News published on Federal Newswire in June 2022

News from June 2022


Energy's Granholm: $504 million loan guarantee will 'fund emerging technologies' in Utah's ACES project

The U.S. Department of Energy has confirmed a $504.4 million loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Utah.



Blinken to journalists: 'A free, independent press is essential"

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reassured journalists, reporters, media professionals and journalism students of the U.S.'s commitment to protecting a free, independent press when he spoke at the Media Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles June 7.


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $8.4 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds to Bolster Infrastructure for Business and Job Growth in North Carolina

Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $8.4 million in American Rescue Plan grants to support North Carolina as it recovers from the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.


U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator Opens Call for Participants, Announces New Partners

U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator Opens Call for Participants, Announces New Partners


Biden Administration Launches Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Initiative to Connect More Clean Energy to the Grid

The Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange Engages Utilities, Clean Energy Developers, Regulators, and Others to Enable More Clean, Affordable Electricity While Ensuring Grid Reliability, and Resilience


Leader Rodgers Commends Legislation to Protect Americans and Ensure U.S. Economic Leadership

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at today’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on legislation to protect Americans and strengthen the economy.


USITC Institutes Section 337 Investigation of Certain Graphics Systems, Components Thereof, and Digital Televisions Containing the Same

The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) voted to institute an investigation of certain graphics systems, components thereof, and digital televisions containing the same.


Nez Perce National Historical Trail more than just scenic

When Sandi Broncheau-McFarland stands on the Nez Perce National Historical Trail she sees two stories.


Blinken: Kremlin 'exporting starvation and suffering well beyond Ukraine's borders'

Secretary of State Antony Blinken placed heavy blame on the Kremlin for global food shortages during discussions at a virtual roundtable discussing the ongoing food crisis.


Peters: 'Cybercriminals may shut down computer systems, expose sensitive data or erase data entirely'

The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a public hearing June 7 focused on cryptocurrency and ransomware.


Joint Statement of the United States of America and Denmark on Cooperation in Quantum Information Science and Technology

Release: The text of the following joint statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Denmark.


News Release: CHICAGO - An alleged drug trafficker charged with distributing heroin in the Chicago area was arraigned today in federal court in Chicago after his extradition from Mexico.


Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews discussed on June 9 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on June 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


TSA seeks to hire officers at Elmira Corning Regional Airport

Release: ELMIRA, N.Y. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring officers to work at Elmira Corning Regional Airport and will have current TSA officers staffing an informational recruitment table near the security checkpoint later this month to provide information about what it is like to work as a TSA officer and to explain the hiring process.


Informational: Federal Court arraignments

News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.


Former local bakery owner arrested for stealing identity of deceased baby, $1.5M pandemic relief fraud

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus woman was arrested in Utah on federal charges related to stealing the identity of a baby who died as an infant. The woman allegedly used the infant’s identity to obtain a passport, a student pilot license, a job as a flight attendant, admission into The Ohio State University and pandemic relief loans.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIQUE PEEPLES, age 25, from Memphis, Tennessee, was charged today by a federal grand jury in a one-count indictment for bringing a seventeen-year-old female from Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans, Louisiana and elsewhere for the purpose...


Long Island MS-13 Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Two Murders, An Attempted Murder, and Drug Conspiracy Charges

News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Jonathan Hernandez, a member of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in connection with his participation...


DOE Invests $6 Million in Seedling Solar Energy Research Projects

News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected 19 projects, with a total funding of $6 million, that will pursue innovative, targeted, early-stage ideas in solar energy research and development. These projects, representing 13 different U.S. states, will support President Biden’s goal of addressing the climate crisis by driving innovation and speeding clean energy deployment to achieve a carbon-free electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero emissions energy sector by 2050.


Three Defendants Sent to Federal Prison as a Result of Project Safe Neighborhoods Cases

News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced the resolution of three cases in Shreveport today involving the illegal possession of firearms. United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote sentenced the following defendants.