News from March 2022
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: To many, the term “freshwater" elicits images of rushing streams or wide-open glacial lakes. However, many of Earth’s freshwater needs are met by a resource that’s not as majestic or even visible at all. But as the theme of 2022 World Water Day, groundwater is getting a long overdue spotlight.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 45-year-old man has been indicted on alien smuggling charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Everglades National Park today announced the reopening of the West Lake Trail. The trail was heavily damaged when Hurricane Irma passed through the area in 2017 and has been closed for repairs since February 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - Ten additional Texas doctors and a healthcare executive have agreed to pay a total of $1,680,430 to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving illegal kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, and to cooperate with the Department’s investigations of and litigation against other parties, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: Seventeen Democratic members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee wrote to Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), today outlining their recommendations and priorities as the agency implements the broadband programs in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed modification to a final rule that aims to create a streamlined, efficient and flexible process allowing the department to use its resources strategically to remove barriers to equal employment opportunity.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg woman was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for her role in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A South Korean woman and a local Texan have been indicted for trafficking counterfeit goods, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: FOR WHOM: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recipients.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: Sulphur, Okla.- The Veterans Lake Fire started as a controlled burn (brush pile) on private land on Saturday evening, March 19, 2022. It escaped containment at approximately 6:30pm on Sunday, March 20, 2022 and spread quickly into Chickasaw National Recreation Area. Incident Commander is Josh Williams...
By Tamara Browning | Mar 22, 2022
Eleven Missouri school districts will be splitting $535,000 in rebate opportunities to replace 26 older buses with clean-energy models.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
Release: At a high-level dialogue on March 22 in San José, Costa Rica, Under Secretary Jose W. Fernandez and Assistant Secretary Monica P. Medina announced U.S. government support for the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
DRL Burma Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) Documentation Project grant opened on March 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A Key West man was sentenced yesterday to 180 months’ imprisonment for laundering approximately $1 million of victim funds that were illegally obtained from romance and investment fraud scams that targeted elderly victims.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Katie Porter (D-Calif.) today released the following joint statement regarding the announcement of Ambassador Joe Yun as the new Special Presidential Envoy for negotiations with the Freely Associated States-the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau-to extend the Compacts of Free Association...
By John Kelly | Mar 22, 2022
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkos named 33 new members to the Security Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing several firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso. March 20, 2022. Casper Star Tribune. After two weeks of war and a bipartisan push in Congress, President Biden finally banned imports of Russian oil, natural gas, and coal. The idea was simple: an energy superpower like America should not fund Putin’s killing machine. ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
INFRA Grants grant opened on March 22.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, March 18th, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Charleston, West Virginia to highlight how the Department of Energy and the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are supporting advancements in clean energy technology, strengthening supply chains through made-in-America manufacturing, and ensuring an equitable transition to renewable energy for Appalachian communities.
