News published on Federal Newswire in July 2021

News from July 2021


DOE Announces $42.3 Million and New Industry Partnerships to Decarbonize American Manufacturing

Release: During “Manufacturing Week” DOE Launches New Funding Opportunity and Selects Industry Partners to Pilot Clean, Efficient Technologies in Real-World Conditions


New York Woman Sentenced To 10 Months’ Imprisonment For Counterfeit Currency

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 29, 2021, Courtney Murray, age 23, of Slingerlands, New York, was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release, by United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani, for conspiring to pass counterfeit currency.


News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla -- FEMA has approved grants totaling $6,296,948 to reimburse the Florida Department of Transportation and West Florida Electrical Cooperative Inc. for Hurricane Michael-related recovery expenses.


Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2021/2022 marketing year.


USDA Designates Winnebago County, Illinois, as a Primary Natural Disaster Area

News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...


Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


Barrasso Remarks at Hearing to Consider Legislation on Puerto Rico’s Financial Management

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to consider S. 375 and its House-passed companion measure, H.R. 1192, the Puerto Rico Recovery Accuracy in Disclosures Act of 2021, commonly known as PRRADA.


News Release: Washington, D.C.- Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Path Forward: Advancing Treatments and Cures for Neurodegenerative Diseases."


News Release: CHICAGO - A Disaster Recovery Center will open in Jefferson Chalmers on Friday, July 30, to help renters, homeowners and business owners affected by the June 25 - 26 severe storms and flooding.


New Orleans Man Who Illegally Possessed a Machinegun Is Sentenced to Ninety Months Imprisonment

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On July 28, 2021, United States District Judge Lance M. Africk sentenced OLIN GRANT, JR., to ninety months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for being in possession of a machinegun and a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, has pled guilty to a charge of making a false statement to purchase firearms, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.


Secretary Antony J. Blinken And Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah At a Joint Press Availability

Release: FOREIGN MINISTER AL-SABAH: (Via interpreter) To start, I would like to welcome my friend, Mr. State Secretary Antony Blinken, in his visit, first visit to Kuwait, while I am a minister of - foreign affairs minister. We were honored today in the morning to meet his highness the amir of the country, Sheikh...


News Release: CONCORD - Richard Stanton, 34, of Hope, Maine was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, firearms, and fraud offenses, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.


Leader Rodgers: Lifesaving Research will Stall with Speaker Pelosi’s Radical Government Price Controls

News Release: Washington, D.C.- Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Path Forward: Advancing Treatments and Cures for Neurodegenerative Diseases."


Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An accountant for the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe made her initial appearance in federal court today for allegedly embezzling more than $140,000 from the Tribe.


Graves Statement from Hearing Examining the Impacts of the Government’s COVID-19 Relief and Response Efforts

News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s hearing entitled, “Assessing the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Relief and Response Efforts and its Impact":


News Release: Avalos Acted as an International Narcotics Importer; Two Firearms Found in Her Residence; Officers Recovered Approximately 866 grams of Fentanyl, Approximately 1,505 grams of Cocaine, and at least 36,897 grams of Marijuana.


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Homer L. Wilkes to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment.


Former Colorado Judge Sentenced for Obstructing Federal Investigation of Drug Trafficking Organization

News Release: DENVER - A former Colorado state court judge was sentenced Wednesday in the District of Colorado to a year and one day in prison for obstructing a federal task force investigation of a large-scale cocaine trafficking organization.