News published on Federal Newswire in March 2022

News from March 2022


DOI-BLM grant application closes on May 10

Bureau of Land Management Eastern States Recreation and Visitor Services grant opened on March 10.


News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Billy Ray Shamblin, II, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


Former San Jose State University Director Of Sports Medicine Charged With Sexually Assaulting Female Student-Athletes

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Scott Shaw, 54, the former Director of Sports Medicine and athletic trainer at San Jose State University, has been charged today with civil rights violations for engaging in sexual misconduct with female student-athletes under the guise of treating them for their injuries.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Leader of Violent Gang on Staten Island Indicted for Murder in-Aid-of Racketeering

News Release: Defendant Allegedly Led the Gorilla Stone Mafia, Murdered a Defector, Profited from Narcotics Distribution.


News Release: Michael Marotta, 26, of Sewell, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to making threatening interstate communications. Marotta admitted that he used an anonymizing text message service to threaten physical harm to a Black woman and her family in Maryland.


Transportation Department discusses Amendment of the Class E Airspace; Uvalde, TX on March 8

The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


EPA Awards Rebates Totaling $17 Million to Fund Clean School Buses that Reduce Diesel Emissions and Protect Children’s Health (NY)

In addition to the $17 million announced today, in the coming weeks, EPA plans to announce a new Clean School Bus rebate program under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which provides an unprecedented $5 billion over five years, to replace existing school buses with low- or zero-emission school buses.


EPA Awards Rebates Totaling $17 Million to Fund School Buses that Reduce Diesel Emissions and Protect Children’s Health

Electric School Bus Rebates, and the 2021 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) School Bus Rebates


EPA and Colorado announce enforcement partnership to advance environmental justice goals

Colorado is the second state in the nation, following California, to develop a memorandum of understanding with EPA on this topic.


Bipartisan E&C Leaders Request Information from SAMHSA on Rising Mental Health Conditions Amid COVID-19

In their letter, the Committee leaders compared data from 2019 to 2020, which shows an alarming increase in the prevalence of mental health conditions as the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe.


Energy Subcommittee Leader Upton Opening Remarks on American Energy Dominance

Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) delivered opening remarks at today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing on how President Biden’s energy policies have weakened America’s national security, raised costs on families, and emboldened Russia.


Leader Rodgers Remarks on President’s Expected Ban on Russian Oil

Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing on how President Biden’s energy policies have weakened America’s national security, raised costs on families, and emboldened Russia.


E&C Republicans Call on POTUS & Granholm to Stop Importing Russian Oil and Increase American Energy Production and Exports

“We’ve all watched the Russian invasion in horror, some of us have even heard direct requests from President Zelensky urging the US to abandon Russian oil.


Manchin: The United States Must Unleash Its Vast Energy Resources To Counter Putin’s Weaponization Of Energy

Manchin says America can contribute to the free world’s energy demands while also reducing emissions


Farley Man Charged with Producing, Distributing Child Pornography

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Farley, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with producing and distributing child pornography.


News Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of Morocco and the United States of America.


Two Gastonia Drug Traffickers Are Sentenced To 15+ Years In Federal Prison

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. handed down lengthy prison sentences to two individuals convicted of drug trafficking in Gaston County, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.


Biden announces plans to increase clean energy, lower electric vehicle prices

In his March 1 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden announced changes he wants to make to combat climate change and cut energy costs for American families.