 15, 2019 (CA)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day Proclaimation. - October 8, 2019 (CO)
Home heating oil cool facts. - October 6, 2019 (PA)
Standards through time: Changing to stay the same. - September 22, 2019 (CA)
World’s heaviest grapefruit is in Louisiana; Guinness World Record awarded. - August 28, 2019 (LA)
How to measure the dimensions of objects on an iPhone using its augmented-reality Measure app, or turn your phone into a level. - August 26, 2019
Reader wonders if he's paying too much for gas; he may have paid too little. - August 13, 2019 (NE)
Erie County to boost consumer protection efforts with revamped division. - August 5, 2019 (NY)
Man of a measure: State sealer Anthony Goes is a name known to many in South County. - April 12, 2019 (RI)
Consumer gas pumps, scales get passing grades in 2018. - March 11, 2019 (WI)
Why we have weights and measures. - March 1, 2019 (PA)
Celebrating National Weights and Measures Week in Contra Costa County. - February 28, 2019 (CA)
NCWM Announces Weights and Measures Week: March 1-7, 2019. - February 27, 2019 (NCWM)
Keeping gas pumps honest: How you can trust you're getting a gallon. - February 7, 2019 (IL)
New type of gas pump skimmer spotted in Twin Tiers. - February 5, 2019 (NY)