News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months probation, with the first four months to be served on home detention with electronic monitoring, on his conviction of possession of a stolen firearm. In addition, Nolder, Jr. will pay $15,421.23 in restitution, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 825,441 visitors to North Cascades National Park Service Complex, which includes Lake Chelan NRA, North Cascades National Park, and Ross Lake NRA, in 2015, spent $36,351,300 in communities near the parks. That spending supported 448 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $44,098,600.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, today led 26 Senators in sending a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, urging a strong framework for American agriculture in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). The 13th round of T-TIP negotiations start Monday in New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: The Defendant Converted Liquid Methamphetamine to Crystal Methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Oregon/Washington State Office released a new vintage-style poster and postcards of Steens Mountain for Earth Day 2016. The posters and postcards will be available to the public at no cost from all BLM offices and public rooms throughout Oregon and Washington. "An area as...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to helping families across the United States save money by saving energy, the U.S. Department of Energy announced winners of its third annual Race to Zero Student Design Competition, a collegiate competition engaging university students to design zero...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
Release: Goods and Services Eligible for Importation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,535,633 visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) in 2015 spent an estimated $163.4 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 2,586 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $205.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: FBI New Orleans Violent Gang Task Force Arrests Seven Subjects.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today offered the following statement praising nearly 200 nations for signing the Paris Climate Agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide up to $7 million in funding for pilot projects to benefit small U.S. manufacturers by enhancing collaboration between its Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today offered the following statement praising nearly 200 nations for signing the Paris Climate Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Squirrel Hill resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of contempt of court, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, Dr. Edd Colbert Jones, III, from Fitzgerald, Georgia, was indicted on 17 counts of narcotics charges in the Middle District of Georgia, announced Acting United States Attorney G.F. Peterman, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today offered the following statement praising nearly 200 nations for signing the Paris Climate Agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Beatrice, NE -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 78,739 visitors to Homestead National Monument of America in 2015 spent $2.5 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 40 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2.7 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in recognition of the 46th Earth Day on April 22nd, which coincides with the signing ceremony for the Paris climate agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Absecon, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for his role in a $3 million conspiracy to scam customers by offering phony consulting services to owners of timeshares through the New Jersey-based Vacation Ownership Group LLC, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2016
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - On April 25, the Bureau of Reclamation in conjunction with the Oakdale Irrigation District and South San Joaquin Irrigation District plans to increase releases from Goodwin Dam into the Stanislaus River, to supplement spring fishery flow requirements according to the National Marine Fisheries Service 2009 Biological Opinion. Goodwin Dam is located downstream from Tulloch Dam and New Melones Dam and Reservoir.
