News from May 2020
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Thursday issued a Fire Prevention Order prohibiting campfires, explosives and fireworks on federal lands in a fire-prone area of black spruce off of Gilmore Trail north of Fairbanks and north of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facility site on the Steese Highway.
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the partisan proxy-voting proposal put forth by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Republic, Mo. - Katie A. Kull, a recent intern with the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network, will publish original research in a national scientific journal, the American Midland Naturalist. Her peer-reviewed article about royal catchfly will appear in the journal’s July 2020 edition. Kull also presented her research at the 2020 Missouri Natural Resources Conference.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) spoke on the House floor opposing the partisan 1,815-page COVID-19 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - Another member of the Atlanta-to-Dayton drug trafficking organization known as.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), today released the following statement after Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili announced the pardon and release of two opposition leaders:
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed the partisan Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act, a bill Walden says “fails" the American people.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 17 South Dakota counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Aurora, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Hanson, Hutchison, Lincoln, Miner, Turner, Union, and Yankton counties who suffered...
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 6800, the Heroes Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two top officers of a north suburban subprime auto lending company have been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating at least $5.3 million in company funds.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, welcomed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) launch of an Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) within its Office of Nuclear Energy. The ARDP will partner with private industry to help demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors in the United States.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated four Florida counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, and Wakulla counties who suffered losses due to a recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Fort Lauderdale, Florida - A federal judge today sentenced Frank Richard Beyer (a/k/a “Rick Beyer"), 75, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to 97 months in prison for possessing child pornography that included images of boys under age 12 engaged in sex acts and exposing their genitals. Prior to living in Florida, Beyer lived in New York, where he taught sixth grade and was an elementary school principal.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, May 15, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Louisiana and Indiana have been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), signed by President Trump, which provides assistance to families of children eligible for free or reduced-price meals dealing with school closures.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Laurel County man, Timmy L. Fields, 58, was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison on Friday, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, after previously being convicted of possession with intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), issued the following statement after House Democrats passed H. Res. 965, a proxy voting scheme that will jeopardize the deliberative process of the House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - Two top officers of a north suburban subprime auto lending company have been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating at least $5.3 million in company funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 12, 2020, his office filed a one-count federal criminal complaint against a man allegedly involved in domestic violence against a woman on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The complaint named Justin M. Moore (age: 34) of Keshena.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C., May 15, 2020 - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched an online portal to begin accepting applications for Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) grants. USDA plans to make available up to $100 million in competitive grants for activities designed to expand the sale and availability of ethanol and biodiesel fuels.
