News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 15, 2015 - Today, U.S. Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT), Chairman, House Committee on Natural Resources, and U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy on the Obama...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Beginning today, the public will have the opportunity to review and comment on the preliminary recommendations for the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) Round 15 expenditures. Written comments will be accepted until July 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - During June 10-20, 2015, a group of official delegates from the Republic of Georgia will visit the United States to learn about the U.S. criminal justice system and enhance their efforts to modernize their justice sector/system. The visit will begin in Washington, DC, where the delegates...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) license of ABI Imports Inc., Pittsgrove, N.J., for failing to make its records available for review.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A leader of the Imperial Gangsters street gang was sentenced today to life in prison for five counts of murder in aid of racketeering and other RICO-related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David A. Capp of the Northern District of Indiana.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Tucson,Ariz., June 15, 2015 - For Immediate Release.Saguaro National Park, the Coronado National Forest, and the Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center are the recipients of Resilient Landscape Program (RLP) funding from the Department of the Interior to help address the growing buffelgrass...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to help rural cooperatives develop new markets for their products and services. USDA is making the grants available to non-profit corporations and institutions of higher education through the Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that M.D. BASCIANI AND SONS, INC., a corporation domiciled in Pennsylvania, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with harboring illegal aliens at the Red Hill Mushroom Farm in Independence, Louisiana, which is leased by the defendant.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that sorghum producers and importers voting in a national referendum have approved the continuation of the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Order, commonly known as the Sorghum Checkoff Program.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow will welcome patients to Capitol Hill to discuss H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced key changes to Committee leadership. After serving with Stabenow since 2007, Staff Director Chris Adamo is headed to the White House Council on Environmental Quality to be Chief of Staff. Replacing Adamo as Staff Director will be Joe Shultz who has served with the Committee since 2011 as Chief Economist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Travis Cole Maxfield, 28, of Altamont, Illinois, was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release, a $500 fine and a $500 special assessment. Sentencing...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that G & J Fresh Produce LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: After a seven-week closure, Enchanted Valley has re-opened to overnight camping. The area was closed on April 24 after visitors reported that black bears had acquired and eaten human food and had approached and appeared unafraid of humans.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow will welcome patients to Capitol Hill to discuss H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - If they had been in place, safety mechanisms might have saved a 62-year-old parts assembler who died after he was struck by a 4-pound metal spacer that flew off a 4-ton hydraulic press, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors determined.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the Fraud Prevention System (FPS) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The FPS was implemented in July 2011 in an effort to more proactively prevent fraud in the Medicare program, as opposed to the “pay and chase" approach.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing at which the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, will testify. The hearing is entitled “Advancing United States’ Interests at the United Nations.".
By DOL Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Gaspar Fuentes. Sites: Both sites were in Fort Worth, Texas. Date Inspection Initiated and What Prompted the Inspection: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration began investigating two Gaspar Fuentes work sites in March 2015 following a referral about unsafe conditions at the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow will welcome patients to Capitol Hill to discuss H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, ...
