News from February 2016
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent two separate letters to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy and Keith Creagh, Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today joined Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House leaders in meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the United States Capitol. After the meeting, Chairman Royce released the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Crane, Hoist and Monorail Partners today renewed their alliance to improve the safety and health of workers who manufacture and use cranes, hoists and monorails. During the five-year agreement, the alliance will address preventing worker exposures to electrical shock, electrocution, falls from elevation and being struck-by moving equipment.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today released the following statement in response to new video footage showing an employee of a large abortion provider explaining accounting tricks used to conceal fetal tissue sales.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent two separate letters to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy and Keith Creagh, Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent two separate letters to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy and Keith Creagh, Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD -Wind Cave National Park plans to mark this year's Centennial of the National Park Service with a wide variety of special events lasting into December. Created in 1916, the National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 3036 (Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-NJ), the “National 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center Act," legislation designating the National September 11 Memorial located at the World Trade Center site in New York City, New York, as a national memorial. The legislation passed by unanimous consent in today’s Full Committee markup.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - James Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD), and Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2016
News Release: St. George, Utah-Every Friday, the Bureau of Land Management and its partners host the popular Brown Bag Lecture series which provides unique opportunities for members of the public to learn more about the area’s natural resources and public lands. Speakers include geologists, range specialists, biologists...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’ Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominations for the National Mango Board (Board). Applications for six open seats are due April 11, 2016. Selected representatives will serve three-year terms of office. The 18-member board includes eight importers, two domestic producers, seven foreign producers, and one first handler.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity and Energy Reliability has built upon its ongoing effort to reflect the Obama Administration’s commitment to improving the resiliency, reliability, and security of the nation’s electricity delivery system by announcing the publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Integrated Interagency Pre-Application Process (IIP) on electric grid transmission.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that the maternity leave policy for members of the U.S. Coast Guard has been increased from six weeks to up to 12 weeks for mothers, following the birth of their child. This is consistent with the policy announced by the Secretary of Defense last week for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $2.2 million to Adventium Enterprises of Minneapolis for the development of technology that can ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: In connection with the latest monthly release of the numbers of apprehensions on our southwest border, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson made the following statement: “In January 2016, overall apprehensions on our southwest border – an indicator of total attempts to cross the border illegally ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to tax evasion and four counts of serving as a pilot without an airman’s certificate, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: Chaka Fattah Jr., 33, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for fraud and tax charges in connection with a scheme to defraud banks, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Philadelphia School District, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that MCC Construction Company (MCC) has agreed to pay $1,769,294 in criminal penalties and forfeiture for conspiring to commit fraud on the United States by illegally obtaining government contracts that were intended for small, disadvantaged businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: Company Sentenced to Pay a Total of Over $1.7 Million in Fines and Restitution A New Jersey industrial pipe supply company and its owner were sentenced today for conspiring to commit fraud and pay bribes to a purchasing manager at Consolidated Edison of New York in return for the manager’s efforts to steer contracts to the company, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today a settlement to resolve allegations that Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (Toyota) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American and Asian/Pacific Islander borrowers in auto lending. Toyota, based in Torrance, California, is the nation’s largest captive auto lender, and the fifth largest auto lender overall.
