News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - An East St. Louis, Illinois, man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for dealing crack cocaine and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Intercepted during wiretap investigation. A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, man who was involved in the distribution of heroin was sentenced today to five years in federal prison. Antoine D. Jackson, age 35, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison sentence after a June 21, 2021 guilty plea to conspiracy to...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: EM leveraged the results of years of successful work in 2021 to launch a new era for DOE’s cleanup mission, all while continuing to manage the challenging conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. EM summarized its cleanup accomplishments across the complex, including numerous major program priorities, in its 2021 Year in Review released in late December.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Missouri to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds and tornadoes on Dec. 10, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - After a nearly decade-long U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation, a drug trafficker and money launderer received a sentence of more than 15 years in federal prison Jan. 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Americans Anticipate Inflation Will Rob Their Paychecks for the Next Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon commemorates National Human Trafficking Awareness Day-Jan. 11, 2022-and joins its federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement partners in declaring a continued commitment to combating all forms of human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal district judge in West Palm Beach, Florida sentenced a 26-year- old Arizona man to 160 months in prison for selling crystal methamphetamine, cocaine, and other illegal drugs on the dark web to buyers across the country, including South Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: For Possession of Child Pornography. SOUTH BEND - Terry Cottrell, 38 years old, of Winamac, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Cottrell was sentenced...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans today highlighted bills members are leading to combat and stop influence from the Chinese Communist Party in American medical research. E&C Republicans introduced seven bills that increase transparency, improve oversight, and protect biomedical intellectual property through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) series of actions aimed at protecting Americans from toxic coal ash...
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 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 event of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day:
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Study: Biden’s Unemployment Bonus Held Back Economic Recovery.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $13.4 million in funding for next-generation plastics technologies that reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of single-use plastics. The seven selected research and development (R&D) projects - led by industry and universities - will convert...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today applauding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) series of actions aimed at protecting Americans from toxic coal ash...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has opened a 60-day public review and comment period on a proposed rule change affecting the implementation of the park’s 2018 Mount Rainier National Park Fisheries Management Plan. This change in notification of fishing regulations is a key step in implementing the Fisheries Management Plan. The proposed rule change notification was posted Jan. 11, 2022 in the Federal Register.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) have replaced six railroad ties along nearly 8,000 feet of track within the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) following an annual inspection.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ricky J. Patel, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security (“HSI"), announced today the filing of a civil complaint seeking forfeiture of 35 Cambodian and...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists has developed an electronic nose to sniff out whitefly infestations of tomato plants.
