News from February 2020
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) issued a request for information (RFI) for coal/biomass co-firing emission profiles and the impacts of those technologies on carbon capture systems.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Demolition is underway on the last laboratory facility remaining at Oak Ridge's East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), as EM moves toward completing all major teardowns at the former uranium enrichment complex by the end of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Philipsburg, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, and immediately following, was sentenced to two months in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Assistant Director Bob Kolasky, U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chairwoman Christy McCormick, National Association of Secretaries of State President and Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, National Association of State Election Directors...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Congratulations to the four participants in the Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program at Capitol Reef National Park in 2020. Each artist brings a unique talent and will share their interpretations of the park’s resources and meanings in ways that engage the public through a variety of artistic mediums such...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) opening remarks at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Autonomous Vehicles: Promises and Challenges of Evolving Automotive Technologies."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Neal Lee Morris, age 43, of Ada, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in an international money laundering scheme designed to hide the illicit proceeds of business email compromise (BEC) schemes.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Today, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, delivered the following statement in response to the Democrats' Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute, as prepared for delivery, at a committee markup of bipartisan legislation, H.R. 5800, the Ban Surprise Billing Act ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Glasscock, Starr, and Sterling counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Proposal: Falling Short of Protecting Public Health:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Tampa - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez and Acting Miami Field Office Director Jim Martin, of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced today their ongoing commitment to combat illegal immigration and reduce violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Vincent Ingino, age 28, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was found guilty of two counts of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance resulting in death after a five-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The head of a Houston-based company that was the subsidiary of a Chinese company that developed stolen trade secrets was sentenced Monday to sixteen months in prison and ordered to forfeit $342,424.96 by U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Clint Registe, 38, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 10 years in federal prison, after previously pleading guilty to illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. The federal charge stems from an investigation into the death of Brittney Sparks, who was killed by a gunshot wound on July 20, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), responds to the U.S. District Court rejection of a lawsuit from a coalition of state attorneys general to block the T-Mobile-Sprint merger...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 17 Montana counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to recent weather events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: Conspiracy spanned Northwest Iowa to Minnesota and South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to more than nine years in prison on a federal gun charge, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. U.S. District Judge Clay Land sentenced Arrington Culpepper, 34, of Columbus, to 115 months in prison, after Culpepper pleaded guilty to one count possession of a stolen firearm. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2020
News Release: HONOLULU, Hawaii - Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (Singapore) PTE LTD. (“Bernhard"), a vessel operating company, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of bilge waste from the tank vessel Topaz Express, a felony violation...
