News from March 2022
By Caleb Lombardo | Mar 31, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy announced March 15 it will be providing $48 million in funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy and the Converting UNF Radioisotopes Into Energy (CURIE) programs.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Mar 31, 2022
Transportation Security Administration is launching a new, cutting-edge passenger identification system at Los Angeles International Airport security checkpoints using facial recognition to verify the identity of guests.
By Savannah Howe | Mar 31, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to add a member of the forget-me-not family to the endangered species list.
By Savannah Howe | Mar 31, 2022
An Ohio man will spent almost six years in prison for stealing pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits.
By Bob Pepalis | Mar 31, 2022
The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Guatemalan international drug trafficker Eugenio Dario Molina-Lopez.
By Andy Nghiem | Mar 31, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor is releasing a directive to promote raising awareness for contractors to identify barriers to equal pay.
By Andy Nghiem | Mar 31, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation released an action plan Feb. 24 detailing proposed procedures to strengthen U.S. supply chains and advance economic recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Spearfish, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on March 28, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers. Secretary Blinken and President Tebboune discussed a range of issues, including ways to expand our economic cooperation and the designation of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: A Chinese national is charged in a criminal complaint, which was unsealed today in the Southern District of New York, with conspiring to act in the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y.- Dionel Hall, 42, of Liverpool, New York, pled guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, and unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, and New York State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to participating in a conspiracy that distributed fentanyl and drugs laced with fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lodge Grass man who was convicted by a jury of sexually abusing two children in the 1990s on the Northern Cheyenne and the Crow Indian reservations was sentenced today to 14 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: "The Department of Energy will execute President Biden’s authorization of an immediate release of one million barrels per day for six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and we are coordinating with our international allies and partners to join us in releasing additional oil from strategic reserves.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Joe Biden announced an unprecedented drawdownfrom the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), intending to place 1 million barrels of oil on the market every day for the next six months and increase fees on federal oil and gas leaseholders. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Chairman David Scott of Georgia delivered the following statement at today's hearing “State of the CFTC".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Following an investigation by Rangers of the National Park Service (NPS), on Friday, March 25, a man pled guilty for violation of the group size limitation on a rim-to-rim hike within Grand Canyon National Park. Joseph Don Mount was ordered to serve two years of supervised probation and is banned from all national parks, national monuments, and federal lands within the state of Arizona.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “FDA User Fee Reauthorization: Ensuring Safe and Effective Medical Devices:"
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will convene a hearing on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, on the President’s fiscal year 2023 Department of Health and Human Services budget. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By John Kelly | Mar 31, 2022
After Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) in November 2021, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the Department of Energy have been making alterations to improve energy and infrastructure systems around the United States.
