News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Ramon Lacen-Santiago, 41, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty on Sept. 14, 2016, in federal court on St. Croix to conspiracy to commit bulk cash smuggling, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a new Energy Materials Network (EMN) consortium, the Durable Module Materials (DuraMat) National Lab Consortium led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). DuraMat is designed to accelerate the development and deployment of new, high performance materials for photovoltaic (PV) modules to lower the cost of electricity generated by solar power, while increasing field lifetime.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
Release: Researcher and Borlaug Fellow Issah Sugri (right) working with peanut farmers in Ghana to address aflatoxin issues. (Photo courtesy of Issah Sugri).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Over 75 counterfeit credit cards recovered during investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN ANATE, also known as “Pills" and “Che Pills," 26, most recently of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “The Department of Energy’s Role in Advancing the National, Economic, and Energy Security of the United States":
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Chattanooga Bank Robbery. The Knoxville Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chattanooga Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the man who robbed the Health Care Services Credit Union in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At approximately 2:45 p.m. on September...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: In 1996 then President William J. Clinton signed Executive Order 12999 authorizing and encouraging federal agencies to donate excess computer equipment to schools and community-based educational organizations.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the Department of Energy’s role in advancing the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz testified on energy infrastructure and grid security, issues critical to the committee’s ongoing work to say #Yes2Energy.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a referral letter to HHS’ Office of the Inspector General regarding an NIH grant awarded for research related to traumatic brain injury that became a source of public controversy. The grant was to be funded through...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a referral letter to HHS’ Office of the Inspector General regarding an NIH grant awarded for research related to traumatic brain injury that became a source of public controversy. The grant was to be funded through...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), has scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, Sept. 22, at 10 a.m. in HVC-210 of the Capitol Visitor Center. The hearing is entitled, “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today highlighted a new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that details challenges faced by Chief Information Security...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), has scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, Sept. 22, at 10 a.m. in HVC-210 of the Capitol Visitor Center. The hearing is entitled, “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - James Seltzer, a former attorney and resident of Marin County, pleaded guilty to securities fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian Stretch, FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf. The guilty plea was accepted yesterday by U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a referral letter to HHS’ Office of the Inspector General regarding an NIH grant awarded for research related to traumatic brain injury that became a source of public controversy. The grant was to be funded through...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region is lowering water levels in Lake Mohave to aid in harvesting razorback suckers, a species native to the Colorado River, from lakeside rearing ponds. The work is part of annual river operations which is timed to coincide with conservation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio yesterday, 60-year-old Elias Mejia, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison for trafficking in methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 22, at 11 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Albany, Georgia Bank Robber Tied to Second Robbery.
