News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the appointment of eleven nuclear science, business, academic, and industry leaders to the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (NEAC).
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently built a full-scale, electrically heated prototype to support the U.S. Department of Energy’s new MARVEL microreactor project. The prototype is one of the largest components ever machined at the lab and will be used to help validate the project’s final microreactor design that could be operational within the next two years.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Eight Virginia men, who conspired to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, have been sentenced to federal prison.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Danville man at the center of a conspiracy that distributed more than 500 grams of methamphetamine in Danville between March 2018 and October 2018, was sentenced on Friday, February 4, 2022, to 10 years in prison.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
As part of a long-standing tradition, the DEA Washington Division will take the month of February to honor the contributions and history of our African American community.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative, Operation Overdrive, aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 467,000 jobs in January.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $17.6 million to California as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to protect the U.S. nursery system. Overall, USDA is providing ...
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced their new initiative -- Operation Overdrive -- aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative, Operation Overdrive, aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative, Operation Overdrive, aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, pressing him for details as to EPA’s reported proposals to regulate the power sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY- Earlier today, a federal grand jury indictment was unsealed in the Western District of Oklahoma charging two men with two-counts of committing hate crimes, announced Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and United States Attorney Robert Troester for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider the nominations of Ms. Maria D. Robinson to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for the Office of Electricity, Dr. Joseph F. DeCarolis to be Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, and Ms. Laura Daniel-Davis to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: DANVILLE, Va.- The Danville man at the center of a conspiracy that distributed more than 500 grams of methamphetamine in Danville between March 2018 and October 2018, was sentenced on Friday, February 4, 2022, to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that GEOVANNY FUENTES RAMIREZ was sentenced today to life in prison for cocaine-importation and weapons offenses. A jury convicted FUENTES RAMIREZ in March 2021 after a two-week trial. The sentence was imposed by the Honorable P. Kevin Castel, who also presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Alfred E. Jerry, 30, of Charleston, lllinois, was sentenced today to fourteen years and three months’ imprisonment, to be followed by an aggregate five-year term of supervised release, for the armed robbery of the Team Wireless store in Charleston. Jerry was originally sentenced on Feb. 11, 2020, but was resentenced after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago vacated his initial twenty-two-year sentence based on a change in federal law.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the U.S. Army’s investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyrone Kareem Thomas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 57 months of incarceration for his role in a drug distribution enterprise, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
