News from January 2022

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
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By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
This week, we reflect upon the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and our efforts at the U.S. Department of State to live up to his vision for a more peaceful, equitable, and just world. Dr. King’s final Christmas sermon, delivered in 1967, strikes a chord:

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Cody Fingland, 23, of Webster, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio woman was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for fraud.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda Young and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra questioning how President Biden’s border crisis led to the Administration’s decision to divert billions of dollars from critical COVID relief programs.

By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) approved seven additional exchanges of 13.4 million barrels of crude oil for release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). These releases fall under the authorization published in the DOE announcement on Nov. 23, 2021. Exchange contracts were awarded to the following companies.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has updated the USCIS Policy Manual to reflect new guidance on how we determine whether a case warrants expedited treatment.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that revoking the existing antidumping duty order on imports of hydrofluorocarbon blends from China would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Michigan man pleaded guilty in federal court today to sexual abuse of a minor, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
The U.S. Geological Survey is partnering with the University of Alabama to construct a new Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, a science and engineering facility that will support the agency’s Water Enterprise observing networks and research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: A Tulsa drug dealer was sentenced Tuesday for distributing methamphetamine and heroin in the Tulsa-metro area, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Lonnie James Tanner, Jr., of Cameron, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Lucedale man pled guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of high-performance gravity-fed water filters and products containing the same.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation chose nine recipients to receive $1.6 million in Desalination and Water Purification Research Program funding.

By Press release submission | Jan 25, 2022
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain automated put walls and automated storage and retrieval systems, associated vehicles, associated control software, and component parts thereof.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Teens interested in learning more about the field of emergency management are encouraged to apply for FEMA’s Youth Preparedness Council (YPC). The 2022 YPC application period is open now through March 6.