News from October 2019
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: HILO, HAWAII, Oct. 16, 2019-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, in cooperation with Pacific Biosciences and Penn State University, have published the first genome of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) in the journal Gigascience and they did it from a single caught-in-the-wild specimen.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a joint hearing with Subcommittees Communications and Technology and Consumer Protection and Commerce titled, “Fostering a Healthier Internet to Protect Consumers."
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's hearing on the emerging public health threat of e-cigarettes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ROMEATRIUS MOSS, 39, a nurse and Air Force Major stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, has pleaded guilty to criminal health care fraud in which she accepted kickbacks for referring TRICARE beneficiaries to pharmacies furnishing compounded drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: GULFPORT, Miss. - The Drug Enforcement Administration announced David Quevedo Martinez, 40, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by a senior U.S. district judge to life in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Martinez was also ordered to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ROMEATRIUS MOSS, 39, a nurse and Air Force Major stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, has pleaded guilty to criminal health care fraud in which she accepted kickbacks for referring TRICARE beneficiaries to pharmacies furnishing compounded drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a total of $1 million in CALFED Water Use Efficiency grants to two California projects that will conserve around 4,000 acre-feet annually and improve infrastructure for fiscal year 2020. Combined with local cost-share contributions, these projects are expected to implement about $2.7 million in water management improvements during the next two years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 43-year old U.S. citizen has been ordered to federal prison following his admission that he possessed child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Donavan Lyle Herrera pleaded guilty Feb. 6, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 16, 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 titled “Examining the Impacts of Disease on Wildlife Conservation and Management."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 180 days of home confinement; three years’ probation; fined a total of $20,000.00; and ordered to pay $156,902.89 in restitution on his conviction of unlawfully prescribing buprenorphine and committing health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a markup of H.R. 886, the Veteran Court Coordination Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 39-year-old Corpus Christi resident and Texas Syndicate member has been ordered to federal prison for trafficking cocaine and possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. John Mendez aka John Manuel Mendez pleaded guilty May 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Joseph Guida, an employee of New York City Department of Environmental Protection, pleaded guilty today to using a stash house in Mastic, Long Island to produce ecstasy (MDMA) and grow marijuana. The plea was entered before United States District Judge Joan M. Azrack at the federal courthouse in Central...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to serve a total sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment on his conviction for violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued an order to Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC (Plaquemines LNG) approving exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Plaquemines LNG Project. The Project will be located on the Mississippi River, in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana approximately 20 miles from the Port of New Orleans.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 228,600 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico. Of the total, 137,160 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year and 91,440 metric tons is for delivery during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California woman became the ninth parent to be sentenced in connection with the college admissions case.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Today, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at the subcommittee's hearing to examine a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed rule to increase accountability in child nutrition programs...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today demanding responses to several outstanding oversight requests of the Trump Administration’s implementation...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Communications and Technology and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing entitled “Fostering a Healthier Internet to Protect Consumers:"
