News from May 2016
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at the Energy and Commerce Committee markup of H.R. 4775, the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016;" and H.R. 4979, the “Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016":
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK -"I saw something amazing!" "Really? What?" "There's a whale skeleton!" Student excitement and similar exclamations echoed throughout Bartlett Cove on Friday, May 13 as part of a special Every Kid in a Park celebration. Forty fourth graders, teachers, and chaperons from Angoon, Klukwan...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham man was arrested yesterday and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 39-year-old Waxahachie, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for crimes committed in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned about the solvency of Obamacare’s remaining CO-OPs, Energy and Commerce Committee leaders earlier this week requested information from the 11 surviving CO-OPs. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA), ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Wisler Cyrius (35, Naples) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each count. In addition, he has agreed to pay restitution to the victim automobile insurance companies and forfeit the proceeds of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC DE JESUS MENDOZA-MARTINEZ, age 20, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: SUSSEX, Wis. - A rotating airlock blade severed a 30-year-old worker's three fingertips as he cleaned the machine at a Sussex subsidiary of organic food manufacturer Nature's Path Foods Inc., an incident federal safety investigators found could have been prevented if the machine had been powered down fully.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Nuclear energy has provided baseload power to our country for decades, and generates electricity twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It does not emit carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxide, making it not only clean but reliable because power plants can run up to two years at a time before needing to go offline for refueling. One nuclear plant can power over 650,000 homes with clean and reliable energy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Jon S. Petersen, 55, was convicted of one count of filing a false tax return for the calendar year 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Thirty wild horses, two of them halter gentled and 10 burros will be offered for adoption Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12, at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds Chris Beck Arena, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Nuclear energy has provided baseload power to our country for decades, and generates electricity twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It does not emit carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxide, making it not only clean but reliable because power plants can run up to two years at a time before needing to go offline for refueling. One nuclear plant can power over 650,000 homes with clean and reliable energy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 17, 2016, Brian L. Kelley (age: 36) of the Menominee Indian Reservation was sentenced to federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Kelley had previously entered a...
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at the Energy and Commerce Committee markup of H.R. 4775, the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016;" and H.R. 4979, the “Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016":
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Imposition of 156 Month Prison Sentence.
By Federal Newswire | May 18, 2016
WASHINGTON – The Energy Department released the "On the Path to SunShot" reports today, comprising eight research papers that examine the U.S. solar energy industry's status and progress toward the SunShot Initiative’s goal of making solar energy cost-competitive with other electricity forms by 2020. Currently, the industry is approximately 70 percent towards achieving these goals, having grown significantly since the beginning of the Obama Administration.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statements responding to EPA’s proposed rule setting out the 2017 requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Woburn man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with multiple charges of investment adviser fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Members joined Speaker Paul Ryan to send the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016 to the President’s desk. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation overwhelmingly passed the House and Senate and reforms the way Congress considers manufacturing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the return of a Superseding Indictment charging TERRILL STATON with the Oct. 29, 2013, home-invasion robbery and murder of Erwin Elliot, 44, in the Bronx, New York.
