News from January 2019
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) this week announced fiscal 2018 fees awarded to four contractors supporting cleanup of EM’s former gaseous diffusion plants in southern Ohio and west Kentucky.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to United States Attorney John H. Durham seeking an update on his ongoing criminal investigation into Former FBI General Counsel James Baker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: A California man was charged in federal court after receiving a shipment of one kilogram of suspected fentanyl while staying in Cleveland.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM recently appointed seven new members to its Savannah River Site (SRS) Citizens Advisory Board (CAB).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Robert Scott was sentenced today to 65 months for his part in the robbery of Jared the Galleria of Jewelry on Monday, December 4, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers developed an innovative tool to remotely explore and sample potentially hazardous areas of a former nuclear processing facility for the first time in nearly two decades.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and House Democratic leaders today highlighted the dramatic impacts of the government shutdown on Indian Country and on our natural resources and public lands at a recently concluded hearing of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. The event...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Roger Anthony Williams, of Washington, D.C., has admitted to firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and its cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory Site are on a challenging Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP) mission to segregate debris waste with high concentrations of radioactive isotopes for waste drums that meet criteria for permanent disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Jarrod Grimes, 40, of Inverness, Florida, a former Federal Bureau of Prisons official, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for unlawfully engaging in sexual activity with female inmates at the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson. Grimes will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Ukrainian men have been charged for their roles in a large-scale, international conspiracy to hack into the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) computer systems and profit by trading on critical information they stole, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey delivered the following remarks in support of H.J. Res. 27, a Continuing Resolution that would reopen the federal government through February 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: The Denver Police Department and the FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force Are Investigating a Denver Bank Robbery.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Two EM sites have saved more than $1.8 million by sharing heavy-duty equipment for large demolition activities, and the savings continue to grow.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection and Hanford tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) continuously strive to implement innovative technologies that improve worker safety and efficiency. One of the latest to hit the tank farms is easier to use than an ATM.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Randall Alan Hughes, 58, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 38 years in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for production of child pornography. After serving his prison sentence, Hughes will then be required to be on supervised release for the remainder of his life and register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the next two cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water cohort teams...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A group within Fluor Idaho, EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, has achieved a new record by working more than a dozen years without a recordable injury or first-aid incident.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM crews recently retrofitted lighting at the Central Waste Complex (CWC) at the Hanford Site, improving working conditions for facility personnel and saving nearly $70,000, with more savings to come.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted two cousins today on charges of aiding and abetting armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, in addition to convicting one cousin of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
