News from August 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to Clinton County, Indiana, to make wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to support business growth throughout the region. The EDA grant, to be matched with $5.1 million in local funds, is expected to create 150 jobs, retain 650 jobs, and generate $37 million in private investment.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -The Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Republican Leaders of three Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittees, sent letters to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D. and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to ask about the federal agencies’ COVID-19 surveillance efforts, including the use of wastewater as a surveillance tool.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the Houston Independent School District has agreed to plead guilty in connection with her involvement in a scheme to use bribery and fraud to facilitate cheating on the ACT and SAT exams.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2020
Release: Platform Addresses At-Scale Integration of Energy Systems
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alex Cheney, age 55, of Moriah, New York, was sentenced today to 3 years of probation and 100 hours of community service for making a false statement to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in order to receive Individual Unemployability benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Mexican national wanted in his home country for drug-related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Aug. 10, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Mary Kettle, 36, Olean, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, butyryl fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Application Deadline Extended to Sept. 11, and Producers Who Have Approved Applications to Receive Final Payments (Washington, D.C., Aug. 11, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that additional commodities are covered by the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department released a report today on the need for Congress to update and improve the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the 74-year-old statute setting forth the procedures agencies must follow when regulating individuals, businesses, non-profits, and state and local government entities. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr issued the following statement in response to the resignation of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best: "I was disheartened to learn of the resignation of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. Her leadership and demonstrated commitment to her oath of office reflected all that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion, a/k/a “Jihadistsoldgier,” “Jihadinhear,” “Jihadinheart,” “Lionofthegood,” was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT), a Pakistan-based designated foreign terrorist ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced revised pricing for its Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF). The revised pricing reduces the interest rate spread on tax-exempt notes for each credit rating category by 50 basis points and reduces the amount by which the interest rate for taxable notes is adjusted relative to tax-exempt notes.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: EL PASO, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Texas MEP Contractors LLC – a plumbing contractor based in El Paso, Texas – has paid $804 in back wages to an employee wrongly denied paid sick leave for a qualifying reason covered under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, NC – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), a Charlotte, North Carolina, branch of Premier Transportation & Warehousing Inc. – a trucking and warehousing service based in Long Beach, California – has paid $3,116 in back wages after failing to provide an employee two weeks of paid sick leave after the worker received instructions from a healthcare provider to self-quarantine due to coronavirus concerns.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced two grants, totaling $1,834,214, awarded to the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to improve and promote its Short-Time Compensation program. Using Short-Time Compensation, employers can keep workers on the payroll at reduced work hours and those workers can supplement their reduced wages with a partial unemployment benefit payment.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, NC – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), a Charlotte, North Carolina, branch of Premier Transportation & Warehousing Inc. – a trucking and warehousing service based in Long Beach, California – has paid $3,116 in back wages after failing to provide an employee two weeks of paid sick leave after the worker received instructions from a healthcare provider to self-quarantine due to coronavirus concerns.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: EL PASO, TX – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Texas MEP Contractors LLC – a plumbing contractor based in El Paso, Texas – has paid $804 in back wages to an employee wrongly denied paid sick leave for a qualifying reason covered under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA) provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA).
By Labor Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced two grants, totaling $1,834,214, awarded to the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to improve and promote its Short-Time Compensation program. Using Short-Time Compensation, employers can keep workers on the payroll at reduced work hours and those workers can supplement their reduced wages with a partial unemployment benefit payment.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 11, 2020
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
