News from September 2018
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the House of Representatives unanimously passed S. 3021, the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Kyle Stephen Thompson, age 33, of Burtonsville, Maryland, on 18 counts of production of child pornography. The jury deliberated less than 30 minutes before reaching its guilty verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Winston-Salem, North Carolina resident, who is also licensed as an attorney in Georgia, was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for aiding and assisting in the preparation of fraudulent tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney Richard Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Last year, Republicans had a once-in-a-generation opportunity to work with Democrats to simplify our tax code and create a system that truly benefits small businesses. Instead, Republicans enacted a partisan, reckless tax cut for the wealthy and the well-connected.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, co-authored by U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), the Chairman and Ranking Member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and agreed upon this week by congressional negotiators, includes key provisions ...
By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We are extremely alarmed by the Trump Administration’s policy of remaining silent in international fora about racism and xenophobia and declining to condemn hate speech and incitement. It’s outrageous that any administration, regardless of political ideology, would refuse to stand...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
Release: MOSCOW, RUSSIA- Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry met with the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Alexander Novak. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed ways in which America and Russia, two of the world’s top producers of natural gas and leading producers of oil can work ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -. Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 6510 (U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah), the Restore Our Parks and Public Lands Act. “As America’s beloved national parks buckle under the weight of broken pipes, crumbling roads, and other incomplete projects, additional funding...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), announced that the following committee activity scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, has been postponed due to changes to the House calendar...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Zaid Bader Jacob, 49, of West Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “Air Quality Impacts of Wildfires: Mitigation and Management Strategies:"
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: Wind Cave National Park, S.D. - Planning is underway to burn 676 acres of land surrounding the park’s developed area this fall and 669 acres adjacent to the Elk Mountain Campground next spring. The fall burn could occur as early as the week of October 1st.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 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), and committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) released the following statements on the House of Representatives passing S. 3021, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. The House passed the legislation unanimously by voice vote.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on EPW, released the following statements on the House of Representatives passing S. 3021, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. The House passed the legislation unanimously by voice vote.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated in their latest Short-Term Energy Outlook that the United States is now the largest global crude oil producer, likely surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia. In February, U.S. crude oil production exceeded that of Saudi Arabia for the first time in more than two decades. In June and August, the United States surpassed Russia in crude oil production for the first time since February 1999.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Tyler Twombly, 33, of Laconia, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
Release: Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Ohio Department of Agriculture announced that they have eliminated the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) from Monroe Township in Clermont County, Ohio. This announcement comes just months ...
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House passed the Rescuing Animals With Rewards (RAWR) Act (H.R. 6197), which uses the State Department’s existing global rewards program to target transnational wildlife traffickers. This legislation builds on the success of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) END Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016, which was signed into law last Congress and makes it U.S. policy to take immediate action to stop wildlife trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Las Vegas - Wildland fire officials lifted seasonal fire restrictions on public lands in Southern Nevada managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, Mt. Charleston Fire Protection District and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Sept. 12, 2018.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House passed the Ileana Ros-Lehtinen United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018 (S. 2497) to strengthen U.S.-Israel security assistance.
