News from December 2018
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the accomplishments made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over the past year. USDA has continued enacting President Trump’s goals of regulatory reform, streamlining government, and refocusing USDA to be customer oriented.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Dec. 21, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the criteria the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has developed to evaluate the 136 Expressions of Interest received from parties in 35 states vying to become the new homes of the Economic Research ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2018 – The holidays are a time for entertaining and for giving back. USDA’s food loss and waste initiative offers tips on making the most of both sides of the season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a Statement of Interest in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa supporting the claim of a student group, Business Leaders in Christ, that the University of Iowa violated its First Amendment rights when it de-registered the group for requiring its ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON –Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker today announced that, pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 13777 and the Department of Justice’s November 2017 memorandum ending the practice of regulation by guidance, the Department is rescinding 69 additional guidance documents that are unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to prevent and address workplace harassment in state and local government. The EEOC and the Justice Department seek to enhance the effectiveness ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker today released the following statement: "The Pan Am 103 bombing changed this country and it changed law enforcement forever," Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said. "At the time, it was the deadliest terrorist attack on American civilians in our history. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The United States has partially intervened in a lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Wheeling Hospital Inc. (Wheeling), R & V Associates Ltd. (R & V), and Ronald Violi in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice announced today. The government ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Hongjin Tan, a 35 year old Chinese national and U.S. legal permanent resident, was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with theft of trade secrets. Tan is alleged to have stolen the trade secrets from his employer, a U.S. petroleum company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: NOTE: The 2018 False Claims Act statistics can be found here.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The federal bank regulatory agencies approved a final rule modifying their regulatory capital rules and providing an option to phase in over a period of three years the day-one regulatory capital effects of updated accounting standard known as the "Current Expected Credit Losses" (CECL) methodology. The final rule also revises the agencies' other rules to reflect the update to the accounting standards.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board announced on Friday that it will maintain the current modeling framework for loan allowances in its supervisory stress test through 2021.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The federal banking agencies today issued final rules that adopt without change the interim final rules issued in August that expanded the number of insured depository institutions and U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks eligible for an 18-month on-site examination cycle, rather than a 12-month cycle.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Five federal financial regulatory agencies on Friday invited public comment on a proposal that would exclude certain community banks from the Volcker rule, consistent with the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA).
By Commerce News Now | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Today, the MITRE Corporation released its report investigating internal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientific policies and procedures regarding the publication of a study titled Possible Artifacts of Data Biases in the Recent Global Surface Warming Hiatus. This study was led ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce was hard at work this year protecting American trade and security interests, reforming outdated government practices, planning the critical decennial census, providing crucial weather information to protect lives and property, stewarding the Nation’s marine resources, in addition to supporting minority and community economic development, among countless other vital activities.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of plastic decorative ribbon from China, finding that exporters have sold plastic decorative ribbon at less than fair value in the ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that it has issued two new opinion letters. These letters demonstrate the Department’s commitment to providing meaningful compliance assistance to help employees understand their rights and ensure that employers have the tools they need to comply with federal labor law.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KS – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Midwest Drywall Company Inc. for safety violations after part of a forklift fatally crushed an employee at the company’s Wichita, Kansas, facility.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter today announced a Job Corps Demonstration Project that will make Idaho the first state in the nation to assume operational control of a Job Corps center and the responsibility to provide skills instruction to Job Corps students.
