News from April 2018
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is notifying the public of our intention to recognize Northern Ireland, Croatia, Poland and Scotland as negligible risk for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). The World Organization for Animal Health’s (OIE) ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - More than 20 volunteers from Hanford site services contractor Mission Support Alliance worked with the Tapteal Greenway Association in West Richland, Wash., near the Hanford Site, to help reestablish about 1,000 feet of trail near a bustling residential development to mark Earth Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston felon who possessed a firearm in December 2016 was sentenced yesterday to 38 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jamie Edward Smith, 31, previously pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. United States Attorney Stuart commended the investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the West Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Elizabeth Salinas-Roldan, 43, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced in federal court to 78 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) recently completed installing vents and sample ports in the final drums of legacy transuranic waste stored at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This decade-long effort ensures the drums do not contain any hazardous gases that could cause rapid combustion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant admits responsibility for the murder of a 16-year-old in East Boston.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “The State of Rural America."
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders today requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enforcement of federal health and environmental safeguards, including EPA’s oversight of state enforcement programs. The request...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - This month marks the 10th anniversary of radioactive operations for the Actinide Removal Process/Modular Caustic Side Solvent Extraction Unit (ARP/MCU) facilities, a duo that has played a significant role in six high-level waste tank closures at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following an announcement from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new efforts to address youth access to tobacco products, including JUUL and other e-cigarettes...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue subpoenas to compel the Department...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - Dr. Jason Lovins with deactivation and decommissioning contractor Fluor-BWXT (left) discusses future use of EM’s Portsmouth Site with Portsmouth Mayor Kevin Johnson last week at a community open house in Scioto County, Ohio. Another public event was held in Pike County and similarly included...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- Yesterday, Veronica Castro, 44, of Glendale, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 20 months in prison and was ordered to pay $1,145,392 in restitution. Castro had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud along with co-defendant Yomtov Scott Menaged. Menaged was previously sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment for his role in the bank fraud and other associated schemes.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), chair of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry calling on them to protect the confidential business information of America's small refineries.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau to produce documents they have been withholding for nearly three weeks relating to concerns raised by the Census Bureau itself about the Trump Administration’s sudden decision to add an untested new citizenship question to the 2020 census.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, La. - After collecting more than 9 million (4,500 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at 14 previous events over the past 8 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country on Saturday, April 28th. The service is free and anonymous.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
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's (EPA) proposed rule to strengthen the transparency of the agency's regulatory science. The proposed ...
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel’s bill, the No Assistance for Assad Act, passed the House of Representatives. Representative Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of his bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON -The chief executive officer of PixarBio Corp., a Boston-based biotech company, and two associates were arrested today and charged with securities fraud in connection with a scheme to manipulate trading in the company’s shares.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following an announcement from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new efforts to address youth access to tobacco products, including JUUL and other e-cigarettes...
