News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today requested Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) schedule a hearing to examine misuse of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) program by pharmaceutical manufacturers in an effort to block, impede, or delay generic competitors from coming to market.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today sent letters to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Larry Page to probe the companies’ representation of third-party access to consumer data, and the collection and use of audio recording data as well as location information via iPhone and Android devices.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after touring facilities with their colleagues where children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border have been held.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Last week, Waste Management Symposia (WMS) notified DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM) Defense-Related Uranium Mine (DRUM) Program Team employees Russel Edge and John Elmer that the paper they co-authored on LM’s DRUM Program for the Waste Management Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in March was awarded...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that the ex-wife of a former warden for the Avoyelles Correctional Center pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Trump signed into law H.R. 931, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We believe that our diplomatic footprint around the globe must represent the diversity of our country while utilizing the talent of our first-rate foreign service officers and civil servants. With this in mind, we are extremely concerned by the pattern we have observed of the White...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today sent letters to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Larry Page to probe the companies’ representation of third-party access to consumer data, and the collection and use of audio recording data as well as location information via iPhone and Android devices.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Great Basin National Park will be conducting a stream treatment in Snake Creek on July 24th and 25th. The treatment will restore habitat for the native Bonneville cutthroat trout and fulfill the Park’s obligation to the 2006 Conservation Agreement and Conservation Strategy for Bonneville Cutthroat Trout...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Duane E. Griffin, 37, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced to serve 63 months in prison for arson, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)-New York Field Division.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), University of Alabama’s Safe State On-site Consultation Program, and Holder Construction Group LLC, have signed a strategic partnership agreement to promote worker safety and health during the construction of the Mustang Widows Creek Projects in Bridgeport.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former professional basketball player was sentenced to six years in federal prison Monday on charges related to an extensive charity fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Darrius Lamar Smith, 31, of Birmingham, Alabama, was sentenced on June 29, 2018, to 30 months’ imprisonment on a federal charge of felon in possession of a firearm. Court documents show that Smith’s prior felony...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after President Trump signed into law H.R. 931, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that on Friday, July 6, 2018, two Juneau men were sentenced in federal court, in separate cases, for federal firearms offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today requested Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) schedule a hearing to examine misuse of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) program by pharmaceutical manufacturers in an effort to block, impede, or delay generic competitors from coming to market.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that several crystal methamphetamine dealers from the western part of the Upper Peninsula received long prison terms. The Honorable Paul L. Maloney, U.S. District Judge, issued the following sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH STEELE, also known as “Joey," 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: MANHATTAN, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister will open the 2018 Human Trafficking Conference July 10 in Manhattan, Kan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Roane County man pled guilty today to a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Devin Wolfe entered his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the West Virginia State Police.
