News from April 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris requesting information on the current situation at the southern border, including information about the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) operations...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) opened today’s hearing on the role of fossil fuel subsidies by acknowledging the progress the United States has made on climate change and how the country under President Trump became a global leader in the pursuit to reduce carbon emissions and grow the economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today blasted House passage of H.R. 51, which would grant the District of Columbia statehood without a constitutional amendment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 63 months’ imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release on his conviction of narcotics trafficking and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
Release: At the Leaders Summit on Climate, the United States and India launched a new high-level partnership, the “U.S.-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership," which envisages bilateral cooperation on strong actions in the current decade to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Partnership...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in support of President Biden’s new commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla -- FEMA has approved $7,184,574 to reimburse Bay District Schools for emergency protective measures resulting from Hurricane Michael.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans, led by Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris requesting information on the current situation at the southern border, including information about the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) operations...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
Release: Washington, D.C., April 21, 2021 -- The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinereus) at an aquarium in Georgia. These are the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her to return Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters to Washington, D.C., from Grand Junction, Colo., where former BLM Director William Perry Pendley moved it during the Trump administration as part of a largely successful effort to undermine staff morale and force career experts to leave the agency.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the business meeting to consider S. 1251, Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, applauded the bipartisan efforts that led to the Committee passage of the Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2021 (S.1251).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Amaleka McCall-Brathwaite, Eastern Region Special Agent-in-Charge of the Office of...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today convened a full committee hearing to consider the nominations of Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds and Ronald Stroman to serve on the United States Postal Service Board of Governors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Theodore Edward Coontz, of Belington, West Virginia, has admitted to a methamphetamine charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA) today reintroduced H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Parampreet Singh, 55, of Davis; Ranvir Singh, 38, of Sacramento; and Amandeep Multani, 33, of Roseville, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute at least 5 kilograms of cocaine, at least 1 kilogram of a mixture containing heroin, opium, and ketamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Havre man accused of supplying large quantities of methamphetamine to individuals on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation pleaded guilty to a trafficking crime today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: STATESBORO, GA - Two Vidalia, Ga., men who played key roles in an expansive, gang-related drug trafficking ring in middle Georgia each have been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 22, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in support of President Biden’s new commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement...
