News from June 2021
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV), Republican Leader for the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, will host a forum entitled “Mounting Costs: The Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda on the American People and the Economy" on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 4:30 PM ET.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Today, the United States is designating Sa’id Ahmad Muhammad al-Jamal and other individuals and entities involved in an international network he has used to provide tens of millions of dollars’ worth of funds to the Houthis in cooperation with senior officials in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the full Committee voted to pass H.R. 2668, the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act, to restore the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) 13(b) consumer protection powers...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5 million for the American-Made Solar Prize Round 5, a competition designed to accelerate the commercialization of products needed for widespread, equitable solar energy deployment and domestic manufacturing. DOE also announced a new tool that connects innovators with support from DOE’s national labs, business incubators, and other entrepreneurial resources in the American-Made Network to advance their technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Canadian truck driver admitted to a drug trafficking crime today after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents found 211 pounds of cocaine in a trailer load of load of bananas during an inspection as the driver was attempting to enter Canada, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Recommitment to Project Safe Neighborhoods. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Within the past six weeks, nine men have been arrested and charged in federal court with illegal possession of guns in Springfield, Ill., as part of an ongoing cooperative effort to reduce violent crime. As the Department of Justice renews...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Topsham man was sentenced today in federal court for being a felon in possession of firearms, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee markup on methane, energy cybersecurity, and consumer protection bills...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - The list of groups coming out in support of the INVEST in America Act (H.R. 3684) continues to grow. The bill, introduced by Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A Canadian truck driver admitted to a drug trafficking crime June 10 after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents found 211 pounds of cocaine in a trailer load of load of bananas during an inspection as the driver was attempting to enter Canada.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on the President's Proposed Fiscal Year 2022 Budget with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday, June 17, 2021, at 10:00 AM ET in 1100 Longworth House Office Building and remotely via Cisco WebEx.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the full Committee voted to favorably advance four bipartisan bills to improve our nation’s energy cybersecurity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Alfredo Franco, 54, of Sulphur, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge James D. Cain to 1 year and 1 day in prison, followed by 1 year of supervised release, on federal tax fraud charges. Franco was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $961,655.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee blocked a Republican amendment expressing Congress’s disapproval of the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will lead to increased Russian energy dominance throughout Europe. During a full committee markup today, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) delivered the following remarks...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: SELLS, Ariz. - A 14-page indictment, unsealed Friday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, charges 12 people with various human smuggling and money laundering charges resulting from a human smuggling investigation Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Sells, Arizona.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $610,000 grant to the city of Earlington, Kentucky, for water infrastructure improvements needed to accommodate a new retail automotive business and help diversify the regional economy. This EDA grant will be matched with $390,000 in local funds and is expected to help create 20 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Defendants Falsely Claimed They Employed Dozens of Employees, Then Stole Emergency Relief Funds Earmarked for Small Businesses Suffering Economic Effects of the Pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Defendant was Secretary of Massachusetts Latin Kings Leadership.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, objected to Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) attempt to pass the misleadingly named Working Families Flexibility Act, which would fail to provide workers with comprehensive paid...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla, June 7, 2020 - The ACA Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore, announces Félix Blume as its 2021 artist-in-residence. This residency program invites musicians, composers, and ecologists to find innovative approaches...
