News from March 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement in support of the state of Wyoming's amicus brief which was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The amicus brief supports ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Trump Administration's finalization of its roll back of the Obama-era vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards that have ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4.4 million grant to Northeastern Technical College of Cheraw, South Carolina, to establish a new workforce training center. The EDA grant, to be matched with more than $1.1 million in local investment, is expected to create more than 300 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Rhahemiah Niashee McNair, 37, of Anchorage, has been charged with credit union robbery, in connection with the March 28, 2020, robbery of Denali A Division of Nuvision Federal Credit Union branch located at 1118 Muldoon Road in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Conspiracy Involved Northwest Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released a statement after the release...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: TULSA, Okla. TULSA, Okla. - U.S. Attorney Trent Shores today announced that grants from the Department of Justice, worth more than $83 million, are available to help communities improve school security and protect students, teachers and faculty from threats of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Tacoma - A 25- year-old Puyallup resident who has long associations with a Lakewood, Washington street gang, made his initial appearance March 30, 2020 in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms. DESHAWN WEST was ordered detained at the Federal Detention Center at Sea-Tac. WEST had been in state custody since his arrest on Feb. 14, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Vice Chair Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) sent a letter today with eight House Democratic colleagues to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt urging him to close Grand Canyon National Park and other national parks and public lands at risk of spreading coronavirus...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - U.S. Attorney Aaron L. Weisman today announced that more than $163 million in Department of Justice grants is available to help communities address America’s addiction crisis.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released a statement after the release...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), issued the following statement on the Trump administration's final rule from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that directs automakers to improve fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent per year through model year 2026.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On March 16, Jarett James, 34, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to life imprisonment after being convicted of sexually abusing two girls between the ages of 10 and 12. The crimes took place on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation in 2011 and 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The National Park Service Contracting and Procurement Office has awarded the labor services contract for the 2020 Visitor Transportation Service in Glacier National Park to LC Staffing of Kalispell, MT. The contract, valid for up to two years, provides drivers, dispatchers, and supervisors for the park’s 35-bus fleet that provides shuttle service along the Going-to-the-Sun Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two women pleaded guilty yesterday for their respective roles in helping run a “pill mill," which led to the fraudulent dispensing of thousands of prescription opioid pills.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released a statement after the release...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has established a consultation board to assist the agency with implementation of the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program. This new program was created by the 2018 Farm Bill to fund projects that will help prevent animal pests and diseases from entering the United States and reduce the spread and impact of potential disease incursions.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 30, 2020 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand today announced that USDA has extended the deadline for ReConnect Pilot Program applications to April 15.
