News from January 2022
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a request for proposals for the fabrication and testing of a prototype eight-axle railcar to carry the nation’s spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The heavy-duty, flat-deck railcar design known as “Fortis" received approval from the Association of American Railroads (AAR) to proceed to building and testing.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants grant opened on Jan. 24.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Humboldt River Field Office opened a 30-day public comment period for a Preliminary Environmental Assessment for the expansion of the Humboldt County Shooting Range. The comment period closes Feb. 22, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Swindled Older Homeowners in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Daniel Porter Critchfield, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, was sentenced today to seven months and 15 days of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico -Approximately 275 public housing complexes representing over 4,600 facilities and structures that suffered damage as a result of Hurricane Maria will be rebuilt with an obligation approved today by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The federal share of more than $554 million to the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration (PRPHA) is in addition to another $109 million in disaster funding for the PRPHA.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member David Rouzer (R-NC) released the following joint statement regarding the Supreme Court of the United States’ announcement that it will consider a case focused on the scope of the definition of “waters of the United States" (WOTUS):
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Due to unprecedented low water conditions at Lake Powell, the Dangling Rope Marina will remain closed throughout 2022. In response to lowering lake levels, park and concessioner staff are removing marina components from the Dangling Rope location to ensure they do not become beached and inaccessible. While the marina is offline this year, the park will retire several components of the marina that are damaged or beyond their lifecycle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Kittery, ME - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) announces the arrest of Michael Rickett, 26, in Kittery, Maine. Rickett was wanted on a warrant issued by the District of Maine federal court for violating his terms of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following activity.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting the Ted Trueblood Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Prescribed Burn, located about two miles north of Grand View between Feb. 1-28, depending on weather and ground conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of suburban Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: ROME, Ga. - A violent Rome-area drug dealer has been sentenced for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Jan. 21, 2022, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Darreon Earl Wright, age 25, of Des Moines, to 183 months in prison for conspiracy to interfere with commerce through robbery; interference and attempted interference with commerce through robbery;...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: To ensure that federal employees have a broader set of modern options for accessing facilities and electronic resources, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has increased the number of acceptable types of credentials that federal agencies can permit as official digital identity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: LYNCHBURG, Va. - A Madison Heights, Virginia man and former veterinarian pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanor drug charges related to his diversion of hydromorphone, an opioid drug also known under the trade name of “Dilaudid.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: Shakespeare Cruz Admits to Distributing Multiple Kilograms of Heroin and Cocaine.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of suburban Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2022
Release: The United States is deeply concerned by events in Burkina Faso. We note that military officers have asserted that they have dissolved the government and national assembly and suspended the constitution. We are also deeply concerned by reports of the January 23 detention of Burkina Faso’s President...
