News from June 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) have released the following statement...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) announced a new academic partnership with the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London (King’s College) to expand the Center’s research efforts into counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting strategies and intellectual property. This marks the first international academic agreement in the battle against misinformation and illicit trade with the goal to keep the public safe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announces that a federal jury in Montgomery, Alabama found defendant Tiffany Culliver Franklin, 41, of Montgomery, guilty on all charges in a financial fraud case. Chief United States District Judge L. Scott Coogler presided over the trial, which started on June 7, 2021 and ended the following day. Franklin is scheduled to be sentenced in the fall of 2021.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
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), issued the following statement in response to the announcement that TC Energy will terminate the Keystone XL Pipeline project permanently. Construction of the pipeline was stopped following President Biden’s Inauguration Day executive order.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: ANNISTON, AL - Freedom Riders National Monument (FRRI), in partnership with the City of Anniston and Main Street Anniston, will host a series of free movie nights in Zinn Park throughout the summer of 2021. Films featured at these events will explore civil rights history through stories about activism, courage, and perseverance.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $54 million for diverse small businesses working on scientific, clean energy, and climate solutions for the American people. Of the 266 projects announced today, DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will award $22 million in funding for 110 projects to develop a range of American-made cutting-edge technologies to help accelerate the national transition to a clean energy economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published DNA Mixture Interpretation: A Scientific Foundation Review. This draft report, which will be open for public comment for 60 days before being published in final form, reviews the methods that forensic laboratories use to interpret evidence containing a mixture of DNA from two or more people.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau’s Data Stewardship Executive Policy Committee (DSEP) announced it has selected the settings and parameters for the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) for the 2020 Census redistricting data (PL-94-171). The DAS uses a mathematical algorithm to ensure that the privacy of individuals is sufficiently protected while maintaining high levels of accuracy in the statistics we produce.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “A Humane Response: Prioritizing the Well-Being of Unaccompanied Children:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Pembroke man was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for cocaine distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Law enforcement authorities today arrested 12 defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they conspired to traffic large quantities of methamphetamine from their suppliers in Mexico into and throughout the Inland Empire.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Brady Statement on Strong Bipartisan Senate Support for MTB and GSP.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement following the news that TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, will terminate the project.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “A Humane Response: Prioritizing the Well-Being of Unaccompanied Children:"
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, the Senate passed the Cyber Response and Recovery Act, authored by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which will provide additional resources and better coordination for serious cyberattacks or breaches that risk the safety and security of Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, Jersey, man today admitted offering bribes to a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee to steal check books and credit cards from the mail, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is one of 32 parks and park partners to receive an Open OutDoors for Kids Hybrid Learning grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF). The NPF works in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) and the park partner community to ensure...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on President Joe Biden’s border crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Uēkahuna, the awe-inspiring cliff top at the summit of Kīlauea volcano in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, has reopened to the public. A half-mile of Crater Rim Drive and Crater Rim Trail west of Kīlauea Overlook to the Uēkahuna bluff parking lot have also reopened.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Defendant Struck and Kicked Police while Armed with Mace and Boot Knife.
