News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Wire Fraud and Money Laundering was sentenced on July 6, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued the following statement on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, wrote a letter to President Trump criticizing his anti-science rhetoric, which...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: What: Northwest Youth Corps LGBTQ Rainbow Conservation Crew completes service-work at Mount Rainier National Park during Pride Month and beyond.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on the announced cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and the court decision to stall the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, 29 U.S. Senators led by Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Ranking Member Tom Carper and 118 members of the U.S. House of Representatives led by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. filed an amicus brief in the case of Union of Concerned Scientists, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Projects Span Colliders, Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: 590 Artifacts Recovered by Law Enforcement.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Lashmeet man was sentenced to federal prison for a sex crime against a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Kevin Laxton, 29, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for travel in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor. Following his release from prison, Laxton will be required to serve 15 years of supervised release and will have to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for July 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs today approved by voice vote it fiscal year 2021 bill. In total, the bill provides $65.87 billion in funding, an increase of $8.467 billion above the FY 2020 enacted level and $21.158 billion above the request.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: On July 1, 2020, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) announced a 6.7-mile extension of the existing precautionary fish consumption advisory due to mercury on the Emory River in Morgan County. Additionally, a new precautionary advisory due to mercury in smallmouth bass is being...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 14, at 12 p.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn today announced that Kristin Martin, age 39, of Littleton, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for mail fraud and tax evasion related to selling fraudulently obtained items on eBay. Martin was also ordered to pay $872,337.68 in restitution for the fraud to her former employer and $161,864 to the IRS for the tax evasion.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, July 14, at 12 p.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Department...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced the issuance of a final long-term order authorizing the export of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the proposed Jordan Cove LNG Terminal (Jordan Cove) in Coos Bay, Oregon. In 2014, the Department of Energy ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Today, 118 members of the U.S. House of Representatives led by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., and 29 U.S. Senators led by Senate Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Tom Carper, filed an amicus brief in the case of Union of Concerned Scientists, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 2, 2020, TREMAINE DOWDELL, 27, of Norwich, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish to a federal firearm offense stemming from an assault and shooting in New London last year.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, wrote a letter to President Trump criticizing his anti-science rhetoric, which...
