News from July 2020
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: Overview. According to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, approximately 1,800 Jews lived in Norway when Nazi Germany occupied the country in 1940. Under the Nazi occupation, 759 were deported, nearly all to Auschwitz. Only 25 survived. Another 23 Jews died in Norway as a result of Nazi policies, bringing ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Heath Subcommittee hearing on “Improving Access to Care: Legislation to Reauthorize Key Public Health Programs:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Eight Pittsburgh-area residents have been charged in six separate indictments for criminal activity perpetuated during a civil disorder in the City of Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The alleged criminal acts occurred while Pittsburgh Police officers were...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas David Clay Fowlkes, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced today that Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Arkansas on forty-two counts of wire fraud and two counts of passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 24, 2020, Chyvonne Traver, age 28, and Kayla Clark, age 29, both of Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, were sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for fentanyl trafficking...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $7 million grant to Powder River County, Montana, to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to increase economic resilience in the face of natural disasters. The EDA grant, to be matched with $1 million in local investment, is expected to retain 48 jobs and spur nearly $7 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson, 39, has been federally charged with theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the unsealing of the criminal complaint today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Lamar Alexander...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kenneth Roy Nester, age 26, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C), punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, a fine up to $1,000,000.00, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public review of a Determination of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Adequacy (DNA) for 11 parcels of public land nominated for lease in the Oct. 20, 2020 Competitive Online Geothermal Lease Sale. These parcels have the potential...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: MIDLAND, TX – Today, President Donald J. Trump announced during his speech in Midland, TX that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is issuing a final policy statement that allows for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to non-free trade agreement (non-FTA) countries to be extended through the year 2050. This policy is a change from the current practice of granting 20-year export terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Bolstering Our Pre-existing Partnerships with the City of Detroit, the Detroit Police Department, and Wayne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Convicted in 2017 of possession of stolen property, tax fraud, and making false declarations in a court proceeding for crimes committed while serving as state legislator.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: For the sixth consecutive year, the Green Electronics Council (GEC) awarded its Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Purchaser Award to the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM). LM was awarded the rating of four stars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Gardena 13 gang was sentenced Monday to 123 months in prison for firearm- and drug-related charges after two separate attempts to flee from law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Busby man who admitted striking a woman with a baseball bat and his fists last year on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that five projects will receive up to $28 million to promote the advancement of the next generation of geothermal energy technologies. Selected by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Abner Peralta, 31, and Luis Colon, 35, both of Utica, New York, were sentenced today in federal court in Utica after previously being found guilty after trial of drug trafficking charges. Peralta was sentenced to serve 60 months in federal prison, followed by a 4-year term of supervised...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Heath Subcommittee hearing on “Improving Access to Care: Legislation to Reauthorize Key Public Health Programs:"
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2020
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - Chris Heppe grew up playing in the streams and forests of the Sierra Nevada foothills in Nevada City. It is his love of water, wildlife and their habitat that lead him on a lifelong career in federal service to remote corners of the world. But Heppe’s path has now brought him back home as the new Bureau of Land Management Central California District Manager based in El Dorado Hills.
