News from May 2020
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million in funding for research and development that focuses on field validation and demonstration, as well as next-generation extraction, separation, and processing technologies for critical materials.
By EPA Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: New Haven - John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that CEDRIC GOODWIN, also known as “Ceddyo," 31, of West Haven, was arrested today and charged by federal criminal complaint with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: The Census Bureau today released the first results from its Small Business Pulse Survey. The results represent data collected between April 26 and May 2, 2020 and are available at .
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and member of the Finance Committee Energy Task Force, and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that KALEY WILLIAMS, age 29, of Daytona Beach, Florida and MICHELLE JACKSON, age 51, of Pompano Beach, Florida were sentenced this week on bank fraud charges. Williams, age...
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to purchase up to one million barrels of sweet crude oil to test the oil market. The oil is for delivery to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) during July with early deliveries accepted in June.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: BOISE - Francisco Martinez Campos, 57, of Caldwell, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 90 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute near a school, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Campos serve eight years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Campos pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 18, 2019.
By EPA Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a teleconference forum on Tuesday, May 19, at 12 pm (EDT) with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to discuss critical consumer protection, broadband and spectrum issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: According to documents in this case, on Dec. 24, 2019, Malutan, armed with a dangerous weapon, allegedly forced his way into a bank located on Lower Huntington Road. Once inside, he demanded to be taken to the vault where he had employees fill a bag with money. Once the bag was filled with cash, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Elliott Atwell, a Charlottesville man who allegedly sent male enhancement pills to a 16-year-old living in New Jersey, was arrested this morning at his home in Charlottesville on a federal criminal complaint and charged with dispensing prescription drugs without a valid prescription.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statements after the Senate unanimously approved an amended version of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (S.3744).
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JASON BOYET, age 41, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was charged on May 13, 2020 in a one-count Bill of Information with distribution of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young as three (3) years old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(2).
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response."
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: ORLANDO - The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Orlando office recently honored fallen HSI Task Force Agent (TFA) Miguel Martínez-Ortiz during Running 4 Heroes. Martínez-Ortiz, a member of the Puerto Rico Police Department was a TFA for HSI San Juan and a 28-year veteran of law enforcement. He passed away on April 24, 2020, after contracting COVID-19 while on duty.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million in funding for research and development that focuses on field validation and demonstration, as well as next-generation extraction, separation, and processing technologies for critical materials.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Daniel Logan Mock, 34, of Albuquerque, New Mexico pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque on May 13 to two counts of transmission of threatening communications in interstate commerce.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response."
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2020
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today said he’s pleased the Heroes Act, the newly unveiled House Democratic plan to improve public health and support the American people through the coronavirus pandemic, includes $24 billion in funding for tribal governments and tribal organizations. Grijalva is an original cosponsor of the measure and has committed to voting for it later this week.
