News from January 2022
By John Kelly | Jan 3, 2022
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently provided over $3 million to 30 small businesses nationwide for developing new technologies aimed at fighting climate change and other public health concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Pawtucket man has been ordered detained in federal custody for allegedly conspiring to take possession of more than a kilogram of cocaine shipped from Colombia found packed inside an old-model-tube television.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky -Twelve Disaster Recovery Centers are part of a circuit and will operate on a rotating schedule. The centers will be in one location for a week and move to another location for a week. Five other recovery centers will operate as a fixed location.
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: Springfield, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input while considering various possibilities for removal of the Hult Dam & Reservoir in Lane County. In 2017, the BLM identified Hult Dam as a high risk to public safety downstream, including the community of Horton. During a...
By Trina Thomas | Jan 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing up to $100 million in funding through the Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy Technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program to support the deployment of technologies designed to reduce emissions and increase energy efficiency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A West Liberty, Iowa, man, Charles Walter Christopher, 43, was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2021, to a total of 264 months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempted enticement of a minor and committing a sex offense while a registered sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Nicole T. Beattie, 29, of Kearney, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln for possession with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Beattie to 151 months in prison followed by a 5-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Glenn Minnis | Jan 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information related to a terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh that left U.S. citizen Avijit Roy dead and his wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, seriously injured.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS- U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson announced today that the District of Montana collected $16,904,987 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $4,885,558 was collected in criminal actions and $12,019,429 was collected in civil cases worked by the district or jointly with components of the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: The YMCA of Spencer, Iowa, has agreed to settle a dispute regarding an allegation that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to reasonably modify its policies, practices, and procedures, resulting in the exclusion of a child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from its programs.
By State Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Art Benavidez | Jan 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of State recently honored International Migrants Day by reiterating its pledge to support safe, orderly and humane migration globally through the implementation of humanitarian programs.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management’s Burley Field Office will implement its annual seasonal motorized travel closure in the South Hills area Sunday, Jan. 16 to Tuesday, March 15, 2022, to prevent resource damage and protect crucial mule deer winter range and sage-grouse habitat. The area is still open to the public for non-motorized use.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) prevented two Florida men from bringing their guns onto their flights within the last few days. The incidents were not related.
By George Willis | Jan 3, 2022
Trip to New Mexico promotes $8.3 billion Infrastructure Law
By Interior Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) White River Field Office is seeking public input on a proposal to conduct a planned fuels reduction treatment along the north & west portion of the town of Meeker. This action would create a fuel break that would improve firefighter and public safety...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - John J. Farley was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire effective Jan. 1, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Attorney Jessica D. Aber announced today that the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) collected $48,454,99.23 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2021. Of this amount, $24,547,719.25 was collected in criminal actions and $23,907,277.98 was collected in civil actions.
By Art Benavidez | Jan 3, 2022
The Flexible Resources Initiative (FRI) of the U.S.-India Clean Energy Finance Task Force recently found that India’s electricity requirements, expected to double by 2030, can be economically met through the use of renewable and flexible energy plans including thermal power production already present in the country, hydropower, and solar.
