News from January 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Promoting American Innovation and Jobs: Legislation to Phase Down the Use of Hydrofluorocarbons."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Waldo Nahle, 37, of Albuquerque, New Mexico was sentenced in federal court in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Jan. 10 to more than 20 years (250 months) in prison on three counts of distribution of methamphetamine, two counts of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today regarding their concerns over reports of increasing...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. -- The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District is conducting slash pile burning Jan. 3 - March 30 at multiple areas in Nye Valley, as part of the Wildland Urban Interface fuels reduction projects around the communities of Manhattan and Ione.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Michael Lorenzo Martinez Castoreno, age 35, of Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on July 15, 2019, to possession of stolen firearms. Senior United States District ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney applauds law enforcement. WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Crime across the Northern District of West Virginia, particularly violent crime, is falling. Nationwide, violent crime has decreased 3% from 2017 to 2018, according to the FBI. This is largest yearly decrease since 2013. In the Northern...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it is seeking public nominations for three citizens’ advisory councils affiliated with specific sites on the BLM’s National Conservation Lands. These citizen-based councils assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man has been charged federally after allegedly shooting a United States Postal Service mail carrier.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Environment and Climate Change hearing on “Promoting American Innovation and Jobs: Legislation to Phase Down the Use of Hydrofluorocarbons:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Johnny Lee Thornton, Jr. (27, Fort Myers) to four years and seven months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm used in the offense. Thornton had pleaded guilty on Oct. 23, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee on Foreign Affairs provided additional evidence to the Committee on the Judiciary to be included as part of the official record that will be transmitted to the Senate along with the Articles of Impeachment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Jan. 13, 2020, Jarrett Michael Yazzie (42), of Leupp, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 150 months in prison to run concurrent with his sentence of 120 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Yazzie had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury and assault by strangulation or suffocation by a spouse or intimate partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: A man who fired multiple rounds from a handgun at a group of people celebrating someone’s graduation was sentenced today to more than eleven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A member of a drug-trafficking organization today admitted his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in Camden, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its January edition of the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), including for the first time energy forecasts for 2021. Notably, EIA forecasts that the United States will continue to be a net exporter of total crude oil and ...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Environment and Climate Change hearing on “Promoting American Innovation and Jobs: Legislation to Phase Down the Use of Hydrofluorocarbons:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today regarding their concerns over reports of increasing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Anthony Paul Salazar, 23, of Las Vegas, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on Jan. 14 to a charge of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine (cocaine base).
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is holding Public Information Sessions on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed LaGuardia AirTrain tonight and tomorrow night in Queens, N.Y.
