News from October 2021
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $14.5 million in available funding to leverage existing low-carbon energy to scale-up direct air capture (DAC) technology combined with reliable carbon storage. DAC, a carbon dioxide removal approach, is a process that separates carbon...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, announced that a federal grand...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor Isotek successfully completed processing and disposing the low-dose inventory of uranium (U)-233 stored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) this month, ending a two-year effort that has eliminated a portion of the site’s legacy nuclear material and provided rare nuclear isotopes for next-generation cancer treatment research.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - David McDaniels, 29, of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for possession of a stolen firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Adrean Lorenzano, age 22, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was charged by a criminal complaint on Oct. 22, 2021, for online enticement of a minor and the receipt and possession of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Daniel Webster (R-FL), and Subcommittee Chair Dina Titus (D-NV), introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen disaster mitigation and resilience programs administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Daniel Webster (R-FL) from today’s hearing entitled, “Are FEMA’s Assistance Programs Adequately Designed to Assist Communities Before, During, and After Wildfire?":
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: EM joined other government organizations from the U.S., U.K., and Canada last week for a virtual exchange focused on lessons learned and best practices for stakeholder engagement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: The Defendants Operated Boiler Rooms in Multiple Countries to Defraud Victims Around the World of Millions of Dollars by Impersonating Prominent Investment Firms and Individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced in federal court for attempted receipt of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, and cocaine base and to distributing a quantity of heroin and fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of Brent Neiman for Treasury Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development; Joshua Frost for Treasury Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced that a Utah man was sentenced to 42 months in prison for orchestrating an investment scheme involving a start-up mining and precious metals company. Andrew Malcolm Lovett, 60, and a former resident of Cornelius, N.C., also was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Investigation Is Part of International Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Traffickers on the Darknet that Resulted in 151 Arrests Worldwide and the Seizure of Weapons, Drugs and over $31 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former leader of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced today on racketeering and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Defendant underreported $1.7 million in income to the IRS.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the CNMI Nutrition Assistance Program. The signing releases a $30 million grant for the Nutrition...
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of State’s announcement of plans to establish a Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America and the American people, I congratulate all Austrians as you celebrate your National Day.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2021
News Release: For our colleagues at the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), safeguarding the more than 95,000 miles of U.S. maritime border shoreline and 15,000 miles of waterways, seaports, and other commercially navigable waters is a monumental task. They are vital conduits for trade and travel, critical to our national security.
