News from February 2013
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) will address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. at the Renaissance Washington Hotel. Whitfield will outline the subcommittee’s 2013 agenda and discuss how new federal regulations will impact the utilities sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - U.S. States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Eladio Marroquin-(31, Apopka) to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. Medina was the vice-president of JM2 Auto Sales, Inc. at 2636 Floral Avenue, Apopka, (“JM2").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: To Produce Child Pornography. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 29-year-old Forty Fort resident was sentenced today to serve 12 years in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for to attempting to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that late on Jan. 30, 2013, a federal jury in Scranton returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the United States Postal Service.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK- An article in the current issue of Ecological Monographs provides new insights about the trees in Denali National Park's vast, open landscape and how changes in climate may translate to changes across interior Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives this evening approved with bipartisa support two Energy and Commerce Committee initiatives aimed at improving children’s health care: the National Pediatric Research Network Act (H.R. 225) and the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (H.R. 297).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: The environmental analysis and review process for a proposed microwave radio antenna tower in the St. Mary area of Glacier National Park has been completed and a decision to upgrade the existing infrastructure has been made. National Park Service Intermountain Regional Director John Wessels signed the decision on Jan. 22, 2013. The environmental impacts associated with the project and consideration of public comments were part of the analysis process.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - William W. Lowery IV, 44, of Tappahannock, Va., pleaded guilty today to trafficking in illegally-harvested striped bass, in violation of the Lacey Act, announced Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Today Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led five Senators in a bipartisan letter urging President Obama not to move forward with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal for Tier 3 regulations addressing the sulfur content in gasoline, and called into question the need for Tier 3. These new regulations are discretionary, not mandated, and EPA has yet to demonstrate a need for new, stricter standards.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. at the Renaissance Washington Hotel. Walden will outline the subcommittee’s 2013 agenda and discuss how Congress can use the communications and technology sector’s success to spur economic growth and job creation.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. at the Renaissance Washington Hotel. Walden will outline the subcommittee’s 2013 agenda and discuss how Congress can use the communications and technology sector’s success to spur economic growth and job creation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Six individuals were sentenced to federal prison last week by U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas for filing false claims for tax refunds, announced Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) again called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to explain how the agency determined it had the unilateral authority to waive welfare work requirements first established in the historic 1996 welfare reform law. The Department is more than three months late in responding to their initial request.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. at the Renaissance Washington Hotel. Walden will outline the subcommittee’s 2013 agenda and discuss how Congress can use the communications and technology sector’s success to spur economic growth and job creation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that James Leroy Jensen, 59, and Robin L. Jensen, 60, residents of Cordova, Alaska, were sentenced for willfully violating federal income tax laws.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) will address the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) on Tuesday, February 5, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. at the Renaissance Washington Hotel. Whitfield will outline the subcommittee’s 2013 agenda and discuss how new federal regulations will impact the utilities sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: TUCSON - On Jan. 31, 2013, Michael A. Alvarez-Suarez, 19, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by visiting U.S. District Judge Marvin Aspen to 18 months in a federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Alvarez-Suarez pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2012, to one count of aggravated assault. Both the victim and the defendant are members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, where the altercation took place.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives this evening approved with bipartisa support two Energy and Commerce Committee initiatives aimed at improving children’s health care: the National Pediatric Research Network Act (H.R. 225) and the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act (H.R. 297).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Justin H. Knight, age 36, of Littleton, Colorado, was sentenced last Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve five years probation, with the first 12 months in home detention for shredding documents in an attempt to obstruct an investigation into a mortgage fraud scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Monday, February 4, 2013. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Christopher E. Pratt was charged Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, with defrauding his former employer, Village Market Food Centers. In a one count Felony Information, the United States...
