News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that the federal Grand Jury has indicted a North Pole man on a charge of theft of mail for embezzling prescription drugs from the United States Mail.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: "Insect Herbivore Pest Management with Chemical Ecology" is the subject of James H. Tumlinson's 2015 ARS Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecture, which he delivered today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) annual meeting in Boston.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: A leader of a Little Haiti based drug trafficking organization and identity theft tax fraud scheme pled guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Donald L. Graham.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Arrests Bring to 18 Defendants Charged in a Series of Recent Prosecutions of Cargo Handlers Stealing Mail at JFK and LaGuardia Airports.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposal for limiting methane from the oil and natural gas industry. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in response.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Jeremy Arthur Bolish, 48, of Missoula, Montana, pleaded guilty today to failure to register as a convicted sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Bolish was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on May 19, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: NEWS RELEASE. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Man Charged in District Court with Firearm Offenses. St. Thomas, USVI - Tashimo Scatliffe, 33, made his initial appearance in District Court Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged with two counts of Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated...

By DOL Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Peco Pallet Inc., a pallet repair and rental company, located at 1104 North Park Drive in Hazelton, Pennsylvania
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new standards to cut dangerous methane pollution from the oil and gas sector. It is part of the Obama Administration's Climate Action Plan to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40-45 percent by 2025 from 2012 levels.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II has sentenced Jean Roussel Eloi (30, Palm Bay) to 30 years in federal prison for Internet solicitation of a minor. The court also ordered Eloi to forfeit a cell phone that he had used as part of the offense. A federal jury found him guilty on Feb. 3, 2015.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement in response to the EPA’s proposed regulations relating to cutting methane emissions associated with oil and natural gas production.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on a draft policy for Peer Review of Scientific Information. It establishes Reclamation's policy for review of scientific information. It is available for review at www.usbr.gov/recman.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement in response to the EPA’s proposed regulations relating to cutting methane emissions associated with oil and natural gas production.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is hosting an interactive workshop on developing commercial-scale renewable energy projects on tribal lands Sept. 1-3, 2015, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Tremayne Kirby Faces Minimum of 15 Years in Prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: WHO: U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr.; Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange;. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ASAC Clay Morris; Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) RAC William Bass; Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal. Thomas Hession; Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey;.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Burton Gersh, 69, and Les Sidweber, 73, both of Cherry Hill, NJ, were sentenced today for production of child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced Gersh to 60 months in prison and Sidweber to 48 months in prison. The defendants pleaded guilty on May 19, 2015.

By US DOT Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: A recent software upgrade is identified as source of Saturday's automation problems.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The United States reached a settlement today with Northeastern University resolving allegations that, over a period of nine years, Northeastern failed to properly account for federal research funds that it received from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF awarded the funds to support...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2015
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore will exhibit works from dune shack visits and residencies as its Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art continues in September. The exhibition is curated by the Peaked Hill Trust, which offers arts and sciences residencies at dune shacks it operates under its permit with Cape Cod National Seashore.