News from February 2020
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on their recent announcements: $2.7 billion for infrastructure projects and $40 million to reduce lead in drinking water.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: For Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management will publish six draft supplemental environmental impact statements (SEISs) on Friday for management of Greater Sage-Grouse habitat on public lands in seven Western states, highlighting the collaborative process undergone in 2019 to develop plans that reflected the needs of Western communities and Greater Sage Grouse habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of State College, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to time-served on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The defendant had been detained pretrial on this charge since June of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $90.32 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to airports in Illinois. This investment in Illinois’ airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) praised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler on their recent announcements: $2.7 billion for infrastructure projects and $40 million to reduce lead in drinking water.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Gerald Joseph Braud, Jr., age 46, of Gonzales, Louisiana, to serve 180 months in federal prison following his conviction for coercion and enticement of a minor. Braud will also be required to serve five years of supervised release and register as a convicted sex offender upon his release from prison.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KWASI GYAMBIBI, 41, of New Canaan, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for health care fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Top Democrats from the House Ways and Means Committee, House Committee on Oversight and Reform, House Judiciary Committee, and Senate Finance Committee yesterday called for the Trump Administration to withdraw a Social Security Administration (SSA) proposal that would make it more difficult...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $15.74 million in airport safety and infrastructure grants to 25 airports in Iowa. This investment in Iowa’s airports is part of a $520.5 million national investment in America’s airports that was announced today by Secretary Chao.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Grants will help keep our nation's airports in good shape and make air travel a better experience for passengers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Feb. 12, 2020, U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Jose David Santiago-Curet, age 23, of York, Pennsylvania, to five years’ imprisonment followed by five years on supervised release for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: In El Paso today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against 27-year-old Gregory Keith Robinson, and 26-year-old Jaquan Bray for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson, El Paso Division, and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Matthew J. Hudak, Big Bend Sector.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $100 million over five years for research on artificial photosynthesis for the production of fuels from sunlight. The funding will support the establishment of one large or possibly two smaller DOE Energy ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced that next week’s Health Subcommittee hearing will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 1:30 pm in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 HHS Budget and Oversight of the Coronavirus Outbreak."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former city administrator of Fredonia was sentenced today to 90 months in federal prison for child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Dunbar Armored Inc. employee was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for orchestrating the theft of nearly $300,000 in cash out of Dunbar’s storage facility in Vernon.
