News from January 2022
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: The Office of Environmental Management (EM) has established its key priorities for calendar year 2022, covering planned cleanup, project construction, acquisition and other important accomplishments to advance EM’s environmental and risk-reduction mission.
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
On Jan. 6, Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents and local law enforcement partners work together to disrupt human smuggling.
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents interdicted two drug smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 375 pounds of marijuana.
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents continue to encounter undocumented individuals using railcars as they travel further into the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the “Building a Better Grid" Initiative to catalyze the nationwide development of new and upgraded high-capacity electric transmission lines, as enabled by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Building a Better Grid will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - James Darius Caje, 28, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, was sentenced on Jan. 11 in federal court to 10 years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. Caje pleaded guilty on June 10, 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 35 checkpoint intercepted a human smuggling attempt involving a tractor-trailer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Quinterrius D’Lon Brown, 20, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 24 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release, on firearms charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2021 bill.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – DHS’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced two new Security Directives and additional guidance for voluntary measures to strengthen cybersecurity across the transportation sector in response to the ongoing cybersecurity threat to surface transportation systems and associated infrastructure. These actions are among several steps DHS is taking to increase the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced funding of $2,677,470 to the Texas Workforce Commission to provide workforce training services at Fort Hood and in seven counties to military service members and their spouses dislocated by delays caused by the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its unanimous approval of the application by WSFS Financial Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware, to acquire Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced that the Committee voted to advance Dr. Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, and Margo Schlanger to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today congratulated the 27 members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce who received the 2021 Presidential Rank Award (PRA).
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with its federal, state, local, and non-governmental partners to support the needs of the areas affected by the devastating severe weather and tornadoes in Kentucky and throughout the South and Midwest. DHS Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas ...
