News from July 2022

By DOE Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: The Office of Indian Energy was honored and excited to attend the 2022 Reservation Economic Summit (RES) in Las Vegas, Nevada in May. We spoke with so many of you, learned a lot, and listened to your feedback on ways our office can best support tribal energy projects.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: Northwest Indian College (NWIC) of Bellingham, Washington, will be awarded a grant of up to $5 million to train future scientists and engineers through EM ’s recently expanded Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP ).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: Join a park ranger on Sunday, July 10, 2022, at 2:00 pm, for a hike around the Johnstown Canal Basin area. Space is limited. Reservations are required for this free hike. For more information, including meeting location and to make a reservation, please call the Visitor Center at 814-886-6150.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIC ROMANO, age 21, a resident of Luling, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022 before United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe to a one-count indictment charging him with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve years old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(4)(B).

By State Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
Countering Disinformation International Leadership Exchange Program grant opened on July 5.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - DOE has approved a new plan that will accelerate the disposition of spent nuclear fuel (SNF ) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) by more than 20 years and result in a savings of more than $4 billion dollars.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, has announced two new indictments resulting from the COVID-19 Relief Fraud Strike Force launched by the U.S. Attorney’s Office earlier this year. The Indictments were recently unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: WINDSOR, Conn. - Vanessa R. Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced today that the following four men have been charged on federal narcotics distribution charges primarily related to the large-scale trafficking of counterfeit fentanyl pills containing fentanyl...

By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office, will host two virtual information forums - July 19 and 20 -- to gather public input on the Golden Currant Solar Project proposed on approximately 4,364 acres of BLM-managed public land located in Clark County, Nevada, approximately five miles southeast of Pahrump and 26 miles west of Las Vegas. State Route 160 is less than two miles northeast of the site. The public input period will close August 5, 2022.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRIAN ADAMS, age 22, of Paintsville, Kentucky, was indicted on June 30, 2022 by a federal grand jury for communication of interstate threats to kidnap or injure, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c).

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: Americans’ Economic Expectations for the Next Six Months: Gloom, Grim, and Glum.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis County is facing a federal drug charge after allegedly providing fentanyl to a 19-year-old who then suffered what is suspected to be a fatal overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: Grand Junction - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Megan Hess, age 45, of Montrose, Colorado pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and aiding and abetting.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - Senior United States District Judge Susan Oki Mollway sentenced Jamie Kalani English, age 55, former Majority Leader of the State of Hawaii Senate, today to serve 40 months in federal prison and pay a fine of $100,000 for honest services wire fraud consisting of acceptance of multiple bribes in return for performing, and agreeing to perform, official legislative acts on behalf of a Hawaii businessperson.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man has been charged for allegedly distributing counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, made using multiple pill press machines.

By Bob Pepalis | Jul 5, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Information Josephine Teo announced recently a new partnership between the two countries to promote women in tech.

By Press release submission | Jul 4, 2022
BLM Artist in Residence Delbert Anderson to hold New Mexico Workshop, Play Live in Concert at Centennial High School

By DOE Newswire | Jul 4, 2022
Release: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced yesterday that Ukraine has begun exporting electricity to the European Union using an interconnection with Romania, starting with 100 megawatts. As they increase in volume, power exports from Ukraine will diversify Europe’s energy supply in the midst of Russia’s ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 4, 2022
There were 45 notices published by the Interior Department in June, according to the Federal Register.

By State Newswire | Jul 4, 2022
News Release: Today is Belarus’ official Independence Day. On behalf of the United States of America, I send my warmest wishes to the people of Belarus, wherever they may be.