News from December 2016
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today announced an agreement on comprehensive water resources infrastructure legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today announced an agreement on comprehensive water resources infrastructure legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act, issued the following statement following the Senate’s cloture vote this evening, clearing the way for a swift vote on passage.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees several days in 2017 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Cincinnati-Area Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Attempting Terrorism Plot to Kill Government Employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Defendant taken into custody by multiple law enforcement agencies as part of high risk arrest due to perceived dangerousness.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee; Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the house Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee; and Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, today announced an agreement on comprehensive water resources infrastructure legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Cecil Sylvester Chester, age 70, of Mitchellville, Maryland today to two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a mortgage fraud scheme involving the fraudulent purchase of seven properties in Baltimore...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Employer Name: Subfloor Systems Inc. Subfloor Systems Inc. 10509 Tube St. 10509 Tube St. Hurst, Texas. Hurst, Texas. Citations Issued: Nov. 8, 2016. Investigation Findings: Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration observed a Subfloor Systems' ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Used Computer Network Credentials to Access Company Emails to Trade on Non-Public Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Toa Danh “Tony" Ly, 45, resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced on Friday, Dec. 2, by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 60 months in prison, to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced two defendants for their involvement in a large-scale smokeable synthetic cannabinoid trafficking organization based in Millbrae and Stockton, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Three individuals have entered guilty pleas for their roles in a conspiracy to transport illegal aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees several days in 2017 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah will host its annual statewide public hearing at the BLM-Utah Salt Lake Field Office to discuss the use of helicopters and motorized vehicles in the management of wild horses and burros on Utah’s public lands. Federal Regulation requires an annual public hearing for comments on this issue; the hearing in Salt Lake City will be the only one held in Utah during the 2017 gather season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Crack dealer sentenced to five years; heroin dealer sentenced to three and a half years.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Intermountain Regional Director Sue Masica approved a Record of Decision for Grand Teton National Park’s Moose-Wilson Corridor Final Comprehensive Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (Final Plan/EIS). The Record of Decision marks completion of the planning phase of the project, which began in December 2013 and will be implemented beginning in the spring of 2017. The decision document can be viewed at.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Marcos Nieves, 40, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 426,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline Project - the subject of months of demonstrations that included law enforcement spraying unarmed water protectors with high-pressure water hoses...
