News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this evening following the announcement that the Trump Administration would stop making risk adjustment payments to insurance companies...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this evening following the announcement that the Trump Administration would stop making risk adjustment payments to insurance companies...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2018
News Release: KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. July 7, 2018 - Early this afternoon, a wildfire was reported in the wilderness of Kings Canyon National Park by a patrolling trail ranger. Named the East Creek Fire, it is currently ten-acres, and is burning two-thirds of a mile south of the Bubbs Creek Trail and west of the East Creek Trail, about eight and half miles east of Roads End. The greatest growth potential currently exists on the east/southeast side of the fire.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2018
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue members continue search efforts today for Brian Perri. Perri’s last known location was the summit of Mount Meeker (13,911 feet) on Saturday, June 30. Northern Colorado Helitack is again supporting today’s aerial search efforts. Also assisting Rocky Mountain...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Summer activities are going full throttle at Steamtown National Historic Site in downtown Scranton, including our ever exciting train excursions.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2018
News Release: Kemmerer, WY - Fossil Butte National Monument will be offering a three-part night sky event series over the summer. Each event will start at 8:00pm in the Visitor Center with a short presentation followed by the specialized activity for the night. All programs will end at 11:00pm, although people are free to come and go as they please. The schedule will be as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Sean Andrew Duncan, 22, of Sterling, Virginia, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for obstructing a counterterrorism investigation and receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky, today returned a four-count indictment charging Jamie Derickson, a former deputy of the Powell County Detention Center, with violating the civil rights of an arrestee by conspiring with inmates at the detention center to assault the arrestee in a jail cell. Derickson is also charged with lying to the FBI about the assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: North American Power Group Ltd. (NAPG) and its owner and president, Michael Ruffatto, have agreed to pay the United States $14.4 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy and Technology Laboratory (NETL), located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: A manufacturer and exporter of wind turbines based in the People’s Republic of China was sentenced today for stealing trade secrets from AMSC, a U.S.-based company formerly known as American Superconductor Inc., announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: The owner, chief executive officer, and former president of a Texas construction company, HERC Solutions, was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for defrauding the U.S. Department of State out of $1.37 million. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: Today, Mexican authorities extradited Sinaloa Cartel leader Damaso Lopez Nuñez, also known as “El Licenciado,” to the United States to face drug trafficking charges filed in the Eastern District of Virginia.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON--Federal banking agencies today issued a statement detailing rules and associated reporting requirements that are immediately affected by the enactment of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA).
By Commerce News Now | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and a delegation from the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) announced over $1 billion in private-sector deals during their mission to four sub-Saharan nations. PAC-DBIA members expect to quickly conclude more than $2 billion in additional deals in the coming days.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 6, 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 cast iron soil pipe fittings from the People’s Republic of China.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JB Restaurants Inc., which operates 14 Jack in the Box fast-food restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, will pay $511,117 in back wages and liquidated damages to 152 employees after a U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found the employer violated ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: BALTIMORE, MD – To help establish prevailing wage rates, the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a survey of building construction projects in several Maryland counties.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta issued the following statement regarding the June 2018 Employment Situation report: "The June unemployment rate moved up to 4.0%, as 601,000 Americans entered the labor force. Americans rejoining the workforce represented their largest share of ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2018
News Release: ARLINGTON, VA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) today announced a Request for Information (RFI) on a Retrospective Study of the final rule entitled "Lowering Miners' Exposure to Respirable Coal Mine Dust, Including Continuous Personal Dust Monitors" in the Federal Register.
By USDA Wire | Jul 6, 2018
The US Agriculture Department published a one page rule on July 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
