News from July 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Many of Alaska’s nutritionally and economically valuable marine fisheries are located in waters that are already experiencing ocean acidification, and will see more in the near future, the study shows. Communities in southeast and southwest Alaska face the highest risk from ocean acidification because...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, praised the Senate's bipartisan passage of the surface transportation extension.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on tobacco taxation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House and Senate committee leaders are seeking insights on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from all 50 governors.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Pitts: “Despite repeated warnings about the fiscal future of Medicare, each year we are reminded that this important social safety net will soon be unable to provide the care and peace of mind that seniors have been promised."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. On the second day of his federal jury trial, a Las Vegas Playboy Bloods street gang member pleaded guilty to racketeering and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada and Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Terrious Harper, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was sentenced to 84 months in prison for conspiring to distribute over 100 grams of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A husband and wife from Bergen County, New Jersey, were both sentenced today to prison for lying about their employment, income, and other financial information in order to fraudulently obtain millions in mortgages, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Nanotechnology: Understanding How Small Solutions Drive Big Innovation." Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A Mason City, Ill., man, Teddy Lee, Jr., 25, of the 400 block of S. Keefer Street, is scheduled to appear in federal court in Peoria on Aug. 6, 2014, to face charges returned by a federal grand jury last week, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. The three-count indictment charges Lee with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of a stolen firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Pitts: “Despite repeated warnings about the fiscal future of Medicare, each year we are reminded that this important social safety net will soon be unable to provide the care and peace of mind that seniors have been promised."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Cornell Clisby, 46, of Cincinnati, who led a heroin trafficking conspiracy in the greater Cincinnati area, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Mark G. Peters, Commissioner of the New York City Department of (DOI), James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner William J.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week approved three more of the committee’s bipartisan public health bills, building on a strong record of success. These bills will streamline and update the approval process for new sunscreen ingredients, help the Muscular Dystrophy community, and help combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse. Each of these bills was passed by a voice vote.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House and Senate committee leaders are seeking insights on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from all 50 governors.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: A hidden hazard may lurk*** beneath many of the roughly 156,000 gas stations across the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “FERC Perspectives: Questions Concerning EPA’s Proposed Clean Power Plan and other Grid Reliability Challenges." All five Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission testified on EPA’s proposed rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants, and how the rule would impact reliability and electricity markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raymond Lariva, 30, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to federal firearms and drug trafficking charges. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 5th Judicial District Attorney Janetta B. Hicks, Special Agent in Charge Bernard J. Zapor of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Phil Smith of the Roswell Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Hearing tomorrow at 9:30 will examine possible reforms
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Izzat M. Khalil, age 54, of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1955, which prohibits the operation of an illegal gambling...
