News from July 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today expressing their deep concern ahead of an anticipated vote at the FCC later this week eliminating the agency’s traditional role of helping consumers resolve informal complaints.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On July 10, 2018, Victor Van Cleave, age 30, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 30 months in prison for tampering with consumer products, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Van Cleave was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that James D. Falkowski, 42, of Buffalo, New York, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT DIAZ, a/k/a “Facey," a/k/a “Face," was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to 120 months in prison for distributing heroin and other narcotics, including heroin that caused...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: OMAHA, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and McCarthy Building Companies Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska, have signed a strategic partnership to promote worker safety and health during the construction of the Veterans Ambulatory Care Center - an addition to the Omaha Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following an announcement by the Trump Administration that it is further slashing funding for the navigator program and pushing those who apply for navigator grants to advocate for junk plans that hurt people with pre-existing conditions...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Today, three key federal lawmakers wrote to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), calling for the utility to incorporate renewable energy sources as the beleaguered Island’s energy production and distribution systems are modernized.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking to stem a recent increase in workplace fatalities in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The Agency has seen an increase in fatalities associated with falls, struck-by objects and vehicles, machine hazards, grain bin engulfment, and burns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Tyrone D. Pierce, age 60, of Ocean City, Maryland today to eight years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, specifically, a bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a markup for Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 17, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency of Health Care Costs for Consumers."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Oleg Viktorovich Vasilyev, age 50, of Boulder, Colorado, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez to mail fraud and aiding and abetting, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Today, three key federal lawmakers wrote to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), calling for the utility to incorporate renewable energy sources as the beleaguered Island’s energy production and distribution systems are modernized.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today expressing their deep concern ahead of an anticipated vote at the FCC later this week eliminating the agency’s traditional role of helping consumers resolve informal complaints.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) officially launched the Lab Partnering Service (LPS), an on-line, single access point platform for investors, innovators, and institutions to identify, locate, and obtain information from DOE’s 17 national laboratories. This tool will provide industry with a more efficient way to harness technical expertise and intellectual property housed at DOE’s labs.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 17, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency of Health Care Costs for Consumers."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Indicted for Trafficking Turtles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that James D. Falkowski, 42, of Buffalo, New York, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a markup for Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On July 9, 2018, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, sentenced Jack Lee Coleman, age 65, of Wapello, Iowa, to 360 months in prison for production of child pornography announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Coleman was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following his imprisonment, pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and comply with the sex offender registry requirements upon release.
