News from June 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Extreme weather from hurricanes and tropical storms can devastate communities along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts, and the threat of subsequent hazard chemical releases can be just as deadly. Damage to physical infrastructure may lead to hazardous materials like ammonia or chlorine...
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to receive my colleague, the foreign minister of Angola, here at the State Department.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
The Departments of State, Treasury, Commerce, and Labor today issued a business advisory on Sudan, highlighting the growing reputational risks to U.S. businesses and individuals associated with conducting business with Sudanese State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) and military-controlled companies.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached settlements with five Massachusetts and New Hampshire construction companies for violations of stormwater regulations that serve to reduce pollution from construction runoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MANSUR MOHAMED SURUR, a/k/a “Mansour," a Kenyan citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to traffic in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory, both endangered wildlife species, which involved the illegal poaching of more than approximately 35 rhinoceros and more than 100 elephants. SURUR also pled guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin to a buyer located in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling announced that on May 27, 2022, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Kimberly Zulkowski (age: 43) to 15 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for her willful failure to account for and pay over taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Zulkowski was also ordered to pay $731,970 in restitution and a $100 special assessment.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
The United States remains concerned about the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and her team’s visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and PRC efforts to restrict and manipulate her visit.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
Hello, and welcome to the Foreign Press Center’s briefing with Deputy Assistant Secretary Mark Lambert from our Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. My name is Wes Robertson; I’m the moderator for today’s briefing.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
We issue this Roadmap for Global Food Security–Call to Action to affirm our commitment to act with urgency, at scale, and in concert to respond to the urgent food security and nutrition needs of millions of people in vulnerable situations the world.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On May 24, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging seven women and six men from the municipality of Ponce with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, and a former doctor in medicine, defendant Julia...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
There were 16 press releases published by the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry in May.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page rule on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Texas man who admitted to repeatedly groping a minor teenage girl who was sitting in the seat in front of him on a flight into Bozeman was sentenced today to 20 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Dr. Hooshang Poor, a Newton geriatric medicine physician, has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that he prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice, a violation of the Controlled Substances Act. Dr. Poor previously resolved allegations in February 2019 that he violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated claims to Medicare and the Massachusetts Medicaid program.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on May 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2022
There are eight releases scheduled to be published on June 2.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds potential partners that the deadline to apply for the second round of funding through the new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities is Friday, June 10, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) continues its efforts to respond to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the United States.
By Press release submission | Jun 1, 2022
The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint advisory to alert the international community, the private sector, and the public to attempts by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and remote DPRK information technology (IT) workers to obtain employment while posing as non-DPRK nationals.
