News from January 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and senior member of the committee Representative Dina Titus (D-NV), sent a letter to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) Emily Murphy demanding responses to the...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews this month began a $4.7 million project that will reduce maintenance and operations costs at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) and relocate employees stationed at this decades-old facility.
By State Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today welcomed unanimous passage in the House of Representatives of legislation to impose new sanctions on Syria’s Assad regime and its supporters and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAVELLEOUS PURCELL, a/k/a “King Casino," a/k/a “Mike Hill," was sentenced today by United States District Judge Denise L. Cote to 216 months in prison for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, and other related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beckley, West Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to five thefts of specialized mine equipment that occurred in Indiana and Armstrong Counties, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) crews soared to new heights to minimize safety hazards for employees working to replace roofs at the Hanford Site while avoiding costs for taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: FBI Richmond Seeks Information on Abingdon, Virginia Bank Robbery Subject.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Four large corrosion-resistant process vessels recently arrived at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), marking a significant step in the effluent management facility (EMF) construction.
By State Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 31, co-sponsored by House Foreign Affairs Committee lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and sponsored by Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY). This bipartisan legislation will increase international pressure on Assad and his backers,...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hands-on training in a full-scale mock-up facility is critical to about 40 new employees with EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) as they prepare for work on the Hanford Site’s Central Plateau.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Edward Wright, of Keyser, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 103 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation's Security, Safety and Law Enforcement Director Karen Knight named John A. Barrows as Reclamation's chief security officer. Barrows will oversee the Security Program, a risk management program designed to protect Reclamation’s facilities as well as employees, contractors, and the public at or near those facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that EMANUEL RICHARDSON, a/k/a “Book," a former men’s basketball coach at the University of Arizona (“Arizona"), pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to taking approximately $20,000 in cash bribes...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A Savannah River Site (SRS) facility has produced more than 30 million gallons of decontaminated salt solution mixed with a cement-like grout since beginning operations in 1990, a vital cog in the system that removes waste from tanks and moves it ultimately into safe storage.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) and Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman-designate Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) today released legislation to end the Trump Shutdown and reopen the Department of Homeland Security through February 28. The legislation is expected to be considered in the House this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beckley, West Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to five thefts of specialized mine equipment that occurred in Indiana and Armstrong Counties, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has begun operating a significant tank closure project at the Savannah River Site (SRS), representing a major step forward in the liquid waste cleanup mission at SRS and across the DOE complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Carl Cedric Booth, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months incarceration for distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Gregory E. Demske, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS-OIG"), Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of HHS-OIG’s New York Regional Office, William F.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement in response to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar’s refusal to testify at an oversight hearing on the Trump Administration’s inhumane Family Separation Policy...
