News from July 2018
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House today passed the Defending Economic Livelihoods and Threatened Animals (DELTA) Act, H.R. 4819. The bipartisan legislation promotes sustainable economic development and conservation across Africa’s critical Okavango River Basin, which supports more than one million Angolans, Botswanans and Namibians, as well as the largest remaining elephant population in the world.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 21 cosponsors, introduced the Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act, legislation to protect the health and safety of pregnant women and youth in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a four-year federal prison sentence handed down in June 2017 to 50-year-old investment counselor Charles Augustus Banks, IV, an executive with Gameday Entertainment, LLC (Gameday), for defrauding a San Antonio victim of millions of dollars announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “Realizing the Benefits of Rural Broadband: Challenges and Solutions:"
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Cheyenne, Wyo. - Visit the Bureau of Land Management at Cheyenne Frontier Days for a wild horse and burro adoption and public land information at the General Land Office in the Old Frontier Town.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a hearing today to discuss the latest efforts to support broadband deployment and bridge the digital divide. #SubCommTech members received an update from the panel of expert witnesses about progress...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: This week, the House is expected to consider the FY 2019 Interior-Environment appropriations bill as part of a two-bill minibus. This Republican bill puts the health and safety of the American people at risk by slashing critical funding for environmental protection. Ideological policy riders continue...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT-CC) following up on concerns raised about coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) practices amid the Spectre and Meltdown cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 47-year-old Whitehouse, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: A 6-month investigation of significant heroin and methamphetamine trafficking in the north Puget Sound region culminated in eleven federal arrests today and the serving of search warrants on thirty locations, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The local leader of the drug trafficking ring, JOSE...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office is asking the public to review and provide comment on a preliminary environmental assessment (EA) for managing the Little Ash Springs Recreation Site located alongside U.S. Highway 93, about 100 miles north of Las Vegas. The 30-day public comment period concludes Monday, Aug. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Trent Shores, announced his office’s participation in Operation Big Delivery, a week long interdiction of illegal drugs, spearheaded by the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. The United States Attorney’s Office worked with the United States Postal...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE Modernization: Legislation to Authorize a Pilot Project to Commercialize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Gibson County man has been indicted on child exploitation charges. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 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), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled, “Legislative Hearing on a Discussion Draft Bill, the Endangered Species Act Amendments of 2018."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 24, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Advertising and Marketing Practices within the Substance Use Treatment Industry."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Arce Nunez, age 26, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to the charge of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued the first loan guarantee solicitation for the Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program (TELGP) under DOE's Loan Programs Office. This solicitation provides as much as $2 billion in partial loan guarantees to support economic opportunities for Native American and Alaska Native communities through energy development projects and activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced in federal court after being convicted of multiple charges related to the October 2016 kidnapping, carjacking, and shooting of two individuals.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for its Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) F-Yard Cleanup Services project under RFI No. 89303318NEM000006.
