News from February 2022
By Savannah Howe | Feb 15, 2022
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is investing over $20 million in drought resiliency projects across five western states.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM is set to deactivate and demolish the prototype for a reactor plant used for the first nuclear-powered submarine, a major step toward advancing environmental cleanup at the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on supporting workers facing challenges finding good, high-paying jobs by ensuring they have access to high-quality workforce development opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: Hangman, a convicted felon, led police on a chase from Minnesota to Iowa.
By Caleb Lombardo | Feb 15, 2022
Last month, Dr. Kathryn Huff was nominated by President Biden for the open position of Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy for the Department of Energy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will increase its non-refundable application fee for special use permits and commercial use authorizations at Mount Rainier National Park beginning March 1, 2022. Special use permits are required for wedding applications, commercial photography and other events that provide...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Scott Everly, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is calling for applications for the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). The joint lab call announced today is the result of a collaborative effort between the DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), eight DOE program offices, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a large international money laundering conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: A Mason City man who was part of a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin with his son was sentenced Feb. 11, 2022, to more than 17 years in federal prison.
By David Beasley | Feb 15, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to add the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly to the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: BOISE - A Caldwell man was sentenced to 324 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: The leader of a drug trafficking organization that distributed cocaine and methamphetamine to buyers in Tulsa was sentenced Friday in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Richard “Fat Jesus" Wheeler, 38, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty in federal court on Feb. 10 to an indictment charging him with three counts of distribution of 50 grams and more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine, two counts of using and carrying a firearm during...
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: Physician practice located in North Easton.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces District recently announced the completion of two repair projects as part of the Great American Outdoors Act: a $87,400 Caballo Mountains and Cooke’s Peak roads project and a $189,000 Permian Trackways road project.
By Kaleb Brown | Feb 15, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation recently selected Bart Deming as the next construction engineer and manager for the Upper Colorado Basin Region's Four Corners Construction Office, replacing Patrick “Pat” Page, who retired in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Gene Barron, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug distribution enterprise, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Damion Phillip Gress, age 25, of Franklin County, was sentenced to 210 months’ imprisonment to be followed by 10 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson for offenses involving the exploitation of minors.
