News from February 2022
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: St. Simons Island, GA: The staff at Fort Frederica National Monument invite you to join a celebration of the life and contributions of native son Robert S. Abbott. Born on St. Simons Island, Mr. Abbott went on to start the Chicago Defender newspaper and was called the “Father of Black Journalism.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: HOT SPRINGS - A Hot Springs man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Samuel Holbert Brumfield a/k/a “Sammy B," 35, of Many, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter, United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced. Brumfield was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on drug trafficking charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - TriMark USA, LLC of Mansfield, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $48.5 million to resolve allegations that its subsidiaries, TriMark Gill Marketing and TriMark Gill Group, Inc. (collectively, TriMark), improperly manipulated federal small business set-aside contracts around the country...
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Bolstering Democratic Governance and Respect for Human Rights in Indonesia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008649. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance...

By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
DE-FOA-0002684 is a Notice of Intent to Issue DE-FOA-0002614 entitled Carbon Management. grant opened on Feb. 23.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Assaulting Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - An ex-soldier assigned to 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $110,948.29 in restitution to the U.S. Army. On July 2, 2021, Samuel Manu Agyapong was found guilty by a Federal Jury of theft of government property, tampering with a witness, visa fraud, conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, and aiding and abetting naturalization fraud.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led her Republican colleagues on the committee in a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan and Assistant Secretary ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper, (D-Del.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing to highlight the need to restore and protect our nation’s coasts from the impacts of climate change.

By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: Three Men Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to a Plot to Attack Power Grids in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - To improve wildlife habitat and reduce wildfire intensity, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Phoenix District plans a prescribed burn of cut and piled juniper from 100 acres of the Agua Fria National Monument. BLM fire personnel will burn piles in the Sycamore Mesa area, about five miles northeast of Cordes Junction. Burning may occur over multiple days between March and May as conditions allow.

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: Defendant Mailed Letters Threating Mass Shootings and Bombings of Individuals Affiliated with LGBTQ+ Organizations and Businesses.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Oakland man was sentenced today in federal court for destruction of letter boxes, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: PINEDALE - The Jonah Interagency Mitigation and Reclamation Office (JIO), created by the Jonah Infill Drilling Project Record of Decision and signed March 2006, provides overall management of monitoring and mitigation activities. The JIO managed a $24.6 million dollar monitoring and mitigation fund originally committed by EnCana Oil & Gas (USA), Inc. and BP America Production Company.

By Andy Nghiem | Feb 23, 2022
Public input and peer reviews are being sought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the agency's proposed screening methodology to evaluate potential chemical exposure risks to communities near industrial facilities.