News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations hearing entitled, “DOE’s Mounting Cleanup Costs: Billions in Environmental Liability and Growing":
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: * East Entrance to Lake Village (Sylvan Pass) and Lake Village to Canyon Village will open Friday, May 3, at 8 a.m. to public motorists.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today on the House floor during debate of H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, which would prevent President Trump from withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. H.R. 9 was favorably reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 4, 2019 by a vote of 29-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael S. Flynn, executive and co-owner of an insulation contractor, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for his role in multiple schemes to rig bids in violation of the antitrust laws and to engage in criminal fraud on insulation contracts, marking the second conviction in this ongoing investigation, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WAYNE JEROME CELESTINE, M.D., age 58, a physician who practiced in Gretna and resided in New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to two counts in the Second Superseding Indictment, which charged him with illegally dispensing controlled substances and money laundering.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), from today’s Members’ Day Hearing.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: This subject is of enormous importance to the nation, and especially for local communities near contaminated sites, such as those at Hanford. We know all too well the issues that the Office of Environmental Management (EM) handles. The threat of potential environmental disaster and pollution persists...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Green Energy Fraudster Convicted at Trial for Scamming Multiple Federal Agencies and his Customers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-In related criminal cases, Cole Williams Griffiths and Raleigh Dragon Lau pleaded guilty on April 22, 2019, for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic marijuana grown in Hood River, Oregon and Portland to Virginia, Texas, and Florida.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today on the House floor during debate of H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, which would prevent President Trump from withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. H.R. 9 was favorably reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 4, 2019 by a vote of 29-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Gas Marketer B. Charles Rogers Gas and Three Individuals Agree to Pay $4.375 Million to Resolve Royalty Fraud Allegations.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: The Federal government, acting through the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, known as PHMSA has an important responsibility to develop and enforce regulations for the safe, reliable, and environmentally sound operation of the nation’s 2.7 million miles of pipelines. Pipelines are...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Gang Leader Dante Bailey Faces Mandatory Life Sentence in Federal Prison; Fifth Defendant Convicted of Drug Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two parents charged in the college admissions case pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with paying a total of $600,000 to facilitate their children’s admission to college.
By State Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in support of H.R.9, the Climate Action Now Act...
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled “Legislative Hearing on a Discussion Draft Bill, Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019."
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The State of Pipeline Safety and Security in America":
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 38-year-old Brownsville man has been sentenced for possession with intent to distribute 15.12 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Vicente Manuel Murillo, of Brownsville, pleaded guilty July 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury indicted a Tuscaloosa man for being a felon in possession of a firearm announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
