News from May 2020
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: TONOPAH, NV - The Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Field Office, has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed Crow Springs Project Mine Plan of Operations, located approximately 24 miles northwest of Tonopah in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: HEYBURN, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation will host an informational meeting to present streamflow forecasts and projected reservoir operations for Jackson Lake Dam and other Snake River reservoirs on May 21. The meeting will be held at the Teton County Public Library, 125 Virginian Lane, Jackson, Wyo., at 5:30 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau, in close coordination with the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico, will resume dropping off 2020 Census invitation packets at homes beginning May 22. Census Bureau employees will follow all lockdown and curfew measures outlined by Puerto Rico Executive Order 2020-038.
By EPA 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 DOE Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: The environmental liability of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) was estimated at $7.35 billion in fiscal year 2019 and is expected to grow as the office acquires dozens more sites in the coming decades.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Inocente Rivera, 20, of Ascensión, Chihuahua, Mexico appeared in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico on May 15 for an initial appearance on a criminal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute 164.4 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores of the Northern District of Oklahoma today announced that the Broken Arrow Police Department received $40,210 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who was driving while in possession of a 9mm Beretta handgun under his seat was sentenced today to five years in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 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), and Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Kristine Svinicki calling on the agency to accelerate completion of a rulemaking to establish a technology-inclusive regulatory framework for advanced nuclear reactor technologies.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a bipartisan 208 to 199 vote, The Heroes Act, a bold and comprehensive coronavirus response bill that will meet the challenge this pandemic poses to our nation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jacob Blanco, 28, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, as well as one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: In El Paso today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against 25-year-old Vanessa Tarrango for communicating a threat online, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Luis M. Quesada, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, returned a single-count indictment against MUHAMMAD MASOOD, 28, charging him with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. MASOOD, who was initially charged in a criminal complaint on March 19, 2020, is currently in custody in the Sherburne County Jail pending further court proceedings.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives approved H. Res. 965, which allows Congress to temporarily conduct virtual committee proceedings and implement remote voting on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic...
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) react to the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act introduced by House and Senate Democrats.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated six Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Brazoria, Fort Bend, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Matagorda, and Willacy 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: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today calculated the federal government so far has put tens of billions of dollars in the pipeline to help Iowans respond to the public health crisis and alleviate economic fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE - Paula Orozco was arrested and charged with mail theft, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Postal Inspector in Charge Rafael E. Nuñez, United States Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Peter N. Allen, age 32, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, appeared today on a criminal complaint charging him with attempted enticement and coercion of a minor into a sexual act, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
