News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service is encouraging public comment on an environmental assessment that examines the proposed paving of a private property access route known as Meadow Road within Grand Teton National Park.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today applauded the Administration’s Executive Order targeted at reducing infrastructure project delays throughout the Executive Branch...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) today responded to President Trump’s Executive Order to waive critical environmental reviews due to the current...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing, “Infrastructure: The Road to Recovery." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Information Technology Professional Fraudulently Sought More than $8 Million in CARES Act SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for methamphetamine trafficking and illegally possessing firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzes how federal agencies use infectious disease modeling to help guide decisions to fight outbreaks and how these models can be improved. The report was requested by Energy and Commerce Committee leaders in 2017 after learning about challenges with infectious disease modeling during the Zika outbreak at a hearing.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzes how federal agencies use infectious disease modeling to help guide decisions to fight outbreaks and how these models can be improved. The report was requested by Energy and Commerce Committee leaders in 2017 after learning about challenges with infectious disease modeling during the Zika outbreak at a hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Deyanna Davis, 30, Semaj Pigram, 25, and Walter Stewart, 28, all of Buffalo, NY, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man has been arrested on charges that he participated in a riot in Atlantic City on May 31, 2020, following a day of otherwise peaceful protests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule that would warp the cost-benefit analysis for its regulations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), along with Representatives John P. Sarbanes (D-Md.), Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and other members of Congress, in sending a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging continued investment in the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington-Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Representative Joaquin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The grand jury has returned indictments against two men in separate, unrelated cases resulting from FBI Springfield Field Office undercover operations.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Atomic Legacy Cabin in Grand Junction, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The grand jury has returned indictments against two men in separate, unrelated cases resulting from FBI Springfield Field Office undercover operations.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed rule titled “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) urged Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) to hold a hearing on bridging the digital divide in a letter sent today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Garland, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A serial bank robber with three prior bank robbery convictions was sentenced today to federal prison after robbing three additional Pacific Northwest banks and making threats by mail.
