News published on Federal Newswire in July 2016

News from July 2016


News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security has released the Integrated Product Teams for Department of Homeland Security R&D Fiscal Year 2016 Report. The report identifies 24 focus areas for technological research and development (R&D), which fall under five mission areas: aviation security, biological threats, border security, cybersecurity and counterterrorism.


News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a $425 million settlement with subsidiaries of Tesoro Corp., and Par Hawaii Refining that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations and protects public health by reducing air pollution at six refineries. Under ...


News Release: A Jacksonville, Florida, man pleaded guilty today for unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship by failing to disclose during his naturalization process his membership in the Bosnian Army and crimes that he committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian Conflict in the 1990s, announced Assistant ...


News Release: The former director of Baseball Development for the St. Louis Cardinals has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of accessing the Houston Astros’ computers without authorization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson for the Southern District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI. Christopher Correa, 36, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty Jan. 8, to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer.


Seven Hawaiian Falls’ water parks pay nearly $86K in penalties for child labor violations following US Labor Department investigations

News Release: DALLAS – Seven investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found underage workers using dangerous equipment and working outside of permitted work hours at Hawaiian Falls’ Water and Adventure parks in Garland, Mansfield, Roanoke, Pflugerville, The Colony, White Settlement and Waco.


MSHA finds nearly all respirable coal dust samplings comply with new standards to lower levels of respirable coal dust

News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – A federal rule to protect the nation’s miners from exposure to dangerous levels of coal mine dust is having a significantly positive impact in Phase II, a recent sampling by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration shows.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a six page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.