News from January 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: SAINT GEORGE, Utah - Deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a repeat immigration violator in Southwest Utah, Tuesday, who was convicted of spousal rape in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: The Defendants Used Social Media to Boast About Their Scheme and to Recruit Others.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed President Trump’s decision to propose a modernization of federal environmental review and permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at the first markup of the New Year to consider several energy bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, Asia Siddiqui was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. for her role in planning to build a bomb for use in a terrorist attack in the United States. Siddiqui and her co-defendant, Noelle...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at the first markup of the New Year to consider several energy bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after passage of nine energy bills during an Energy Subcommittee markup today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two federal inmates have pleaded guilty to escape from a Bureau of Prisons facility in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor tonight during consideration of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act, which was favorably reported out of the Committee in November...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee Markup of nine bills to reduce carbon pollution, create jobs and modernize infrastructure...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: CULLMAN, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Apex Roofing and Restoration LLC, and WW Restoration LLC for exposing employees to fall hazards after a 15-year-old worker suffered fatal injuries after a fall at a Cullman, Alabama, worksite. The companies face $159,118 in penalties.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor tonight during consideration of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act, which was favorably reported out of the Committee in November...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor tonight during consideration of H.R. 535, the PFAS Action Act, which was favorably reported out of the Committee in November...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, as the site for a planned major new nuclear physics research facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Judge David J. Hale sentenced Phillip Randolph Johnson Jr. of Marion County, Kentucky, to 180 months followed by 5 years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to a seven count federal indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Gregorio Xolotl-Hipolito, 42, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Mr. William...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after passage of nine energy bills during an Energy Subcommittee markup today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY) and Tom Carper (D-DE) released the following statements after the Senate unanimously passed America's Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Act. The ACE Act language served as a substitute amendment to H.R. 925.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Former Gulf Cartel Leader Convicted of International Drug Trafficking Conspiracy.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and six senators on the EPW Committee urged Paul Ray, President Trump's nominee to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), to address concerns raised by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board last week. Mr. Ray was confirmed by the Senate earlier today with a vote of 50-44.
