News from April 2021
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day’s end. That’s 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation’s employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today spoke on the Senate floor, urging his colleagues to support S.J.Res.14, the Congressional Review Act resolution to reverse the Trump EPA's Methane Rescission Rule.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Acres: Estimated 1,400 acres. Percent Containment: 0%. Start Date: April 25, 2021. Cause: Under Investigation. Origin Location: Hualapai Mountains; S of Pine Lake, Arizona. Fuels: Ponderosa pine at higher elevations, brush, and grass. Personnel Assigned: 263. Precipitation aids Flag Fire suppression efforts...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held a hearing titled: “Hearing on the Fiscal Year 2022 Proposed Budget for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Below is the opening statement of Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Christopher William Bounds, 38, of Lind, Washington, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 322 months in federal prison, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Bounds to serve ten years of supervised release...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in today’s Health subcommittee hearing on long-haul coronavirus patients and related research.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on President Biden’s American Family Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Amaleka McCall-Brathwaite, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Eastern Region Office of the Inspector...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on long-haul coronavirus patients and related research.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Defendant conspired with Chinese military university on the Department of Commerce’s Entity List.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - On April 27, 2021, the Jackson Police Department conducted a sex offender compliance operation, Operation Spring Sweep, which was supported operationally and tactically by the United States Marshals Service.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement tonight on President Biden's first Joint Address to Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: A Rogers County woman pleaded guilty today in federal court for producing child pornography involving her young child, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: DENVER - A Colorado man was sentenced to 10.5 years in federal prison following his prior guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Brady on Fox: Democrats’ Fight for Wealthy Tax Cuts is ‘Incredibly Tone Deaf’.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on President Biden’s proposal to guarantee two years of free community college as part of the American Families Plan. Yesterday, Senator...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Defendant Threatened to “Slaughter" Senators and Representatives Two Days After the January 6, 2021 Storming of the U.S. Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement this morning arrested 19 defendants, most of whom are members and associates of the Bounty Hunter Bloods (BHB) street gang named in a series of federal grand jury indictments charging them with manufacturing and distributing crack cocaine in and around their “territory" of the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in the Watts neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on President Biden’s American Families Plan...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Senate voted to use the Congressional Review Act to restore the popular, common sense methane emissions standards established under the Obama Administration...
