News from January 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: LINCOLN, Neb. - A newly hired, 39-year-old worker who fell through a roof in October 2015 and later died, could have been saved if his employer provided required fall protection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA) is preparing to break ground on its first utility-scale solar plant, a 27.5-megawatt (MW) project on 300 acres in a Navajo community south of Monument Valley, Arizona. On Dec. 16, 2015, NTUA announced an agreement to develop the utility-scale project with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Naser Yousef Gheith, a/k/a “Nick," age 37, from San Francisco, California, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today built on its Grid Modernization Initiative - an ongoing effort that reflects the Obama Administration’s commitment to improving the resiliency, reliability, and security of the nation’s electricity delivery system. During his visit to a utility control...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today expressed concern with a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) response to a recent pig disease outbreak. Outbreaks of Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD) beginning in the spring of 2013 led to the deaths of millions of pigs in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAQUIL GARY, 22, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for robbing an ATF informant.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -The Bureau of Reclamation released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the issuance of a land use authorization, which will provide access to and allow for grazing of approximately 2,190 acres of land in Fresno, County.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement regarding a breakthrough in automotive safety innovation - autonomous, or self-driving vehicles.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that the committee’s comprehensive review on concussions will commence with a roundtable discussion on Monday, January 25. The roundtable, which will bring together experts from the medical, military, athletic, and research communities, will serve as a launching pad for the committee’s review to study the causes, effects, and treatments of concussions and other head trauma.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement marking the five year anniversary of the popular uprising in Tunisia that ousted former President Zine el-Abedin Ben Ali, paving the way for the emergence of the region’s first democratically elected government...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a three-day trial, a man who pointed an assault rifle at police officers has been convicted by a federal jury of felony firearm possession. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty verdict today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement regarding a breakthrough in automotive safety innovation - autonomous, or self-driving vehicles.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: New members of the panel are...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that the committee’s comprehensive review on concussions will commence with a roundtable discussion on Monday, January 25. The roundtable, which will bring together experts from the medical, military, athletic, and research communities, will serve as a launching pad for the committee’s review to study the causes, effects, and treatments of concussions and other head trauma.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement regarding a breakthrough in automotive safety innovation - autonomous, or self-driving vehicles.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Biologists from the National Park Service recently discovered two mountain lion kittens in the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains. The female and male kittens, now known as P-46 and P-47, were implanted with tracking devices after researchers located their den in a remote area.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Willie E. May launches the NIST blog with an inaugural post
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that the committee’s comprehensive review on concussions will commence with a roundtable discussion on Monday, January 25. The roundtable, which will bring together experts from the medical, military, athletic, and research communities, will serve as a launching pad for the committee’s review to study the causes, effects, and treatments of concussions and other head trauma.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today expressed concern with a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) response to a recent pig disease outbreak. Outbreaks of Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD) beginning in the spring of 2013 led to the deaths of millions of pigs in the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today expressed concern with a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) response to a recent pig disease outbreak. Outbreaks of Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD) beginning in the spring of 2013 led to the deaths of millions of pigs in the United States.
