News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Today an Information was filed in federal court charging former elected Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith with obstruction of justice for attempting to get a friend and two of his assistant prosecutors to make false statements to federal law enforcement officers and a federal grand jury in a federal criminal investigation of Smith’s own criminal conduct, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.- A young male mountain lion with physical abnormalities - a kinked tail where the end is shaped like the letter “L" and only one descended testicle -- has been discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains, biologists with the National Park Service (NPS) say.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Committee advanced three communications and technology bills to the full House of Representatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the Energy and Commerce Committee advanced 38 bills to the House floor for consideration. This builds upon the bipartisan progress the committee made in July when 30 bipartisan bills were reported to the full House for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced today that a total of 302 arrests have been made by local and federal law enforcement officers so far as part of Operation LeGend.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the Energy and Commerce Committee advanced 38 bills to the House floor for consideration. This builds upon the bipartisan progress the committee made in July when 30 bipartisan bills were reported to the full House for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Today an Information was filed in federal court charging former elected Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith with obstruction of justice for attempting to get a friend and two of his assistant prosecutors to make false statements to federal law enforcement officers and a federal grand jury in a federal criminal investigation of Smith’s own criminal conduct, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Middletown, N.J. - Gateway National Recreation Area is proposing to increase parking fees in the park. These parking rates would go into effect for the summer of 2021. This would be Gateway’s first parking fee increase since 2012.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Committee advanced three communications and technology bills to the full House of Representatives...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding a new report on the impact of the climate crisis on the financial sector. The report is the result of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, which was established by CFTC Commissioner Rostin Behnam to identify climate-related financial risks.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming - The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation is preparing for contract construction work at Alcova Dam following the 2020 irrigation season. To accommodate the construction work, the reservoir will be temporarily lowered an additional 29 feet below the normal winter operating elevation of 5,488 feet, down to an elevation of 5,459 feet, which is below the level of the spillway crest.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. (EDT) on the need for an ambitious...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - PHILIP JAMES HEATH, 52, of Lawton, has been sentenced to serve 96 months in federal prison for possession of illegal explosives and possession of multiple firearms after having been previously convicted of a felony, announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Duluth City, Georgia, man was sentenced today to 61 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to hijack the credit card accounts of multiple victims in order to fraudulently purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars in gift cards and high-end products, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a 32-year-old man who resided in Austin for assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Central Oregon - Forest officials for the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and Crooked River National Grassland and the Prineville District Bureau of Land Management will implement a complete ban on all campfires and propane fire pits on all federally managed public lands and raise the Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL) to IV effective Friday, September 11 at 12:01 a.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Casa Grande, participated in a week long targeted operation related to child sexual exploitation netting multiple arrests.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Committee advanced seven consumer protection bills to the full House of Representatives...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: WILTON/RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Weir Farm National Historic Site (NHS) is increasing access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup of 38 bills.
