News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Bazil N. Peone, age 31, of Wellpinit, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Feb. 15, 2018, to possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of pure methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), announced today a hearing for Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards Program (CFATS) - A Progress Report."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, June 23, and on Sunday, June 24, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a series of living history programs and ranger-guided tours exploring the stories of the young men who grew up in the peaceful fields of one battlefield, only to experience the horrors of another as we commemorate the centennial of World War I.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: DENVER, Colo. -- As the next step in aligning federal habitat conservation efforts with state wildlife management plans, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold two meetings in Colorado beginning June 26, 2018, to provide information and answer possible questions regarding the recently released draft amendments to sage-grouse plans finalized in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a former Central Intelligence Agency case officer today on espionage charges related to his transmission of classified documents to an agent of the People’s Republic of China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Donald Rice, formerly of Middletown, was sentenced on May 29, 2018, by Chief U. S. District Court Judge Leonard P. Stark to 48 months imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - U.S. Attorney William C. Lamar and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze announced today that a Memphis man was sentenced in Mississippi on Thursday for his role in a human trafficking scheme. Mario D. Collins of Memphis, Tennessee was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills for trafficking a victim from Georgia to Tennessee and ultimately to Oxford, Mississippi for commercial sex purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Blake King, age 19, of Chicago and Bernard Graham, age 25, of Calumet City were charged today by criminal complaint, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: The Pala Band of Mission Indians, like many tribes, has turned to renewable energy as a means of lowering energy costs and gaining independence from the grid. In the last three years, the Tribe has received funding support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs toward two separate renewable energy projects-the first of which is now complete, and providing significant benefits to the Tribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Andrew Rowley, age 28, of Watertown, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 57 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also referred to as “ecstasy," announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
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By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney will lead a trade mission to Japan June 11-15, joined by numerous U.S. business and state government leaders seeking to expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has issued final environmental documents for the proposed approval of annual transfers of up to 15,000 acre-feet per year of available Central Valley Project water supplies over a nine-year period.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth video in a series featuring committee members highlighting their legislative efforts to combat the opioid crisis. These videos will highlight just a handful of the 57 legislative solutions the committee advanced to the full House in May.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued a memorandum outlining the initial enforcement of the standard for respirable crystalline silica in general industry and maritime. Most provisions of the standard become enforceable on June 23, 2018. The standard establishes a new 8-hour time-weighted average permissible exposure limit, action level, and associated ancillary requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Biloxi, Mississippi physician was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for his involvement in a $3 million compounding pharmacy fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: POINT ARENA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office and the Point Arena community invite the public to come out and celebrate “Discover the Coast," on World Oceans Day, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 9, at the Point Arena-Stornetta unit of the California Coastal National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Blake King, age 19, of Chicago and Bernard Graham, age 25, of Calumet City were charged today by criminal complaint, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., today condemned the Trump Justice Department for their decision not to defend federal law in a court case filed by Texas to overturn key pieces of the Affordable Care Act.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
Release: OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry attended the debut to meet with the ORNL team and see first-hand this monumental supercomputer.
