News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson police officer today admitted concealing the assault of an attempted suicide victim by another police officer at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Paterson, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy Leads.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the Trump Administration will attempt to roll back carbon emissions standards for new coal power plants...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a follow-up letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today renewing his request for answers on the ongoing family separation crisis following recent reports that raise new questions about the Trump Administration’s efforts to adequately track, care for, and reunite children in its custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - On Dec. 3, 2018, a former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of two Complaints charging four defendants with firearms...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a follow-up letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today renewing his request for answers on the ongoing family separation crisis following recent reports that raise new questions about the Trump Administration’s efforts to adequately track, care for, and reunite children in its custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - After deliberating for just 20 minutes, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Andrew Franklin Kowalczyk, 44, formerly of Portland, for the repeated sexual abuse and exploitation of three minor female victims.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
Release: STANFORD, CA – On December 3-4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy, Stanford Energy’s Precourt Institute for Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI), and Texas A&M Energy Institute, hosted the Seventh Annual U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $12 million in funding for 5 projects as part of its first-ever OPEN+ program. Inspired by the high quality of applications in the agency’s recent OPEN 2018 funding opportunity, this first cohort will focus on ways to enable advanced nuclear energy by overcoming challenges in high performance materials science.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted for lying about his conviction for domestic violence three times this year while trying to purchase a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), announced a hearing for Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Public Private Partnerships for Federal Energy Management."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.- The United States spends more than any other nation on research and development (R&D) each year, investing over $150 billion in federally funded R&D alone. In line with President Donald J. Trump’s Management Agenda, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Arkmallah Hilliard, age 38, of Baltimore, Maryland, pled guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States and admitted to receiving more than $400,000 as a result of filing hundreds of fraudulent tax returns.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to ease carbon dioxide limits placed on new coal-fired power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: A grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday that charges six doctors as part of an investigation into a $464 million health care fraud scheme that involved over 13 million unlawfully prescribed opioid prescription drugs, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Six women from Sub-Saharan Africa married defendant to gain legal status in U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In keeping with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s commitment to work closely with states to enhance conservation, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and proposed plan amendments addressing Greater Sage-Grouse conservation on public land in northeastern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Joseph C. Callahan, 36, of Belmont, New Hampshire, was sentenced in federal court to nine years in federal prison for possessing over five grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), announced a hearing for Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Public Private Partnerships for Federal Energy Management."
