News from January 2022
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: DELAIR, NJ - Aluminum Shapes LLC will affirm a $1 million penalty and accept 10 willful, 15 repeat and 55 serious violations and one other-than-serious citation in a settlement agreement to resolve two long-running U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration cases related to a fatality and a series of employee injuries at the company’s Delair plant.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: BOSTON – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has led the fiduciaries of a Utica, New York, employee stock ownership plan to agree to return $431,000 to the plan’s participants and take action to resolve its Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Samuel Colby, 39, of Springfield, Vermont was arrested Friday evening for the January 8, 2022 robbery of the 802 Credit Union in Springfield, Vermont. A criminal complaint was filed today in United States District Court, and Colby is expected to have his initial appearance this afternoon. The United States has requested that Colby remain detained pending trial.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the awards of $14 million in cooperative agreements to support a broad set of actions by two projects intended to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, which affects more than 200 million children, women and men worldwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson Police officer was indicted today for physically assaulting a victim and then attempting to cover it up, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2022
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Jake’s Fireworks defendants, including the owner of the Nederland business, have pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
In December, as part of Administration’s approach to strengthen America’s supply chains, address bottlenecks, and lower prices for Americans, the U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy Friday praised NHTSA's final rule aimed at protecting occupants during motorcoach and large bus rollovers but said more needs to be done to provide the same level of safety for lighter-weight buses.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a virtual public board meeting Feb. 8 to consider the draft final report on the Jan. 5, 2020, multivehicle crash near Mt. Pleasant Township, Pennsylvania.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy named her top leadership team Wednesday, including Dana Schulze as managing director of the agency.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
The National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday marked the 40th anniversary of the crash of Air Florida flight 90 with a blog about the accident and how changes were made in its aftermath to improve aviation safety.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Securing Our Energy Infrastructure: Legislation to Enhance Pipeline Reliability:”
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Members Express Concern over High Electric Bills, Underinvestment in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Power, and Inadequate Decarbonization Goals Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to the CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) today requesting information regarding business practices that appear inconsistent with TVA’s statutory requirement to provide low-cost power to residents of the Tennessee Valley and out of concern that TVA is interfering with the deployment of renewable and distributed energy resources.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
In a new letter, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) asks Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm why the Biden administration is endangering our national energy security, raising costs, and forcing America to be dependent on China’s supply chains.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
On Wednesday, January 19 at 2:00 PM ET, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans and the Congressional Western Caucus will host a virtual joint forum on rising American energy prices titled, “Holding the Biden Administration Accountable for Skyrocketing Prices & Failing Energy Policies.”
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter today to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky requesting a briefing on the multiple crises that have occurred under her leadership at the agency.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Lead Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Lead Republican Frank Lucas (R-OK) sent a letter to President Biden on the administration’s lack of response to requests from Congress on COVID-19.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued opinions on President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, welcomed the Department of the Interior’s announcement of an interagency initiative to implement a new federal program for addressing orphaned oil and gas wells.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, praised the Department of the Interior’s announcement that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) will be extending the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund program through 2034.
