News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 762, the Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2019, by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report entitled, “Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Could Improve Program and Project Management by Better Classifying Work and Following Leading Practices."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
Release: Today, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) took significant steps in the implementation of the National Quantum Initiative Act, signed into law by President Trump in December. As called for in the Act, OSTP chartered the National Quantum Coordination Office, which will work ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Corey Damond Smith, Jr. (23, Tampa) guilty of distributing fentanyl resulting in death. Smith faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 6, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) have issued the following statement regarding the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report entitled, “Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Could Improve Program and Project Management by Better Classifying Work and Following Leading Practices."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL VAZQUEZ, also known as “Chino," 21, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a gun trafficking ring and a shooting in 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement after the House passed two bills by voice vote that advance the Department of Energy’s environmental remediation efforts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement after the House passed two bills by voice vote that advance the Department of Energy’s environmental remediation efforts.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today on the passage of the Responsible Disposal Reauthorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 347) and the Reauthorization of the West Valley Demonstration Project (H.R. 1138):
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Wende Terrill, 48, of Maryland Heights, MO, was convicted by a jury today in U.S. District Court in St. Louis for one count of wire fraud. Terrill’s trial took place before U.S. District Court Judge Rodney Sippel and set a sentencing hearing for June 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: New Mexico residents Antoine Mitchell, Moses D. Dickens III, and Christopher Dominguez, were all sentenced in a Cheyenne federal court recently after pleading guilty to crimes related to a violent crime spree that included armed pharmacy robberies in Wyoming and New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Abel Eduardo Cristerna-Gonzalez, age 27, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2019, to 188 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-John M. Wasson, 74, of Irrigon, Oregon, was sentenced today to five years’ probation including 60 days in a community corrections facility for misusing a mining claim on the North Fork of the John Day River in the Umatilla National Forest resulting in the depredation of government property. Wasson was also ordered to pay $28,817 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) released the following statement today on the passage of the Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2019 (H.R. 762):
By EPA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) have issued the following statement regarding the release of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report entitled, “Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Could Improve Program and Project Management by Better Classifying Work and Following Leading Practices."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Feb. 28, 2019, Francis Macie, Linda Wainwright, Desiree Wells-Cooper, and Juan A. Sanchez, Jr., all of Brattleboro, were arrested and charged with violations of the federal Controlled Substances Act in connection with drug activity at 33 Oak Street, Apt. #4, in Brattleboro, Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Wende Terrill, 48, of Maryland Heights, MO, was convicted by a jury today in U.S. District Court in St. Louis for one count of wire fraud. Terrill’s trial took place before U.S. District Court Judge Rodney Sippel and set a sentencing hearing for June 20, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. -The Elk River Trail in the Headwaters Forest Reserve is blocked temporarily because of two impassable landslides approximately two and half miles from the trailhead parking lot.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after the announcement Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb will resign...
