News from July 2020
By DOE 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 Commerce 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
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 Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation includes funding for programs within the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and other related agencies, including the Social Security Administration.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette issued the following statement on the Dakota Access Pipeline...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office greeted its new manager during an outdoor swearing-in ceremony under sunny, blue skies June 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Jo Shirley, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has admitted to unlawfully retaining a document containing national defense information and committing international parental kidnapping, Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney William J. Powell for the Northern District of West Virginia announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - A Polk County, Iowa, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers when they spotted a 9 mm caliber handgun loaded with 14 bullets in his carry-on bag at Des Moines International Airport on Thursday, July 2.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho - The National Park Service (NPS) will release a revised General Management Plan (GMP) and Environmental Assessment (EA) for City of Rocks National Reserve on July 6, 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2021 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation funds the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Interior programs, the Department of Energy, and other related agencies.
By EPA 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 Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - An American Airlines mechanic at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) was arraigned Monday for allegedly importing more than twenty-five pounds of cocaine that was recovered from an external compartment of a jetliner. Paul Belloisi, 52, was arrested Feb. 5 following an investigation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Today - as part of their combined efforts with the Republican members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis - members of the Pennsylvania Republican Congressional Delegation, including Congressman GT Thompson, Congressman Mike Kelly, Congressman Scott Perry, Congressman Lloyd Smucker, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: West Virginia Woman Admits to Willful Retention of Top Secret National Defense Information and International Parental Kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Four former supervisory correctional officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana - Daniel Davis (43), Scotty Kennedy (52), John Sanders (34), and James Savoy, Jr. (42) - were sentenced on July 2, for their roles in assaulting an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: Also Sentenced To Mandatory Sex Offender Registration And Treatment And Restriction From Living With Or Being Around Children Under 18.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The BLM Miles City Field Office is accepting public comments on a preliminary environmental assessment which describes options for grazing on the Pumpkin Creek Allotment, located about 15 miles south of Miles City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. - On Thursday July 2, 2020, Robert J. Bell, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Chicago Division and Tricia Smith, State’s Attorney for Boone County, Illinois, announced that Efren Rodriguez-Diaz (Wheaton, Illinois) pled guilty to Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced a Turlock man today to two years and three months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for purposefully striking a Stanislaus County Sheriff’s helicopter with the beam of a powerful laser, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
Release: Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
