News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Keith Saunders, 39, pled guilty to distribution of a quantity of methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a joint Energy and Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at a joint Environment & Climate Change and Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A tribe member today was arraigned in federal court before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Carla Baldwin for the murder of an individual on tribal land, announced Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Joseph Zanco, a former Massapequa High School teacher, was sentenced today at the federal courthouse in Central Islip to five years’ imprisonment by United States Circuit Court Judge Joseph F. Bianco for transporting child pornography in interstate and foreign commerce. As part of his sentence, Zanco...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is urging Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Paul Ray to overhaul or completely abandon the Trump Administration's ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at a joint Environment & Climate Change and Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Jan. 27, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Seventy-five years ago, a Hanford worker supporting the site’s plutonium enrichment effort was apparently reading the latest from the European Theater of World War II and left a Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper behind. Recently, workers with EM Richland Operations Office contractor...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
Release: APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) has posted Weed Risk Assessments (WRA) for the following 12 weed species:The purpose of a WRA is to evaluate the likelihood that a weed species will escape, naturalize, and spread in the United States, and harm U.S. natural and agricultural resources. PPQ ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) today outlined principles that Republican Members will focus on during this year’s planned Committee development of a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - PHILLIP CREIGHTON MONTGOMERY, 27, of Moore, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing firearms illegally, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man and woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, Possession of a Firearm by a Person Convicted of a Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence, and Transfer of a Firearm to a Prohibited Person.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM’s legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), or about 84 percent of the fee available during the performance evaluation period of fiscal 2019, according to a recently released scorecard.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Promote the Health and Safety of Racehorses:"
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today released legislative text of the draft Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act - an ambitious new climate plan to ensure the United States achieves net-zero greenhouse gas pollution no later than 2050.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man today admitted mailing thousands of fraudulent invoices to hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices throughout the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Promote the Health and Safety of Racehorses:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Former Illinois State Sen. MARTIN A. SANDOVAL pleaded guilty today in federal court in Chicago to bribery and tax offenses included in an information filed in federal court Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - An Albany, Kentucky, pharmacist has pleaded guilty to three counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances, announced the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky.
