News from July 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by officials from the City of Wilmington, Delaware Nature Society, Delaware Wildlands and Delaware Parks at Father Tucker Park in Little Italy to highlight the Great American Outdoors Act, bipartisan legislation recently passed by the U.S. Senate that would fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently partnered with Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) to perform transfers of spent nuclear fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Louis Joseph Normand, Jr., 60, of Diamondhead, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to a Criminal Information charging him with bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations Subcommittee, released the following statement on news the Trump Administration plans to bar international students from the country if their school's classes are online...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced it has awarded $750,000 in Underrepresented Community Grants to support the identification and nomination of sites to the National Register of Historic Places. The Underrepresented Community grant program focuses on documenting the homes, lives...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Bicameral Democratic Health Committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar, Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin today expressing serious concerns with guidance recently issued by the Trump Administration allowing insurance plans and group...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission, Anniston, Alabama, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Rocky Samas, also known as “Twin," 48, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack and powder cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - Elk Creek Road (28-11-29.0), east of Myrtle Point, Oregon, will be closed for up to three months beginning July 7 as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) completes road repairs. The BLM will replace four culverts between milepost 0.4 and 2.8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills stockbroker has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for scheming to manipulate penny stock prices to inflate the reported profits of his co-conspirator’s hedge funds, generating millions of dollars in fees and commissions for himself, but causing investors to suffer more than $215 million in losses when the funds collapsed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man was convicted by a federal jury today of illegally possessing a firearm and methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on the latest announcements from the Departments...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: In response to the White House’s Tuesday announcement that President Trump had formally withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer issued the following statement in support of the action...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Two residents of Windber and Johnstown, Pa., were indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the need to extend supercharged unemployment benefits...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Defense funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation funds the Department of Defense, including operations and maintenance, readiness activities, research and development, equipment modernization, and health and quality-of-life programs for our troops and military families.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Pecos, NM: Beginning this week, Pecos National Historical Park staff along with an American Sign Language crew from the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps will begin work on 6,000 feet of fence line along the northern boundary of the park. Crews will be repairing and stabilizing sections of fence, freeing fenceline of vegetation, and replacing it with wildlife-friendly fence. Park property boundaries will also be clearly demarcated.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, Friant Water Authority and Madera-Chowchilla Water and Power Authority have scheduled contract-renewal negotiation sessions for the transfer of operation, maintenance and replacement activities related to the Friant-Kern Canal and the Madera Canal and associated facilities.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
