News from November 2015
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting that the agency convene a technical conference to examine the implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s formal rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two men today admitted extorting thousands of dollars in corrupt payments in connection with arranging approvals to provide landfill materials for a Hudson County Improvement Authority (“HCIA") project, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s formal rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced Talmadge Oxford as the new manager of the Upper Colorado Region’s Power Area Office.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting that the agency convene a technical conference to examine the implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) has started clearing the Alligator Hill Trail. The trail has been impassable since Aug. 2, 2015, when a severe storm caused extensive tree damage. The National Lakeshore’s goal is to clear the Stocking Road Trailhead and the two western loops...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A man from the Bronx, New York, has been indicted in Houston on charges of mail and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge J. Leon Holmes sentenced Mark Lyle Dodson, age 54, of Cabot, Arkansas, to five years’ imprisonment for assault with a deadly weapon to be followed by 10 years’...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: A Norton man was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison for sexually assaulting minors while in Honduras, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Dusty Jo Gambill, 40, of Centralia, Illinois, was sentenced today for her role in a Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Methamphetamine which operated from Feb. 28, 2014, through Oct. 1, 2014...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the American Red Cross today renewed their alliance to continue efforts to reduce workplace incidents and protect workers from hazardous exposures. During this five-year alliance, OSHA and the Red Cross will focus on providing workers and employers with information and training resources on emergency preparedness, disease prevention education and first aid.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting that the agency convene a technical conference to examine the implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA).
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Eileen O'Laughlin, program manager, Georgia Department of Economic Development; Christi Griffin, OSHA's Atlanta-West area director; and Scott Shelar, executive director, Construction Education Foundation of Georgia; and other alliance members signing the renewal agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Butler County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - David Ray McGee, 47, of Wallis, has entered a guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child, otherwise known as production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Co-defendant Saralyn Ann Proschko, 46, of Victoria, pleaded guilty earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Tony and Tommy Nguyen, brothers who live in Mobile, were sentenced today in federal court for their participation in a marijuana distribution conspiracy. The brothers pled guilty to gun and drug charges in June of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jonathan Ernesto Godoy, 25, of Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges relating to a November 2012 arson at the Loudoun County Department of Community Corrections building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that John C. Morrison, 70, and Anna F. Novak, 57, both of Ashland, Wis., were sentenced Friday evening on federal drug and tax charges following a five-hour sentencing hearing before U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Recruited minors through a social networking website to engage in commercial sex acts.
