News from June 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Cleveland...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: West Valley City, Utah-The BLM-Utah West Desert District (WDD) has re-issued a fire prevention order that addresses year-round and seasonal fire restrictions. These restrictions apply to BLM-lands in Salt Lake, Utah, Tooele, Rich and Box Elder Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: A jury convicted an Akron man on five counts for related to an extortion plot, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With today’s Senate passage of the PIPES Act - bipartisan legislation to strengthen pipeline safety, clarify safety oversight efforts, and provide greater regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities - the four-year reauthorization of the federal pipeline safety program now heads to the president to be signed into law.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With today’s Senate passage of the PIPES Act - bipartisan legislation to strengthen pipeline safety, clarify safety oversight efforts, and provide greater regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities - the four-year reauthorization of the federal pipeline safety program now heads to the president to be signed into law.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With today’s Senate passage of the PIPES Act - bipartisan legislation to strengthen pipeline safety, clarify safety oversight efforts, and provide greater regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities - the four-year reauthorization of the federal pipeline safety program now heads to the president to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Many Victims Were Upstate New York Residents.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With today’s Senate passage of the PIPES Act - bipartisan legislation to strengthen pipeline safety, clarify safety oversight efforts, and provide greater regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities - the four-year reauthorization of the federal pipeline safety program now heads to the president to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Frazier Williams, Jr. to three years in federal prison for willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of a tax return that he knew to be false and fraudulent. The Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $2,974,000. A federal jury found Williams guilty on Jan. 16, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded Toshiba America Energy Systems of Colorado a $17.8 million contract on Friday, June 10, 2016, to overhaul two generators, install new stator cores and frames, and improve oil and air cooling systems for its Wayne N. Aspinall Unit. Additional work will include new digital excitation systems for Blue Mesa, Morrow Point and Crystal power plants near Montrose, Colorado.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: The anoxic portion of the zone, which contains no oxygen at all, is predicted to be 0.28 cubic miles in early summer, growing to 0.31 cubic miles by late summer - both of which are smaller than average. Low river flow and low nutrient loading from the Susquehanna and Potomac rivers this spring account for the smaller predicted size of the anoxic portion.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of grain sorghum for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell and Secretary King...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: A pavement resurfacing and repair work project is scheduled for this summer at Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hoveweep and Natural Bridges national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: A former social security Chief Administrative Law Judge pleaded guilty in federal court today for conspiring to retaliate against a former employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA) who provided information regarding potential corruption and fraud to federal investigators.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With today’s Senate passage of the PIPES Act - bipartisan legislation to strengthen pipeline safety, clarify safety oversight efforts, and provide greater regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities - the four-year reauthorization of the federal pipeline safety program now heads to the president to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dante Kaleek Darby, age 32, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III in Harrisburg, for distribution of cocaine hydrochloride.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today issued the following joint statement regarding the Department of Education's new proposed regulation affecting student borrowers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On June 13, 2016, Larry Vance, 29, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice Jr., U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 70 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. Upon his release from prison, Vance will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 15 years.
