News from October 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Vice President Joe Biden this afternoon issued the administration’s plan for how the cancer moonshot will launch into orbit. Among the action items included in the report are recommendations offered by the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel last month.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General David Hunt expressing concerns with the apparent erosion of the Inspector General’s independence by FCC action.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An immigration attorney for two information technology companies today admitted that she submitted phony documents and obstructed a federal investigation as part of a scheme that fraudulently obtained foreign worker visas, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA reprises this weekend one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday October 22 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose of their unused, unwanted prescription medications at one of 4,700 collection sites nationwide, operated by 3,800 local law enforcement agencies and other community partners. The service is free of charge, no questions asked.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized revisions to how the federal government measures and verifies oil and gas production rates on federal lands (Onshore Orders 3, 4 and 5). House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: MOAB, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah, Moab Field Office is seeking comments on an environmental assessment (EA) that analyzes a proposal from Gray Canyon Energy for a 10 inch buried natural gas pipeline. The purpose of the pipeline would be to transport dry natural gas from the existing Greentown Gas Processing Facility to the Green River Oil Upgrade facility in Green River, Utah, where it will be used to help power operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant was caught in Chicago after fleeing Colorado.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2017 Borlaug Global Research Alliance Fellowships. Fellows will work with a mentor at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service or a U.S. university for up to 12 weeks on climate change mitigation research. The U.S. mentor will later visit the fellow’s home institution to continue collaboration.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, OR-Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) raised concerns with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) after a report released by the Department of Transportation Inspector General (IG) found serious issues...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country X.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Granby, Mass. accountant was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Defendants Stole, Possessed And Passed Money Order Forms.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service proposes to replace the docks at the Raspberry Island Light Station, which are in poor condition, in 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Land Management will offer 31 parcels totaling 20,135 acres in the Royal Gorge, Grand Junction and Colorado River Valley field offices at its Dec. 8, 2016, quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The BLM will hold the lease sale online via www.energynet.com. Bidding will begin at 9 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: In El Paso, 41-year-old Samuel Velasco Gurrola faces mandatory life in federal prison after a jury convicted him this afternoon of his role in a murder-for-hire plot announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A former deputy with the Bullitt County, Kentucky, Sheriff’s Office was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release, by United States District Judge David J. Hale, for willfully depriving a county resident of his constitutional rights, announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: All projects focus on the three primary threats to coral reefs: global climate change, land-based sources of pollution and unsustainable fishing practices, and highly threatened coral regions and watersheds.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Monticello Field Office is seeking input from the public on a proposal from EOG Resources, Inc. to drill two wells in the Blanding sub-basin oil and gas development area of San Juan County, Utah. The proposed drill locations (Recapture 11-22H and Recapture 4-34H) are east of Highway 191 and the Bluff Bench area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Haris Qamar, 26, of Burke, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
