News from January 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: PAICINES, CA- Annual measures to protect nesting raptors of Pinnacles National Park will be reinstated as of Jan. 19, 2021, according to Park Superintendent Blanca Alvarez Stransky. Last year, seven pairs of Prairie and Peregrine Falcons produced a total of 22 fledglings. Additionally, the park had...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: BROWNING, MT – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary Mark W. Menezes announced the reduction of cost share obligations for financial assistance awards for Tribes and tribal communities struggling from the financial impacts of COVID-19. The Deputy Secretary made determinations on ...
By DOE 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 Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The BLM has opened a 15-day public scoping period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located in Montana and North Dakota. The scoping period runs through February 4, 2021 and is intended to solicit public input on proposed lease parcels for the June 29, 2021 lease sale, including the preliminary recommendations and stipulations.
By Commerce 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: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the selection of Ilan Graff as Deputy U.S. Attorney and Russell Capone as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Attorney. Graff and Capone assumed their new roles on Jan. 16, 2021, when the Court’s appointment of Ms. Strauss as U.S. Attorney took effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Tampa - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced today that the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) collected $276,324,126.35 in criminal and civil actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2020 (FY 2020). Of this amount, $99,349,069.35 represents collections from locally handled criminal and civil actions, including $65,223,665.55 in civil actions and $34,125,403.80 in criminal actions.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is awarding a total of $1.2 million to eight projects through the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Pitch-to-Pilot. The selected projects show the potential to increase water supplies by reducing cost, energy consumption and environmental impacts of treating impaired and otherwise unusable waters.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, released a new report from the Government Accountability ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the New Bedford Chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation was sentenced today for being a felon in possession of a firearm as a result of a federal investigation into a shooting on April 19, 2020, in New Bedford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Political Scientist Author Charged With Acting As An Unregistered Agent Of The Iranian Government.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: The expansion adds 14 additional reefs and banks that provide important habitat for recreationally and commercially important fish, such as red snapper, mackerel, grouper and wahoo, as well as threatened or endangered species of sea turtles, corals and giant manta rays. The expansion extends existing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Steven Daniel Tutor, 42, of Ridgeland, was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, by Senior United States District Judge Tom S. Lee to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for attempted enticement and coercion of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Tutor must also register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) and its contractor Bechtel National, Inc. recently determined the Hanford Site ’s Analytical Laboratory at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) is “Ready to Operate.".
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement regarding Martin Luther King Jr. Day: “Today we honor the life and work of one of the greatest Americans not to be President – a man greater, too, than many who were. Guided by his faith and the ideals of America’s ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement regarding Martin Luther King Jr. Day: “Today we honor the life and work of one of the greatest Americans not to be President – a man greater, too, than many who were. Guided by his faith and the ideals of America’s ...
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of this week’s anticipated confirmation hearing for the incoming Biden Administration’s nominee for Secretary of State Antony Blinken, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican has issued the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2021
News Release: Today, Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham announced his retirement in a message to the Bureau staff and expressed his heartfelt appreciation for their extraordinary accomplishments, especially those related to the successful 2020 Census. The Director also posted a blog which further responds to recent published comments and media reports regarding census data.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of Dr. Jewel Bronaugh to serve as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2021
News Release: Federal law enforcement authorities have publicly expressed concern about the potential for violent demonstrations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia leading up to Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.
