News from March 2020
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge’s EM program and two of its contractors, UCOR and Isotek, recently supported a local middle school’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) night, which attracted 700 students and their families.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers recently sent a robotic crawler on an advance scouting mission to ensure the safety of crews preparing an aging structure near the Hanford Sit e’s K West Reactor for demolition.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement today urging water utility companies across the country to avoid shutting off water service in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 123,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, March 12, at 9 a.m. in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man pleaded guilty today to supplying approximately 70 kilograms of cocaine to over 30 customers and for selling firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Offers Reward of up to $10,000 in Laverda Sorrell Disappearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - U.S. Attorney David J. Freed joined Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, in announcing that the Western Union Remission Fund began its first distribution of approximately $153 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government from...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement today urging water utility companies across the country to avoid shutting off water service in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: Following a three-day jury trial, Maurice Diggins, of Biddeford, Maine, was convicted today of conspiring to commit hate crimes and of actually committing hate crimes by engaging in a series of racially motivated attacks against black men in Maine, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank of the District of Maine.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn, M.D. asking a series of questions and requesting a briefing on the potential impact the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) could have on the supply of safe drugs and other medical products in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2020
News Release: Fredericksburg, VA: Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park will once again combine health and history with a series of “Fit-History" hikes this spring. These Ranger-led hikes are designed to cover a lot of ground-through woods and fields both beautiful and historic. The hikes seek a pace...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nestor Cordero-Hernandez, age 43, of Fort Ann, New York, pled guilty on Friday to conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and more than 50 grams of methamphetamine. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 9, 2020 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced today that the fifth meeting of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, originally scheduled to be held in Washington, DC, later this ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: A Hoover, Alabama, salesman and tax defier pleaded guilty Friday to tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town for the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced its intention to hold accountable anyone who violates the antitrust laws of the United States in connection with the manufacturing, distribution, or sale of public health products such as face masks, respirators, and diagnostics. The department’s announcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice prevailed in a first-of-a-kind arbitration, which will resolve a civil antitrust lawsuit challenging Novelis’s proposed merger with Aleris Corporation. As a result, Novelis must divest Aleris’s entire aluminum auto body sheet operations in North America, which will fully preserve ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Two commercial flooring executives, Robert A. Patrey Jr. and Kenneth R. Smith, pleaded guilty for their role in an antitrust conspiracy to rig bids and fix prices for commercial flooring services and products sold in the United States, the Department of Justice announced. The defendants are cooperating with the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: A federal jury in Detroit, Michigan, found a Colombian man guilty of all charges in a nine-count indictment charging him with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) conspiracy and other violent crimes, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Steven M. D’Antuono of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 9, 2020
News Release: Federal financial institution regulators and state regulators today encouraged financial institutions to meet the financial needs of customers and members affected by the coronavirus. The agencies recognize the potential impact of the coronavirus on the customers, members, and operations of many financial institutions and will provide appropriate regulatory assistance to affected institutions subject to their supervision.
