News from September 2018
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed four bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee bills that will modernize our nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve and address key challenges facing America’s nuclear energy industry.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders from committees of jurisdiction in both the House and Senate today announced an agreement on sweeping legislation to combat the opioid crisis. In June, the House passed H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act by a vote of 396-14. On September 17th, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jamar McMillan, age 34, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2018, to 20 years’ imprisonment and four years supervised release by Chief United States District Court Judge...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives today passed several health care bills, including H.R. 6378, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
Release: PITTSBURGH - It seems all-too-common for Transportation Security Administration officers to be detecting guns at Pittsburgh International Airport.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - With its diverse flora and fauna, the landscape of the Savannah River Site (SRS), provides both an essential and rare opportunity for undergraduate students at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) to receive training in the unique discipline of radioecology.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew Schneider is proud to announce the establishment of the Southeast Michigan Regional Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Strike Force. This is an unprecedented step to co-locate so many federal as well as state and local resources to address the unique challenges in the southeast Michigan region.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Peter Feldman to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A significant effort at the Hanford Site will reduce the risk of below-ground uranium reaching the Columbia River.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM GAUVIN, 43, of Andover, Massachusetts, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: $754,551 Awarded to Two Tribes in the District of South Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 80 National Park Service employees from 34 parks and 19 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter closed areas of parks until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 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), released the following statement on the decision by a federal judge to place the grizzly bear in Wyoming back on the endangered species list.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian Douglas Sheaffer, age 56, of Port Royal, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Sept. 19, 2018, by a federal grand jury with ten counts of mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dontray Johnson, a/k/a “Gambino," “Bino," and “Tray," age 33, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today to racketeering and drug conspiracies related to their participation in the gang activities of the Murdaland Mafia Piru (MMP), a subset of the Bloods gang. As part of his gang activities, Johnson admitted committing two murders, and to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former chief financial officer of Bankrate Inc., a publicly traded financial services and marketing company formerly headquartered in North Palm Beach, Florida, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for orchestrating an accounting and securities fraud scheme that caused more than $25 million in shareholder losses.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders from committees of jurisdiction in both the House and Senate today announced an agreement on sweeping legislation to combat the opioid crisis. In June, the House passed H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act by a vote of 396-14. On September 17th, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Shahime Ludvig, Jr., 20, of St. Thomas was arrested today on a complaint charging him with possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert, announced. Ludvig made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and was detained pending further proceedings.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Peter Feldman to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Christopher A. Hutchinson, 30, of Cushing, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to two counts of Seaman’s Manslaughter for causing two deaths at sea.
