News from October 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: I am pleased to rise today to support H.R. 3080: “the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013." This legislation provides important direction to the Army Corps of Engineers to meet its mission objectives and reform their planning and construction processes while also investing in our water transportation infrastructure and creating jobs.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing next week to examine the effects of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory actions on jobs and local communities particularly reliant upon the coal. The hearing on “EPA’s...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Patchogue, NY - The National Park Service (NPS) has extended the public comment period for an environmental assessment (EA) that proposes to dredge the existing navigational channels and their associated marinas and docking facilities at three sites on Fire Island. The closing date for the comments about...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Kenneth Matthews, 36, of Newport News was sentenced today to 264 months in prison for his participation in a drug conspiracy and for being an accessory after the fact to murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of a superseding indictment charging Edwaldo Louis Oliveiri (22, Tampa) with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine, possession of a firearm by a user of a controlled...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) today formally introduced bipartisan legislation to modernize and reform the approval process for energy infrastructure projects that cross the borders of the United States. At the time of introduction, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Indiana County, Pa., has been sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years supervised release for his conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Jared Thomas Bowers and Christopher Thomas Mejia, both residents of Anchorage, have been sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for their convictions of the crimes of drug trafficking conspiracy, attempted possession of heroin...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) raid on a gold mine in Chicken, Alaska earlier this year. The raid was conducted to investigate alleged Clean Water Act violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has scheduled a National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day for Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) today formally introduced bipartisan legislation to modernize and reform the approval process for energy infrastructure projects that cross the borders of the United States. At the time of introduction, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Pleads Guilty To $1.2 Million Wire Fraud And Tax Evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada announces new dates for the close of the public comment or protest periods for four environmental impact statements:.
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, made the following remarks at a Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) panel regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: “Like most other mariners, I grew up on NOAA lithographic charts and have used them for years," said Rear Admiral Gerd Glang, director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. “We know that changing chart formats and availability will be a difficult change for some mariners who love their traditional paper charts, but we’re still going to provide other forms of our official charts."
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night-so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing next week to examine the effects of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory actions on jobs and local communities particularly reliant upon the coal. The hearing on “EPA’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Neeley Organized Trips to Tennessee and Florida “Pill Mills".
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, along with U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez, and Delta Regional Authority Federal Co-Chairman Chris Masingill, today announced the 10 winners of the Make it in America Challenge, an Obama Administration initiative to accelerate job creation and encourage...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2013
News Release: Thomas Rafferty, 67 of Levittown, PA was charged today by Indictment with three counts of employing a minor to create an image of the minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, five counts of creating obscene visual representations of children, and one count of possession of images of child pornography announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
