News from October 2017
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement regarding negotiations to extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and important public health priorities, like Community Health Centers (CHC). Last week, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 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 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishing a draft rule to repeal the Clean Power Plan rule.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Pennsylvania native and painter Susan Semenick is Gettysburg National Military Park’s new artist-in-residence, beginning in mid-October. Her extensive background in landscape painting has made her an obvious choice for residency at Gettysburg, in whose hallowed and beautiful fields she played as a child. She’s been a finalist for Watercolor Magazine’s American Artists cover competition, and previously served as an Artist-in-Residence at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that it will repeal the Clean Power Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that DAVID ADAMS, 56, of Old Saybrook, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to a six-count superseding indictment charging him with various tax offenses. A trial in this matter was scheduled to start today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Romasiewicz, age 25, of Exeter, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on October 6, 2017, with unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A lawyer licensed to practice in Illinois has been convicted on federal fraud charges for scheming to provide falsified documents to prevent foreclosure on a nearly $2 million parcel of land in Aurora. The fraud left an elderly couple out of $300,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - Christopher C. Myers announces that on October 6, 2017, former Cannonball Tribal Councilman ROBERT FOOL BEAR, age 55, was sentenced before Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland on three Counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and one Count of Incest. Fool Bear was sentenced to serve 30 years imprisonment, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and was further ordered to pay a total of $400 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Support materials are now available from the 2017 National Cleanup Workshop. The materials include links to videos of the workshop session, speaker presentations and an attendee list.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: HYATTVILLE, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to supporting sustainable, working public lands for the American people, the Bureau of Land Management Worland Field Office is requesting public input on a proposed reservoir in Big Horn County by Nov. 9, 2017. In addition, the BLM will host a public meeting to discuss the project from 6-8 p.m., with a presentation of the project beginning at 6:30 p.m., on Oct. 24 at the Hyattville Community Center.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the IRS regarding its $7.25 million contract with Equifax. The contract comes after Equifax revealed the personal information of over 145 million Americans was compromised, and follows the hearing held by the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection with former Equifax CEO Richard Smith.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that Sarah Schaefer will be joining the Finance Committee as Tax Policy Advisor for Small Businesses and Passthroughs for the Democratic Staff. Ms. Schaefer begins this week and will be responsible for leading and developing small business tax policy.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - Celebrate Archeology Month at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. Learn about a day in the life of a National Park Service archeologist during the Meet Your Park Archeologist program. The results of numerous archeological excavations will be discussed and participants are encouraged to interact and ask questions.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the IRS regarding its $7.25 million contract with Equifax. The contract comes after Equifax revealed the personal information of over 145 million Americans was compromised, and follows the hearing held by the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection with former Equifax CEO Richard Smith.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga. - More than 5,000 area high school students met with representatives from over 130 colleges and universities across the U.S. at a recent event managed by the Savannah River Site management and operations contractor.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - EM’s strong record of achievement in fiscal year (FY) 2017 will provide momentum for continued cleanup success, Roger Jarrell, Senior Advisor to the Energy Secretary for EM, said at a conference here last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lake Providence woman was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison for stealing more than $52,000 from a housing development by falsifying receipts for work that was never performed.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A twice-removed Mexican national with a criminal history in the United States was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former nursing home employee who embezzled over $80,000 pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Veneford Blankenship, 35, of Princeton, entered her guilty plea to mail fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Welcome to the first issue of the new weekly EM Update newsletter. We shifted from a twice-monthly publication to a weekly edition to bring our nearly 90,000 newsletter subscribers even more timely news about the EM program’s cleanup progress and accomplishments from across the DOE complex.
