News from November 2021
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $77 million in grants awarded to projects that reduce diesel emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older, dirtier engines and vehicles, including $1,009,060 to the University of Puerto Rico replace long haul trucks with new vehicles.
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
JILA researchers have tricked nature by tuning a dense quantum gas of atoms to make a congested “Fermi sea,” thus keeping atoms in a high-energy state, or excited, for about 10% longer than usual by delaying their normal return to the lowest-energy state.
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Bert Frost announced the selection of Jeremy Sweat as superintendent of Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, Missouri. In this capacity Sweat will serve as the Group Superintendent overseeing operations at for both Gateway Arch National Park and Ste.
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
A local area woman pleaded guilty in federal court in connection with her role as the coordinator of a human smuggling operation in Avondale, Ariz., following a probe by U.S.
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $70 million for research in Earth system model development which will contribute to further development of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) through collaborations that will use DOE high performance computers to enable advanced modeling via mathematical and computational solutions.
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
An Essex County man with a prior felony conviction today admitted illegally possessing a loaded handgun and a magazine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Press release submission | Nov 25, 2021
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Switzerland’s President Guy Parmelin signed a memorandum of understanding today to expand apprenticeships among Swiss companies and Swiss-invested companies in the U.S., and promote job creation in both countries.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Nov 24, 2021
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, successfully returned a trove of stolen artifacts to Mali on Monday.
By George Willis | Nov 24, 2021
Announcement kicks off Tribal Nations Summit
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted El Salvadorian nationals Junior Noe Alvarado-Requeno, a/k/a “Insolente" and “Trankilo," age 24, of Landover, Maryland, and Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, a/k/a “Reaper," age 41, of Long Branch, New Jersey yesterday for conspiring to participate in La Mara Salvatrucha...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Moline, Illinois man, Devon Allen McConnell, age 36, was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021 by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 200 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Michael A. Deshong and Adam Gordon (619) 546-9290.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHAWN BATTLE, 49, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for a narcotics trafficking offense.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - An eastern South Dakota man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge of receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials expect travel out of Baltimore/Washington-Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI) to see a return to pre-pandemic passenger levels during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: BOISE - A Caldwell man pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) added Malaysia to the list of regions that the APHIS considers to be affected with African Horse Sickness (AHS). AHS is a fatal viral disease affecting horses. On Sept. 2, 2020, the veterinary authorities of Malaysia ...
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
Release: Preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) is a human rights imperative and one this Administration is committed to championing. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, GBV impeded women and girls’ free and full participation in society. The pandemic has only exacerbated existing gender inequities,...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man, Jarad Paul Postell, age 40, was sentenced on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 25 years in prison for Conspiracy to Manufacture, Distribute, and Possess with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl Purported to be Heroin...
