News from January 2022
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 13, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that Gardner-Gibson, Inc. paid a $650,000 penalty for a 2015 spill of hot asphalt that threatened Commencement Bay and other violations of the Clean Waters Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to the city of Anacortes, Washington.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce seeks qualified nominations for a new Internet of Things Advisory Board to advise the recently established Internet of Things Federal Working Group. The advisory board will include a wide range of stakeholders outside of the federal government with expertise relating to the Internet of Things (IoT).
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La.- FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers in Louisiana will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 17.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded $5 million in grants to develop a diverse talent pool of aviation maintenance technicians. The Aviation Maintenance Technical Workers Workforce Development Grants were awarded to organizations that will teach technical skills and prepare participants to pursue aviation maintenance careers.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has issued the following statement after the Senate failed to enact mandatory sanctions against the Russian malign influence project Nord Stream 2. Mandatory sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline have previously received bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: HAMMOND-Mary Lois Cossey, age 55, of Munster, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon today following her August 2021 plea of guilty to one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: AUBURN, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is working with managing partner California Department of Parks and Recreation at Auburn State Recreation Area on a 176-acre goat grazing project beginning Friday. This project area was initially treated to establish an expanded shaded fuel break through a partnership...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANDRE SMITH, also known as “Dre," 42, of Woodstock, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man pleaded guilty today in connection with illegally possessing and selling firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Springvale man was sentenced in federal court today for fentanyl trafficking, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Netted $4.5 Million in Profits from Sale of Stolen Merchandise.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 13, 2022
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Economic Impact and Diversity has added a fourth division to its suite of offices that address problems of equity, inclusion and opportunity in minority, low-income and under-served communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA - United States Attorney Corey F. Ellis announced today that co-defendants Michael Anthony Dudley, 43, of Hartsville, and Lindsey Munn Butler, 36, of Lamar, were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to drug-related charges. Dudley pleaded guilty to possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man today admitted in federal court that he submitted fraudulent online applications seeking pandemic related unemployment benefits from eight states while collecting benefits from the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Opportunities in Frontier Plasma Science grant opened on Jan. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Eight Others Facing Charges in Two Related Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal district judge has sentenced two Florida residents for conspiring to and illegally attempting to export controlled items to Libya.
