News from March 2020
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report stating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is refusing to share documents and information related to EPA’s enforcement program...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland, Ohio, returned a superseding indictment charging twenty defendants for their roles in an international drug distribution conspiracy, which includes the illegal sales of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: OAKLAND - Erick and Kimberly Dominguez pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with their scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA), announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and SSA Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Robb Stickley. The plea was received by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: “Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness." -John Muir, 1946. A Thousand Mile Walk to the Golf.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - RANDY LEW WILLIAMS, 57, of Edmond, Oklahoma, has been charged for illegally shipping firearms to the Middle East, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today ongoing congressionally mandated contract conversions pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Today’s release includes 13 draft repayment contract assignments from the Shasta, Trinity and Sacramento River Divisions for a 60-day public comment period. These are 13 of over 86 repayment contract conversions requested by federal Central Valley Project contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Two Defendants Charged in Eastern District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Tonya Danielle Ham, 36, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to transferring a firearm to a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Vice Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Environment, sent a letter to Nestlé Waters North America seeking documents and information related to the bottled water industry’s practices, specifically regarding the extraction, bottling, and selling of America’s groundwater for financial gain.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House passed the bipartisan Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act (S.1822 ) by unanimous consent, which will improve efforts to collect more accurate internet availability data, boost connectivity, and make sure our limited resources are used to deploy broadband in communities that need it most. It passed out of the Senate in December 2019 and is now one step closer to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Committee members Reps. Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and A. Donald McEachin (D-VA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives today passed S. 1822, by unanimous consent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELKIE CRUMP, also known as “40," 37, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that six (6) people have been sentenced for their roles in a Union County methamphetamine distribution ring. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearings in the El Dorado Division of the United States District Court.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $1.4 million to Pennsylvania from Section 7721 of the Plant Protection Act as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that two different Project Safe Childhood (PSC) defendants were sentenced to federal prison today for child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two southwest Missouri men have been charged in federal court for kidnapping a Webb City, Missouri, woman and threatening to kill her and her family unless she recanted her testimony in another criminal case.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration today announced that the TSA PreCheck™ program has reached a milestone of 10 million members. TSA PreCheck, which opened its first enrollment center in December 2013, has more than 400 enrollment centers nationwide. From March 2019 to February 2020, there was an 18% increase in new membership compared to the same period the year prior.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - Last week’s “Fugitive of the Week," Russell Shawn Martell, 38, was arrested this morning without incident by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Kittery, Maine.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, March 2, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating almost $70 million to support 386 projects under the Plant Protection Act’s Section 7721 (PPA 7721) program to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, threat mitigation, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $850,000 grant to Delgado Community College of New Orleans, Louisiana, to support the growth of Louisiana’s water transportation industry by building the new Delgado Maritime and Industrial...
