News from August 2021

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
The US Interior Department published a two page rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Gazette | Aug 3, 2021
The US Energy Department published an eight page proposed rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a five page proposed rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 3, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Aug. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - The EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos (N3B) recently completed their 30th shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste for the fiscal year that began in October last year.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) continue to make progress on a waste treatment demonstration project with the installation of new ion-exchange columns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, IOWA - On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, a Burlington man was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 20 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida -- A Florida man has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for fraudulently seeking over $7,263,564 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today a settlement agreement with Florida’s Volusia County School District (VCS) to address the district’s systemic and discriminatory practices that punish students with disabilities for their disability-related behavior and deny them equal access to VCS’s programs and services.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation invites the public and media to participate in a virtual tour of our new interactive drought information web portal.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Assistant U.S. Attorneys will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 3rd at various event locations to celebrate the 37th Annual National Night Out.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after convening a meeting with Jen Easterly, the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis,...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - Last month, FEMA led classroom and field exercises for the territory’s points of distribution managers and U.S. Virgin Islands logistics staff. FEMA’s Logistics staff could be used to monitor distribution sites for future events.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE - Jeffery Durance, 38, of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and an inmate of the Tennessee Department of Correction, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to three years in prison for mailing a threatening communication and conveying false information while threatening to use a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, senior Committee Member and Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus Rep. Jackie Speier, and Rep. Mikie Sherrill, issued the following statement after the release of a gender equity review commissioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for its women’s and men’s basketball championship programs...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Indian national was arrested today in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $2.3 million from elderly victims by impersonating fraud prevention representatives from United States banks, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Philip M. Close, 43, of Rochester, NY, who pleaded guilty to a 74-count indictment, including 61 counts of production of child pornography and 13 counts of possession of material containing child pornography involving prepubescent minors, was sentenced to serve 50 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles A. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - David Jah was sentenced today to 216 months in prison for conspiracy to commit arson, in connection with a scheme to firebomb the properties of several people on his enemies list, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds; United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, ...