News from August 2022
By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Aug. 17, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has deleted a portion of the Himco Dump site in Elkhart, Indiana, from Superfund’s National Priorities List, or NPL. Cleanup has been completed at the landfill area, four adjacent properties, and 43 downgradient properties. EPA has determined that while operation, maintenance, and monitoring activities will continue there, no further cleanup is needed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A South Carolina man who referred to himself and his girlfriend as the “modern-day Bonnie and Clyde" has admitted using information gleaned from stolen mail to steal or attempt to steal more than a million dollars from multiple victims.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a community meeting for residents of Salinas, Puerto Rico to share information about health risks from the chemical ethylene oxide or EtO, which is being emitted from a facility called Steri-Tech, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Obstructing Justice by Retaliating Against a Witness was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2022 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator Daniel Whitley issued the following statement today regarding weekly export sales reporting.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON (Aug. 17, 2022) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), and the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) to announce assistance for 25 small and rural communities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: AUSTIN - A San Antonio man was sentenced last Friday to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,175,866.91 in restitution for embezzling that amount from the City of Johnson City, Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Ways and Means Committee on Aug. 30.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $6 million grant to Building Bridges Across the River, Washington, D.C., to build an environmental education center at the new 11th Street Bridge Park. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Kayla Baker was sentenced on Aug. 29 in federal court to five years in prison. Baker, 26, of Ganado, Arizona, pleaded guilty on May 19 to involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that RAJHNI YANKANA, 27, of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to a charge stemming from his fraud against Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A California man has been arrested in connection with his alleged involvement in a sophisticated securities fraud scheme that generated over $7 million in illicit proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $676,090 grant to Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation (CCTI), Colorado Springs, Colorado, to create a technology business accelerator program in Ogden, Utah. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Aug. 17, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it has deleted a portion of the Summit National site in Deerfield Township, Portage County, Ohio, from the Superfund’s National Priorities List, or NPL. Cleanup continues at the groundwater portion of the site which remains on the NPL along with surface water and sediment areas.
By State Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Fayetteville man was sentenced yesterday to 126 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Offense. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY), and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) today introduced the Protecting Speech from Government Interference...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
News Release: A former Statesboro, Georgia city councilman was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for evading taxes on income from bars he co-owned.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a four page notice on Aug. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2022
Release: DOE Seeks Public Feedback on President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Grid Resilience Innovation Programs that Enhance the Power Grid’s Ability to Deliver Cheaper, Cleaner Energy to American Communities
