News from January 2020

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Violeta E. Manahan, age 59, from Dededo, Guam, was sentenced in the United States District Court of Guam to 41 months imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s proposed rollback of key parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA):
By Commerce 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: AUGUSTA, GA: Four people have been indicted in Richmond County on federal charges for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing firearms.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s proposed rollback of key parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA):

By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced approximately $6.3 million in federal funding for research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002193, University Training and Research for Fossil Energy Applications.

By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) applauded the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for proposing regulatory updates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Barrasso is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). EPW has jurisdiction over NEPA.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Local Area Economic Data Now Available for Select States and Industries.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A San Antonio man and his wife have been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.

By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, rebuked and warned against the newly released draft regulations proposed by the Trump Administration that would drastically weaken implementation of the bedrock National Environmental ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for leading a conspiracy involving numerous moving companies that systematically extorted hundreds of customers, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 58-year-old Belgian man who murdered both his parents in northern Virginia with a.22 caliber rifle in 1982 was removed to his home country Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: More than $124,000 was charged to the stolen credit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Raymond Trice, a multi-convicted felon, will spend the next 180 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentence, which was handed down today by Chief United States District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr.
By DOE 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. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) released the following statement 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 DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Workforce Leaders on the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), submitted a comment letter to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman John Ring in support of the Board’s proposed rule that would expand employee free choice on union elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of RICHARD ALONZO WOODS, 36, to 98 months in prison for illegally possessing two firearms and for violating the terms of his supervised release. WOODS, who pleaded guilty on May 9, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Wilhelmina ...

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today led a press conference with Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch (R-Idaho) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s proposed rollback of key parts of the landmark National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA):