News from April 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on President Trump’s Strategy to Restore American Nuclear Energy Leadership.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: A new edition of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) Site Management Guide (SMG) is now available online.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman today sent a letter to hospital executives in the Western Kentucky, asking them to provide details to law enforcement about individuals and companies that might be acquiring or selling medical supplies for the purpose of hoarding or price gouging.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - One of six defendants in a Columbus-to-West Virginia methamphetamine ring pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court via video conference to a drug conspiracy crime punishable by 10 years up to life in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) today requesting an investigation into the recent dismissal of Dr. Rick Bright from his central role responding to the coronavirus pandemic, allegedly for political reasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Jonathan Ray Adams a/k/a Jon Boy, 34, of Asheville, was sentenced to 163 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Adams to serve five years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement on the release of the Trump administration's report titled “Strategy to Restore American Nuclear Energy Leadership." Currently, there is no active uranium production in all of North America for the first time since World War II.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: New Haven - John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY ESTRIDGE, 39, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for escaping from a Hartford halfway house.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Maryland U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur and Special Agent in Charge Kelly R. Jackson of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Washington Field Office are again warning taxpayers to be alert to phishing scams relating to COVID-19 economic impact payments that are already being seen. The community must remain on guard against scammers who are striving to steal personal information and money.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Homestead, Fla. - With lighter winds out of the north today, fire crews continue to make significant progress on containing the Sunday Afternoon Fire in Everglades National Park. Today’s aerial reconnaissance showed almost no additional growth. Containment of the fire has increased to 35%, up from 20% yesterday on park lands and 80% on state lands. The fire remains at approximately 1,291 acres.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report requested by Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) finds that oil and gas companies were sitting on 9,950 unused permits to drill as of the end of fiscal year 2019. The report finds that the Trump administration’s...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 198,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on reports that Chinese Communist Party agents were behind a massive disinformation campaign aimed at sowing panic in America amid the coroanvirus outbreak.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Emergency Benefits Prompted by COVID-19 (Washington, D.C., April 22, 2020) – Today, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced emergency benefit increases have reached $2.0 billion per month for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households across all 50 states and 3 territories ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Pandemic EBT to Feed Children during COVID-19 National Emergency (Washington, D.C., April 22, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Alabama has been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Federal authorities announced today that an ongoing cooperative effort between law enforcement and a number of private-sector companies, including multiple internet domain providers and registrars, has disrupted hundreds of internet domains used to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to commit fraud and other crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) celebrated its latest accomplishments and reflected on half a century of the division’s impact on environmental and natural resource law in the United States. “This report covers my first ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: APPLETON, WI ‒ The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited MODS International Inc. – a fabrication company that converts shipping containers into commercial and residential structures – for exposing employees to multiple hazards at their facility in Appleton, Wisconsin. The company faces penalties of $216,299 for seven repeat and seven serious safety and health violations.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: LAVISTA, NE – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for exit, storage, compressed gas and walking working surface hazards at a LaVista, Nebraska, store. The national discount retailer faces $539,934 in penalties.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: BLOOMINGTON, IL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for exit, storage and fire hazards at a Bloomington, Illinois, store. The national discount retailer faces $233,255 in penalties for three repeat violations.
