News from July 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. -The Bureau of Land Management announced today, the deferral of five parcels within San Miguel, Dolores and Montrose counties associated with the February 2014 oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Nelson Alanis-Alanis, 29, of Palmview, has been handed a significant sentence following his conviction for possession with intent to distribute approximately 96 kilograms of marijuana, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Alanis-Alanis pleaded guilty on April 19, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today examined legislative proposals to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Members reviewed discussion drafts of the FCC Process Reform...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today examined legislative proposals to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Members reviewed discussion drafts of the FCC Process Reform...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth and final white paper in a series that examines a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) are leading this effort to review the law and its implementation and are soliciting input from interested stakeholders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Anthony J. Torresi, age 34, of Coral Gables, Florida late yesterday to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully exporting night vision equipment.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Indian government has announced plans to revisit and review its protectionist Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy, welcome news just days after the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing examining the nation’s emerging discriminatory trade practices.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Indian government has announced plans to revisit and review its protectionist Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy, welcome news just days after the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing examining the nation’s emerging discriminatory trade practices.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed for cloture on President Obama’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and his nominee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Omoruyi Ogbeide, of Knoxville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to aggravated identity theft. The charge carries a mandatory penalty of two years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Jermaine Coleman, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with three counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JAMES LEE LOMAN, 70, of McLoud, Oklahoma, a former Item Manager at Tinker Air Force Base, was convicted today on charges of conspiring to commit wire fraud, accepting bribes, and participating in government contracting under an illegal conflict of interest, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today continued its examination of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) with a focus on “Regulation of New Chemicals, Protection of Confidential Business Information, and Innovation." Today’s hearing built on the subcommittee’s June 13 hearing on TSCA Title I and focused on two key areas of the law: the regulation of new chemicals and the protection of proprietary business information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Donald E. Bruce, 74, of Elberfeld, Indiana, was arraigned today in United States District Court in Benton on an indictment charging him with escaping from the Federal Prison Camp at Marion, Illinois, 13 years ago, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: The twenty-first annual "Haunting in the Hills" Storytelling Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 21, in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area at Bandy Creek. The day's events will feature storytelling, craft demonstrations, workshops and sales of craft items, afternoon storytelling...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Indian government has announced plans to revisit and review its protectionist Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy, welcome news just days after the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing examining the nation’s emerging discriminatory trade practices.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today continued its examination of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) with a focus on “Regulation of New Chemicals, Protection of Confidential Business Information, and Innovation." Today’s hearing built on the subcommittee’s June 13 hearing on TSCA Title I and focused on two key areas of the law: the regulation of new chemicals and the protection of proprietary business information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Today, United States District Judge Anne Aiken sentenced Willard Bryan Wilhelm, 34, of Crook County, Oregon, to two and one-half years in prison and three years of supervision after his release from prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition after being convicted in an Oregon court of the misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said the President’s signature domestic policy achievement - ObamaCare - was not ready for primetime should be permanently delayed for all Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
