News from January 2022
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today released its report on federal oil and gas leasing and permitting practices, following a review of onshore and offshore oil and gas programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Greensboro man was sentenced on January 5, 2022, in federal court in Greensboro for knowingly possessing with intent to distribute marihuana, possessing firearms in furtherance of that offense, possessing firearms after a previous felony conviction, and possessing body armor after having been convicted of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Today, House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08), and House Ways & Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (TX-08) in a letter to President Biden, slammed the Administration for its failure to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: On Dec. 23, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma entered a consent decree between the United States and Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe permanently prohibiting them from exhibiting animals, terminating their interests in 97 endangered or threatened animals seized from their facility, and affirming that they have legally abandoned their rights to an additional 41 animals covered by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Rodney P. Taylor, 37, of Ashtabula, Ohio, was sentenced on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, by Judge Benita Y. Pearson to 124 months in prison after Taylor pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior announced today that it would begin nation-to-nation consultations with Tribes as it implements the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., on the 52nd anniversary of its occupation by Indigenous activists in pursuit of Tribal self-determination.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEOFFREY GORDON, 51, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today via videoconference by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden to 75 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for supplying cocaine to a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficker.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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) announced the launch of a webpage for whistleblowers as a resource to contact them with information pertaining to their investigation of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - To commemorate International Volunteer Day, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kiran Ahuja and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland volunteered this past Saturday at the Anacostia Watershed Society’s Nash Run Trash Trap cleanup in Washington, D.C., an effort focused on creating ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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) announced the launch of a webpage for whistleblowers as a resource to contact them with information pertaining to their investigation of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg today announced new initiatives that will increase access, support jobs, and enhance the transportation experience on public lands across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -The Department of the Interior announced today that the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) disbursed $8.78 billion in Fiscal Year 2021 from energy production on federal and Tribal lands, and offshore areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced a new rule to help enable the safe and secure storage of firearms and published a Best Practices Guide for federal firearms licensees (FFLs). This new rule implements the existing Gun Control Act requirement that federal firearms licensees that sell firearms ...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
There were 63 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Labor in November.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Today, House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08), and House Ways & Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (TX-08) in a letter to President Biden, slammed the Administration for its failure to...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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) announced the launch of a webpage for whistleblowers as a resource to contact them with information pertaining to their investigation of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: RAPID CITY -Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited South Dakota on Friday, where she highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s commitments to strengthening Tribal communities, protecting our public lands, and investing in the nation’s infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Helena man admitted to crimes today stemming from a scheme to defraud a bank of more than $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and to using the funds instead for his personal benefit, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man who injured two United States deputy marshals by crashing into them while attempting to flee in a stolen truck pleaded guilty in federal court today to forcibly resisting federal law enforcement officers.
