News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Google, and its subsidiary YouTube, to settle allegations that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without parental consent...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement today after the Auto Alliance and Global Automakers announced a voluntary commitment to add rear seat reminder systems to new vehicles by Model Year 2025 or sooner in order to help prevent children from dying in hot cars...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted two new final rules from the Department of Energy (DOE) rolling back lightbulb efficiency standards...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement in response to the seven-hour climate crisis town hall hosted by CNN with 10 Democratic presidential candidates.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, a Prattville, Alabama resident, Candace Brie Betances, 43, received an 18-month sentence for submitting false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The sentence follows Betances’s guilty plea to one count of submitting false claims to the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, today announced the Baltimore Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Strike Force, a new initiative designed to combat violent crime in Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Drug Maker Mallinckrodt Agrees to Pay Over $15 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Liability for “Wining and Dining" Doctors.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: The Afterbay ramp at the Afterbay river launch is a popular launch site on the Bighorn River. On a busy morning you can look down river and often see 10 or more drift boats moving along the river. The end of the ramp has received significant damage from both water erosion and breakage. There is a jagged ramp edge and significant drop off to the river. During low river levels, launching can be challenging.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted two new final rules from the Department of Energy (DOE) rolling back lightbulb efficiency standards...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, Sept. 3, a vehicle was involved in an incident that began in the Alpine Visitor Center parking lot in Rocky Mountain National Park. The driver of the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed the wrong way in front of the Alpine Visitor Center when it struck a stopped...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Anthony Leone, 55, of Clarence, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to unlawful possession of a controlled substance and making material false statements. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, was arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge Maureen P. Kelly last week on charges of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement on the retirement of Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX). Rep. Flores serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is a member of the Communications and Technology, Energy, and Environment and Climate Change subcommittees.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Auto Alliance and Global Automakers detailed their voluntary commitment to add rear seat reminder systems - to prevent children from dying in hot cars - to new vehicles by Model Year 2025...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: A Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison for murdering a postal worker during a road rage incident in Dallas last February, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: ALBANY - A known methamphetamine dealer was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his crimes, said U.S. Attorney Charles “Charlie" Peeler. Terrence Lamont Brooks, 36, of Albany, Georgia previously entered a guilty plea in May 2019 to Distribution of Methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Leslie Gardner sentenced Mr. Brooks to 192 months in prison and five years supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Patrick Pietschmann, of Greenwood, West Virginia, has admitted to failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement in response to the seven-hour climate crisis town hall hosted by CNN with 10 Democratic presidential candidates.
