News from June 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced a June 16 hearing on legislation focused on Puerto Rico’s political status. The hearing follows the April 14 panel the full Committee held to examine two bills to resolve the issue.
By DOE 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 EPA 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 Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With billions in taxpayer funds reallocated, hundreds of volunteers deployed to the border, and the U.S. foster care system reaching a breaking point, the consequences of President Biden’s border crisis are intensifying.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Patrick Kain Also Possessed Child Pornography of Other Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joel Malek, age 43, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to possession of a “Molotov cocktail" on June 5, 2020, and admitted to using the improvised incendiary device to set fire to a vehicle in Schenectady.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
Release: 266 Clean Energy Projects Across America Will Help Bring New Technologies to Market and Create Good-Paying Jobs
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Raymond Mathews, age 35, of Oakland Park, Florida, to 48 months in federal prison following his conviction for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The Court further sentenced Mathews to serve...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing with Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Commissioner Rettig, Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) reiterated his request for detailed information on the IRS’s recent “tax gap" estimates. “When you testified earlier before the committee, you estimated...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM ’s Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is rising from the desert.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced new immediate policy actions to scale up a domestic manufacturing supply chain for advanced battery materials and technologies. These efforts follow the 100-Day review of advanced batteries-directed by President Biden’s Executive...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families (Task Force) submitted to President Biden its Initial Progress Report , which details ongoing efforts to identify and reunite children who were unjustly separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border under the prior Administration.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Investments Will Support Biden Administration’s Effort to Strengthen Critical Supply Chains WASHINGTON, June 8, 2021 – Citing lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent supply chain disruptions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to invest more than $4 billion ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Macon Division, seeking to bar an Irwinton, Georgia, tax return preparer from preparing tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: A Wisconsin man was sentenced today to three years in prison for tampering with COVID-19 vaccine doses at the hospital where he worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: A Kinston, North Carolina, woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to file false tax returns for her clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it reached a single agreement with 19 building owners* who rent space in their buildings to stores and restaurants. The agreement requires the owners to fix their buildings so that people with mobility disabilities, like wheelchair users, can get in the door to shop or eat. Physical barriers, like steps at an entrance, can keep people with disabilities out and cause discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: A Florida nurse practitioner and a Florida woman pleaded guilty today to their participation in a conspiracy to falsify clinical trial data. According to court documents, Eduardo Navarro, 52, of Miami, and Nayade Varona, 50, of Port St. Lucie, worked at a clinical research site called Tellus Clinical ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Two individuals pleaded guilty today to conspiring to violate federal and New York State regulations intended to prevent human exposure to asbestos.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2021
News Release: Today’s decision from the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals affirming the conviction of Ratko Mladic on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes brings a measure of long-awaited justice to victims and their families in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
