News from March 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress last week, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, introduced the Federal Contracting for Peace and Security Act, to prohibit the United States from conducting business with companies currently operating in Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) operation resulted in the charging and arrest of 20 defendants for various offenses, including drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
Fiscal Year 2022 Flood Mitigation Assistance Swift Current (FMA Swift Current) grant opened on March 21.
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
Release: On behalf of the Government and the people of the United States of America, I congratulate the Namibian people as you celebrate 32 years of independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 41 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws in connection with a large-scale investigation conducted by the Greater Pittsburgh Safe Streets Task Force, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Nevada Threatened and Endangered Species grant opened on March 21.
By Press release submission | Mar 21, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding the Bear Creek Sediments Site in Baltimore County, Maryland, to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for remedial cleanup action financed under the federal Superfund program.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: Berlin, MD- For the year of 2021 Assateague Island National Seashore received a record 2,662,716 visitors to our Maryland and Virginia units. This put Assateague Island 33rd among the 380 National Park Units reporting visitation numbers, and ahead of such iconic locations as Mount Rushmore, Bryce Canyon and Shenandoah. Summer visitation increased slightly over a record-breaking summer of 2020, but much of the increase came in the Spring and Fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A Shelbyville, Kentucky woman pleaded guilty last week to embezzling funds from her employer and including false information on her tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesenia Isabel Mendez, 40, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 57 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Mendez was convicted of one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl and one count of Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens for Profit while Placing in Jeopardy the Life of any Person.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO-After thorough public review last spring, and following a separate process later in the summer, the National Park Service will raise parking fees at two NPS-controlled lots in the Presidio of San Francisco starting April 1, 2022. This is the final step of a fee review initiated by the NPS...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced nearly $9 million in funding to 13 American Indian and Alaska Native communities for 14 projects that will harness their vast undeveloped solar, hydro and geothermal energy resources, reduce or stabilize energy costs, and increase...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “LEGISLATIVE SESSION” on March 17.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM grant opened on March 21.
By Press release submission | Mar 21, 2022
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today sent a letter to Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), calling on the agency to provide evidence to support suggestions from the White House and Democrats in Congress that market manipulation, collusion, or other improper or illegal behavior in the gasoline and crude oil markets is responsible for the surges in gas prices in the U.S.
By Press release submission | Mar 21, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm inviting her to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee on what the Biden administration will do to reverse its anti-American energy agenda and help increase domestic oil and gas production in order to lower costs.
By Press release submission | Mar 21, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed H.R. 1667, Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and H.R. 189, the John Lewis NIMHD Research Endowment Revitalization Act of 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Kietra R. Studdard, age 44, of Fenton, Missouri appeared before United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on today’s date. Studdard pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine; possession of pseudoephedrine with intent to manufacture methamphetamine; and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Studdard was previously indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 3, 2020.
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2022
Release: The United States is designating Sudan’s Central Reserve Police (CRP) for serious human rights abuses committed during protests calling for democracy. We are taking this step to hold to account those perpetrating abuses and to deter future violence. The CRP, a militarized police unit involved in multiple...
