News from March 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on President Trump's announcement on vehicle emission standards. The decision is to review the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mid-Term Evaluation determination of the greenhouse gas emissions standards for automotive vehicles, which was finalized Jan. 12, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing “Disrupter Series: Advanced Materials and Production":
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: $5 Million Reward Offered for Information on the Murder of American Citizen in Yemen.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an effort to undermine the Antiquities Act, Committee Republicans are holding a hearing this morning to attack Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush’s uses of the Act by falsely claiming they overreached when they designated national marine monuments in the Pacific and Atlantic...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after President Trump reversed EPA's technical determination that the strong fuel emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025 should stay in place.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “HR 806, Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Donald Trump announced that he will reopen midterm review of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which was finalized under the Obama Administration. This move opens the door to rolling back implementation of the standard requiring cars and light-duty trucks to reach a 54.5 miles per gallon standard by Model Year 2025...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining FDA’s Prescription Drug User Fee Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GROSS WILLIAMS, age 49, and his wife, KATHLEEN WILLIAMS, age 47, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Four Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders today requested answers from the National Football League (NFL) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regarding troubling allegations, made public in a March 9th Washington Post article, that personnel of NFL teams, including doctors and trainers, violated various federal laws for decades involving the use and transport of controlled substances and other prescription drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that the Justice Department announced the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the 2014 hack of Yahoo.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Committee Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin in leading the committee’s first business meeting of the 115th Congress. The Committee passed a number of McCaskill-backed bills including the Securing Our Agriculture and Food Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: An East Cleveland man was indicted for robbing two banks on West 25th Street this year, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee oversight hearing on “Examining Innovative Solutions to Control Invasive Species and Promote Wildlife Conservation."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Blue Springs, Mo., man who was caught three times in the same month with illegal drugs and guns, was sentenced in federal court today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: Spring wildflowers always bloom abundantly in the area we now call the Chickasaw Village Site. Join a park ranger to learn about the plants and flowers that were there when the Chickasaw people lived at the site, find out what plant life was brought in by others who migrated to this area...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of making careful investments in hydropower infrastructure at a subcommittee hearing today titled, “Modernizing Energy Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities to Expanding Hydropower Generation":
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Virginia man appeared in federal court today to face charges that he robbed a TD Bank in Ocean City, New Jersey, and a Wells Fargo Bank in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Shan Hill, age 36, of Sumter, SC; Tywon Blackwell, age 35, of Alcolu, SC; George “Tech" McDowell, age 45, of Sumter, SC; Shawn Green, age 38, of Sumter, SC; Quanta Lewis, age 23, of Sumter, SC; and Keenan McDowell-Gregg...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID HOBSON, a former investment adviser, was sentenced to six months in prison for engaging in a scheme to commit insider trading in connection with deals involving a pharmaceutical company (the “Pharma...
