News from January 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: LEWISTOWN, Mont. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared an environmental assessment for the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument’s proposed acquisition of a 317-acre parcel in Chouteau County currently owned by The Conservation Fund. The parcel would connect two inaccessible parcels of public land, providing access from the Missouri River.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after meeting today with Brenda Mallory, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to lead the White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ). Senator Carper's statement on the announcement of Mallory's nomination can be found here.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President-elect Biden’s speech tonight outlining his plan to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark L. Flint, II, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -A retired Pennsylvania firefighter was charged yesterday and arrested today in Pennsylvania in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Phillip Michael Sites, of Maysville, West Virginia, appeared in federal court today to face a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General Mike Hunter has filed first degree murder and drug distribution charges on an alleged drug dealer and is continuing an investigation into the supply chain.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2020 Census redistricting (P.L. 94-171 ) geographic support products will be available for all states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on a flow basis starting Jan. 19 and ending no later than Feb. 28.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Tonight, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement applauding President-elect Biden’s vision for the next COVID-19 relief package...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Hemp and marijuana both come from the Cannabis plant. But legally, they are very different. If cannabis has less than 0.3% THC - for tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical that produces a high - it is considered hemp and legal throughout the United States. Otherwise, it’s marijuana and currently treated as a controlled substance by the federal government and many states.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President-elect Biden’s speech tonight outlining his plan to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2021
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that CHRISTOPHER ALAMO, 33, of Hartford, was arrested yesterday on federal narcotics distribution and firearm possession charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Erick Lamont Stanback Singleton, of Cleveland, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: “I commend and agree with the federal appellate court’s decision finding that facilities opened with the purpose of having visitors use heroin and fentanyl are doing so in violation of federal law. And as I have said previously, the idea of a government sponsored drug house is an anathema to the principle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: Texas Woman Indicted for Transporting Minor for Female Genital Mutilation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Reiko Elio Penunuri, 42, of Arizona, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for use of facilities in interstate commerce in aid of racketeering. A cellular phone is a “facility" as used in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Reiko Elio Penunuri, 42, of Arizona, was sentenced January 13 in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for use of facilities in interstate commerce in aid of racketeering. A cellular phone is a “facility" ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: On Jan. 12, Acting Secretary Gaynor issued the following memorandum to all DHS Components expanding the period of the 59th Presidential Inauguration National Special Security Event to begin on Jan. 13, 2021: "The 59th Presidential Inauguration was designated as a National Special Security Event (NSSE), pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive-22. The period of the 59th Presidential Inauguration as an NSSE currently lasts from January 19 - Jan. 21, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: On Jan. 11, then-Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf approved the Department’s first-ever Strategic Approach for Arctic Homeland Security, a landmark document that positions DHS to more effectively tackle emerging risks in the region as geopolitical interest and competition grows.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2021
News Release: On Jan. 11, the DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans released a first-of-its-kind 2020 Economic Security Assessment. This innovative annual product identifies five key trends that shaped the global economic landscape in 2020, and identifies nine “critical domains” as essential to the ongoing operation and growth of the U.S. economy.
