News from December 2021
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to launch a new (DECP). This prestigious program through the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) will support extraordinary faculty members as they embark on lifetimes of transformative research, education, and leadership aligned with the Office of Nuclear Energy mission.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - An oil-spill facility-response plan reviewed by the team at Hanford ’s Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER ) Federal Training Center proved critical to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Armed with that plan, the DOT responded to a southern California pipeline rupture that sent 3,000 barrels of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean in September.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), and Representative Anthony Brown (D-MD) expressed disappointment that the final National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA) does not give the D.C. mayor control over the D.C. National Guard and vowed to keep fighting to enact this important and necessary reform into law.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretary Mayorkas:. I am writing to express my concern with reported U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) Fiscal Year 2021 enforcement statistics and potential plans to restructure ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) personnel. As you know, there are over 8,500 ICE ERO professionals...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Mobile woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Kavon Mason Mailed Drugs to Jefferson County from Arizona and Other States.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter will travel December 7-17 to Qatar, India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In India, she will observe consular operations and meet with consular staff. The U.S. Mission in India is one of the largest consular operations in the world, supporting...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The former East Helena chief of police today admitted allegations that he distributed child pornography in 2019 using social media, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced that U.S. Chief District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Donatraus Hudson, a/k/a “Dontarius Hudson," age 22, of Baton Rouge to 120 months in federal prison following his conviction of possessing a firearm by a convicted felon. Hudson’s federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: Richard “Rob" Walker Attempted to Obstruct a Federal Grand Jury Investigation Into a Payment He Accepted from a Nassau County Contractor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on two charges of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
Release: MR BARKER: (In progress) at this somewhat busy time. So we need to start, I think, on the tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Presidents Biden and Putin have just finished a virtual call. You’ve talked in the past about your deep concerns about Russia’s renewed plans for aggression in Ukraine with obviously a lot of troops massed at the border.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of a neighborhood street gang that identifies as “300" operating in Hudson County, New Jersey, today admitted his role in a gang-related shooting, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM Senior Advisor William “Ike" White presented Pam Marks of the Savannah River Site (SRS) with the DOE’s Federal Project Director of the Year Award for 2020 during his visit to the site Dec. 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Two defendants have been charged in criminal complaints for their roles in unemployment insurance benefit fraud schemes, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A soldier from Fayetteville who engaged in a sham marriage with a United States citizen was sentenced today to time served in prison. On Oct. 20, 2021, Maryam Movsum Hasanova pled guilty to one count of visa fraud. She was also ordered to be promptly deported from the United States and to pay $41,511.06 in restitution to the United States Army.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A Mexican businessman was arrested yesterday in Houston and a Mexican businesswoman is in federal custody on criminal charges related to their alleged involvement in a fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tonight, Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed S. 610, the Protecting Medicare & American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott issued the following statement on today's biofuels announcements; the USDA’s roll out of $800 million for the biofuels industry and the EPA’s announcement of Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
