News from June 2021

By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: CHEYENNE, Oklahoma: Bring the family and join a Park Ranger at Minnie Slief Memorial Library for free storytelling & a craft. For the month of June, kids will learn about wind with “Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind" by Carol Purdy, a tall tale about a homesteading mama and her six children as they use their strength and wits to survive a big windstorm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Don’t delay. If you are a Kentucky homeowner, renter or business owner who had property damage or loss caused by the severe storms from Feb. 27 to March 14, you have two weeks left to apply for federal disaster assistance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida -- A prior convicted felon from Miami with alleged ties to the national “Bloods" gang and the local “77 Street" gang has been indicted by a South Florida grand jury on federal firearms charges, including illegal possession of machine guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Brendan J. Eardly, 50, of Troy, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 348 months in prison for producing child pornography by enticing juvenile males to send him sexually explicit videos and images via social media.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that 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 DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that 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 DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday and Friday, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to West Virginia to tout the American Jobs Plan, the Biden Administration’s efforts to empower and uplift coal and power plant communities , and the Department of Energy (DOE)’s clean energy investments in West Virginia.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Select Climate Committee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA), and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the Biden Administration waiving sanctions to allow Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to move forward.

By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCaul, all committee members, thank you very, very much for this opportunity to talk about our proposed budget and how it will help achieve our national security priorities and deliver results for the American people, which is what I know all of us are about.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Bloomington, Ill., man, Jacob R. Schultz, 36, of the 500 block of W. Seminary St., was sentenced on June 3, 2021, to serve 20 years in prison for distribution of heroin that resulted in the death of an individual in November 2018. In addition to the prison sentence, Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm ordered that Schultz remain on supervised release for five years following his release from prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Qundre Isaiah Payton, of Institute, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 days of incarceration for a firearms charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Select Climate Committee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA), and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the Biden Administration waiving sanctions to allow Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to move forward.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
Release: First Energy Earthshot Aims to Slash the Cost of Clean Hydrogen by 80% to $1 per Kilogram in One Decade
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) opened today’s hearing on the dangers of the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play-an infant recliner that was recalled in April 2019-and the failures of infant product safety by emphasizing the need for Fischer-Price and Mattel to answer for the deaths of infants due to their product, and any potential negligence on their part in producing a product that resulted in deaths.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: MILWAUKEE - The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event July 9-10, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at the Windom Arena, 1480 8th Avenue, Windom, Minnesota.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Two Dominican Republic citizens pleaded guilty June 7 to using stolen personal identification information to obtain high-end electronic devices, such as cell phones, laptop computers, tablets and watches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: EL PASO - Wilver Jose Polanco-Alvarez, a 26-year-old Dominican Republic citizen residing in Miami, and Jose Eduardo Gomez Salas, a 25-year-old Dominican Republic citizen residing in New York, admitted in federal court today to using stolen personal identification information to obtain high-end electronic devices such as cell phones, laptop computers, tablets and watches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Coachella, California man was sentenced to federal prison today for transporting five pounds of methamphetamine from Coachella to Aumsville, Oregon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Select Climate Committee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA), and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the Biden Administration waiving sanctions to allow Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to move forward.