News from July 2015
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today unanimously approved a draft of its long-awaited energy package, an effort to modernize our laws to reflect America’s energy abundance and take full advantage of our potential to be an energy superpower in the 21st century.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Tammie Lynn Cline (33, Leominster, MA) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud for her role in the operation of a boiler room. She faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Sentencing has been set for October 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has returned an Indictment late yesterday, charging David Sandy Lee Parks, age 59, of Connecticut, with committing two bank robberies.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Leaders Concerned with Burdens and Costs Associated with EPA's Regulatory Gambit
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Royce issued this statement following a Tuesday meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - One minute he was working in the 8-foot trench below ground. The next, he was being buried in it. His co-workers came to his rescue, digging him out with their bare hands. Moments after they pulled the injured man to safety, the unprotected trench collapsed again. His injuries were serious and led to his hospitalization.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Senate Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a markup on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider the following three bills...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015 with a bipartisan vote of 258 to 166. The bipartisan legislation was introduced by Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) and is a culmination of the committee’s bipartisan, bicameral work from previous Congresses to improve the regulatory framework by putting states in charge of implementing coal ash rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Robert M. Hertz, age 51, of 2418 Catskill Street SW, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, pleaded guilty today to one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S House of Representatives today approved H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015 with a bipartisan vote of 258 to 166. The bipartisan legislation was introduced by Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) and is a culmination of the committee’s bipartisan, bicameral work from previous Congresses to improve the regulatory framework by putting states in charge of implementing coal ash rules.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today issued the following statement after the Committee voted to advance a bipartisan tax extenders bill by a vote of 23 to 3...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Raymond, 33, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 39 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Rashion Michaels, 24, of Philadelphia, was charged today by indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on May 20, 2014, Michaels was in possession of a Lorcin, Model L32, 32 caliber semi-automatic pistol, with an obliterated serial number that was restored to read: 006347, and a magazine loaded with 6 live rounds of.32 caliber ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Victor H. Orozco, 40, of Grandview, Wash., was sentenced on July 20 by U.S. District Judge Miranda M. Du to 16 years in prison and five years of supervised release for possessing with the intent to distribute more than 24 pounds of methamphetamine and heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 21, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $349 million in funding for 15 rural electric infrastructure projects to build or improve more than 1,844 miles of transmission and distribution lines for rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 13 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: Three family members were indicted for their alleged participation in a scheme to defraud Miami-area lenders and the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: A former New York businessman, who disappeared the same day a federal jury sitting in the U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, began deliberating in his tax evasion and fraud trial, was caught while in Greece more than 18 years after his conviction, and appeared in federal court in the District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division announced today that it will close its investigation into AT&T’s proposed $48 billion acquisition of DirecTV.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 21, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: China Construction Bank Corporation, Beijing, People's Republic of China, and China Construction Bank New York Branch (PDF), New York, New York Written Agreement dated July 16, 2015 The Federal Reserve Board ...
