News from January 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Craig Mason, 44, of Auburn, charging him with unlawful dealing and manufacturing firearms and manufacturing marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: C.L. Bragg, author of Crescent Moon over Carolina: William Moultrie and American Liberty, the only book-length biography of General William Moultrie, will be speaking about his book as the next event in our author series at Fort Moultrie.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has selected six ideas out of 22 submitted for its "New Concepts for Remote Fish Detection" prize competition. Four out of the six submissions fully qualified under the prize competition guidelines and will receive a shared total of $20,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -An $11.3 million construction project to improve roads leading to Katherine Landing within Lake Mead National Recreation Area will begin Jan. 11.
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed three bipartisan measures.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Grand Teton National Park will kick off the National Park Service centennial year with a new and exciting program called Mountains to Main Street beginning on Jan. 10, 2016. This eight-week program aims to actively engage under-represented, urban youth with their national parks through...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: Over many years, the National Park Service brings together groups of leading experts in the country to help develop the interpretative plan for a new park. To that end, the NPS invited a group of experts, including participants from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to participate in a scholars’ forum on the Manhattan...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today launched a redesigned website to help folks stay up-to-date with the important work happening in the Committee. The site, which remains located at www.agriculture.senate.gov, will be a one stop shop for information ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: CALABASAS, Calif. -- In celebration of the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service, local film historians will host “The Centennial on Screen: 100 Years of our National Parks in the Movies" at the Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center on Sunday, January 24.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Las Vegas Field Office, is seeking public comments on a proposal to sell 39 parcels, totaling 608.57 acres of public land in Clark County, Nevada. The competitive sale would be by sealed and oral bidding in accordance with the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA). A Notice of Realty Action published in today’s Federal Register opens a 45-day comment period that will close Feb. 22, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), requesting more information regarding the National Football League’s (NFL) involvement in the...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking answers from the agencies regarding the ongoing methane leak in Southern California.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking answers from the agencies regarding the ongoing methane leak in Southern California.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Draft Environmental Assessment for the Pueblo Reservoir Hydropower Project for public review and comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Anthony Paul Smith has been sentenced 18 years, six months in federal prison for a series of violent armed robberies of six small businesses that he committed in Clayton County, and Henry County, Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following joint statement today on Grijalva’s resolution urging the armed militia members in Oregon to end...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: New State Report Further Proves EPA Falsely Tied Hydraulic Fracturing to Ground Water Impacts
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement in opposition to the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act (H.R. 3662 ) at a full Committee markup...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 246,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: Dyrell Leshaun Davis, age 32, of Columbus, Georgia was convicted, following a 3-day jury trial, on January 6, 2016, on one count of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Clay D. Land was the presiding judge.
