News published on Federal Newswire in July 2022

News from July 2022


DOC offers new grant application process starting July 26

FY2023 Ocean Technology Transition Project grant opened on July 26.


Secretary Antony J. Blinken At the Department of State Office of Accessibility and Accommodation’s Access Center to Commemorate the 32nd Anniversary of the Signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act

News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: This is really a remarkable space. First of all, I remember when I was last at State and some of these efforts were in a more nascent stage. It’s particularly wonderful and powerful to see what you’ve done, both with the Access Center and just the deployment of technology, the training that’s being done for people, making the workforce aware of what’s actually available.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTONIO SMALL, also known as “Tone" and “Bert," 30, formerly of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 300 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine in Bridgeport.


News Release: ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. - Craig Wayne Simpson, 53, of Hertford County was sentenced to 150 months in prison and five years of supervised release for producing and trafficking meth. The sentencing judge noted several factors contributing to the sentence including the substantial risk to human life caused...


News Release: DOE plans to further advance equity in research and development and clean energy, and among the ways EM supports this effort is through its Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP).


News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Lufkin man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for drug trafficking related violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.


CEO of Titanium Blockchain Pleads Guilty in $21 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme

News Release: The CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. (TBIS) pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme involving TBIS’s initial coin offering (ICO) that raised approximately $21 million from investors in the United States and overseas.


News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The previous EM Savannah River Site (SRS ) liquid waste contractor, Savannah River Remediation (SRR), recently earned an overall “excellent" performance rating and nearly $16 million or 95.5% of the available fee for the evaluation period of Oct. 1, 2021 through Jan. 31, 2022, according to the award fee determination scorecard.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Eighteen defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri after law enforcement officers seized approximately 29 pounds of methamphetamine, approximately $57,000, and firearms.


Congressional Record publishes “RECOGNIZING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF RADIO FREE ASIA AND ITS MISSION TO PROVIDE AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF NEWS TO CLOSED SOCIETIES IN ASIA”  on July 26

“RECOGNIZING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF RADIO FREE ASIA AND ITS MISSION TO PROVIDE AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF NEWS TO CLOSED SOCIETIES IN ASIA” was published on pages S3687-S3688 of the Congressional Record on July 26.


DOI-BLM grant application closes on Sept. 27

Bureau of Land Management Colorado Rangeland Resource Management grant opened on July 26.


News Release: A. Smith: Americans Can’t Afford More of Dems’ Failed Leadership on Broken Supply Chains.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Representative Betty McCollum (D-MN) have introduced the Global Food Security Act of 2022 (H.R. 8446 ), reauthorizing Feed the Future for five years through 2028.


News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I send my best wishes to the Maldivian people on their Independence Day on July 26.


News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. Mr. President, it’s a pleasure to have you here at the State Department in the United States. To our colleagues, I’m especially pleased to be able to meet today with the president of Guyana.


News Release: Brady: Americans Are Still Suffering One Year After President Biden Denied Inflation.


News Release: Join a Park Ranger on a hike to the first railroad tunnel in America, the Staple Bend Tunnel, on Sunday, July 31, 2022, at 2:00 pm. Reservations are required for this free hike and can be made by calling 814-886-6150.


Joint Statement on Execution of Pro-Democracy and Opposition Leaders in Myanmar

News Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union, and the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States, condemning the military regime’s execution of pro-democracy and opposition leaders in Myanmar.


Leader of Illegal Pill Distribution Network Sentenced to 25 Years for Violating Federal Narcotics, Firearms and Fraud Laws

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 25 years imprisonment on his conviction of violating federal narcotics, firearms and health care fraud laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced an additional Notice of Sale of up to 20 million additional barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This Notice of Sale is part of President Biden’s announcement...