News from March 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced subcommittee assignments for the 117th Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Subcommittee Leader on Energy Fred Upton (R-MI), and Republican Subcommittee Leader on the Environment and Climate Change David McKinley (R-WV) released this statement after the Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats introduced their plan to raise energy prices and shutter America’s all-the-above energy strategy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An Oregon biotechnology consultant pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in an insider trading scheme involving the acquisition of a Cambridge biotechnology company in 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act - ambitious new climate legislation that ensures the United States acts aggressively to tackle the climate crisis this decade and achieve net zero greenhouse gas pollution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Four Charged in $32 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $3.6 million to 10 projects for advanced water treatment research and development. The Desalination and Water Purification Research Program funding seeks to improve technologies for water supply development from nontraditional waters, including seawater, brackish groundwater, and municipal wastewater.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that S.A. Taylor, LLC (“S.A. Taylor") has agreed to settle claims under the False Claims Act and to pay $561,411.72 based on allegations that the company caused the submission of falsified payroll records as part of two United States Department of Veterans Affairs (the “VA") construction projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Edmond Dewayne Miller, 23, of Meridian, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III, to 51 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Miller was also ordered to pay a $1,500.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray today announced that he will resign from his position effective March 6, 2021.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act - ambitious new climate legislation that ensures the United States acts aggressively to tackle the climate crisis this decade and achieve net zero greenhouse gas pollution.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Subcommittee Leader for Health Brett Guthrie delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on telehealth during COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Acting Administrator D. Christopher Evans today announced the release of the 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, DEA’s annual publication outlining the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: The United States congratulates the people of El Salvador on holding successful legislative, municipal, and PARLACEN elections. We applaud the broad participation of Salvadorans in the elections despite the many challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These results represent the voices of the Salvadoran people. We urge all parties to work together to resolve any remaining concerns about this election peacefully.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed a strategic partnership with Brasfield & Gorrie, in which the agency and construction management firm will promote worker safety and health at the Grandview Physicians Place II project in Birmingham. The University of Alabama's Safe State program will also support the effort.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) today introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act - ambitious new climate legislation that ensures the United States acts aggressively to tackle the climate crisis this decade and achieve net zero greenhouse gas pollution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that James Sydnor Willis, 40, of Aiken County, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
Release: MILWAUKEE - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped two passengers from carrying firearms onto airplanes at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) on Saturday, Feb. 27. The incidents were not related.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested a former special agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on federal bribery charges that allege he accepted cash payments and other benefits to provide assistance to a person linked to organized crime, including taking official action designed to help two foreign nationals gain entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Nicole Dean, 45, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Subcommittee Leader for Health Brett Guthrie delivered remarks at a subcommittee hearing on telehealth during COVID-19.
