News from March 2021
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced the Committee will hold two fully remote subcommittee hearings on Wednesday, March 24, on the nation’s energy sector, including examining the recent Texas power crisis and the importance of making the nation’s electric grid more resilient in the wake of that crisis.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the full Committee will hold a fully remote hearing on infrastructure legislation on Monday, March 22, at 11 a.m. (EDT) on the critical need to invest in our nation’s infrastructure and on the Leading Infrastructure For Tomorrow’s America Act, or the LIFT America Act, which was introduced last week. The hearing is entitled, “LIFT America: Revitalizing our Nation’s Infrastructure and Economy."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced the Committee will hold two fully remote subcommittee hearings on Wednesday, March 24, on the nation’s energy sector, including examining the recent Texas power crisis and the importance of making the nation’s electric grid more resilient in the wake of that crisis.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: Annual Funding Opportunity Through BIRD Energy Promotes Clean Energy Innovation and Binational Cooperation
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Airmont Agrees to Entry of Consent Order After U.S. Attorney Files Suit and Introduces Evidence That Zoning Code Violates Federal Law.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: Innovations in Clean Hydrogen Production Would Cut Carbon Emissions, Help Meet Climate Change Goals
By USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
Release: March 11, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared a commodity import evaluation document (CIED) for imported sand pear fruit from the Republic of Korea. APHIS is proposing to authorize imports of non-precleared sand pear fruit from the ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Missoula Field Office is planning forest restoration and fuels reduction treatments this spring along the Clark Fork River corridor, between Bonner and Drummond, MT.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Omaha, Neb. - Omaha - National Park Service Regional Director Bert Frost announced the selection of Michelle Wheatley as superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. A 21-year veteran of the National Park Service, Wheatley has worked in a variety of national parks all over the western U.S. and currently serves as superintendent of Jewel Cave National Monument. She will assume her new role late-March.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the Energy Subcommittee Fred Upton (R-MI), and Republican Leader of the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee David McKinley (R-WV) release the following statement about Republican Energy and Commerce agenda for Securing Cleaner American Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Denver, Colorado, man who pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 2, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) today announced the Committee will hold two fully remote subcommittee hearings on Wednesday, March 24, on the nation’s energy sector, including examining the recent Texas power crisis and the importance of making the nation’s electric grid more resilient in the wake of that crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Jerimiah Swanson (22, Cocoa) to six years and eight months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl. Swanson was found guilty by a federal jury on Dec. 10, 2020. He had been indicted on March 18, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the Energy Subcommittee Fred Upton (R-MI), and Republican Leader of the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee David McKinley (R-WV) release the following statement about Republican Energy and Commerce agenda for Securing Cleaner American Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on March.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, provided the following remarks during a virtual event today titled “10 Years of Mass Atrocities in Syria: A Decade of Civilian Suffering" hosted by the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the full Committee will hold a fully remote hearing on infrastructure legislation on Monday, March 22, at 11 a.m. (EDT) on the critical need to invest in our nation’s infrastructure and on the Leading Infrastructure For Tomorrow’s America Act, or the LIFT America Act, which was introduced last week. The hearing is entitled, “LIFT America: Revitalizing our Nation’s Infrastructure and Economy."
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today joined her colleagues in an effort to expose the hypocrisy of government officials who are targeting fossil fuels while themselves relying on fossil fuel-powered transportation.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding President Joe Biden's intent to nominate Janie Hipp to serve as General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected two projects to receive approximately $2 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. The projects will improve coal combustion residuals management under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002190, Research for Innovative Emission Reduction Technologies Related to Coal Combustion Residuals.
