News from January 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: Department of Energy Releases Plastics Innovation Challenge Draft Roadmap and Request for Information
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $9.5 million to two congressionally authorized Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse projects. This WaterSMART Program funds the planning, design, and construction of water recycling and reuse projects in partnership with local government entities.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Mills County, Texas, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C- House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Sam Graves (R-MO), and Republican Leader of the House Committee on Natural Resources Bruce Westerman (R-AR) issued the following statements regarding President-elect Biden’s reported plan to revoke the Presidential permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Lol was convicted of attempted burglary in 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: SHILOH, Tennessee - If you haven’t visited Shiloh National Military Park in the last month, expect to come across a few new additions to the park. New signage has been erected along the driving tour route and more trees have been added to the historic orchards.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho - Recreation managers for the Bureau of Land Management’s Coeur d’Alene Field Office are assessing damage left by the intense windstorm that swept through northern Idaho on Jan. 13. Downed trees are littering recreation sites and causing impediments to trail use.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the State Department announced it would officially designate the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang as crimes against humanity and a genocide. The China Task Force, led by House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul, urged the State Department last year to evaluate the situation as a possible genocide. Below is a statement from Rep. McCaul.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to the International Code Council (ICC) today requesting information regarding the integrity of the International...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cesar Pena, 28, of Strathmore, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to three years and one month in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to the International Code Council (ICC) today requesting information regarding the integrity of the International...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant Posted Video Titled “KILL YOUR SENATORS" and Urged Violent Overthrow of Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today for being a felon in possession of a loaded semi-automatic pistol.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has successfully completed the hot commissioning testing phase of operations at the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF), having validated radiation shielding, environmental emissions, and product waste acceptance requirements while processing over 320,000 gallons of radioactive liquid waste from a tank farm at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: A 32-year-old Irving man has pleaded guilty to helping a capital murder suspect evade capture for more than 12 years, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million grant to the city of Canton, Illinois, to make critical water infrastructure improvements needed to support new and existing businesses throughout...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Deputy Secretary Mark W. Menezes and the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Deputy Secretary David Norquist signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) affirming the mutual interest in confirming and enhancing the longstanding partnership between DOE and DoD on space-related research and technology development in support of U.S. national space policy goals.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote to outgoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting that the agency rescind a batch of letters it sent to states earlier this month attempting to make it harder for the incoming Biden Administration to reverse illegal and harmful Medicaid changes championed by the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Somerset, Ky., man, Jimmy Siegfried Grider, 56, was sentenced to 206 months in federal prison on Tuesday, before U.S. District Court Judge Claria Horn Boom, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that a federal judge has accepted a guilty plea by Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate Richard Robert Gilbert for a murder-for-hire and retaliation plot against an Assistant United States Attorney and a confidential informant. The plea calls for Gilbert to serve 262 months, consecutive to the 130-month sentence for which he was already in federal prison.
