News from April 2015
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Access to affordable and reliable electricity allows us to cool and heat our homes and powers our economy, but EPA is threatening to restrict access to affordable energy with its proposed regulations on power plants. Under EPA’s proposed 111(d) rule for existing power plants, referred to by the agency...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Yellowstone's East Entrance is scheduled to open to travel on Friday, May 1. The park's South Entrance is set to open to the following Friday, May 8.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from operating in the produce industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID HENRY, age 31, of Covington, was sentenced today for theft of mail.
By State Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Access to affordable and reliable electricity allows us to cool and heat our homes and powers our economy, but EPA is threatening to restrict access to affordable energy with its proposed regulations on power plants. Under EPA’s proposed 111(d) rule for existing power plants, referred to by the agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Ronald McClendon, Jr., 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to five years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RONALD BACKES, age 48, of Slidell, pled guilty today to wire fraud relating to an application for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After nearly a year of listening to patients, innovators, researchers, providers, consumers, and regulators, bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have released a discussion draft marking continued progress in the 21st Century Cures initiative. On Thursday, exactly one year...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing to review child nutrition programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: A Johnson County man was sentenced today to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports almost 200 jobs in local economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement praising committee passage of S. 335, a bipartisan bill to strengthen 529 college savings plans, which was reported out of the Finance Committee unanimously...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Rodnell Griffin, 67, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the non-profit organization where she worked, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Griffin was the executive director of a non-profit organization in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Tremaine D. Cowan, 24, of Cleveland, with possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine and with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Michael Darling, age 20, and Jennifer Darling, age 27, both of Marion, Iowa, have been indicted on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, enticement of a minor, and receipt of child pornography. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on April 23, 2015, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -More than 30 Lake Mead National Recreation Area supervisors re-emphasized their commitment to employee safety April 28 by participating in the Operational Leadership for Supervisors course.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to the...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted to approve H.R. 2045, the Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters (TROL) Act, by a vote of 30 to 22. Authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), the TROL Act is a balanced and targeted solution to help stop the practice of abusive patent demand letters while protecting the rights of legitimate patent holders to protect their intellectual property.
