News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A vessel operating company was sentenced today in Hagatna, Guam, for illegally discharging oil into Apra Harbor, Guam, and for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharges of oily bilge water from the vessel Kota Harum.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee and the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a fully remote joint hearing on Thursday, March 25, on misinformation and disinformation plaguing online platforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Michigan man has admitted producing child pornography while previously residing in Savannah.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- Here’s what experts and top voices in broadband deployment are saying about the Boosting Broadband Connectivity Agenda that House Republicans on Energy and Commerce released this week.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, it is my pleasure to congratulate the people of The Gambia on the 56th anniversary of your independence.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that George Jones, age 40, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 17, 2021, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Contract proposals for Western Alaska Village-based Type 2 wildland firefighting hand crews will be sought for the 2021 fire season by about March 26, 2021, according to a pre-solicitation notice published last week by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, "A Smarter Investment: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 17, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Edsel Samuel Torres-Cancel and Yomisheika Marie Morales-Rivera with illegally trafficking in firearms and receiving guns from out of state, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Sterling Marshall pled guilty and was sentenced to 20 months in prison for conspiring to launder drug-trafficking proceeds between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “A Smarter Investment: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Douglas V. Oakes (62, Lake County) to 30 months in federal prison for tax evasion, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Oakes had pleaded guilty on Nov. 18, 2020.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “A Smarter Investment: Pathways to a Clean Energy Future."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Omar Santiago-Muniz, age 30, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 17, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 127 months’ imprisonment for production of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Cohasset, Minnesota, to build a 25,000-square-foot facility to house manufacturing tenants and a business incubator. This EDA grant, to be matched with $847,000 in local investment, is expected to create or retain nearly 100 jobs and generate $900,000 in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: In Separate Case, Second Boone Man Pleads Guilty to Production of Child Pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- Here’s what experts and top voices in broadband deployment are saying about the Boosting Broadband Connectivity Agenda that House Republicans on Energy and Commerce released this week.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C- Today, House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Subcommittee Leader on Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Republican Subcommittee Leader on Health Brett Guthrie (R-KY) sent this letter to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: The headwaters of the Dolores River are located in a meadow called Tin Can Basin, high in the rugged San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado. Originally named Rio de Nuestra Senora de las Dolores, or River of Our Lady of Sorrows, by Spanish explorers, the Dolores flows 230 miles before joining the Colorado River in the red rock canyon country near Moab, Utah.
