News from March 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A Lebanese national was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 13 years in prison for sex trafficking minors.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - EM Senior Advisor William “Ike" White told an audience at the 2022 Waste Management Symposia on Monday that EM is focused on “clearing the decks" and tackling major remaining hurdles to sustained success.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Daily cost saving measures continue to provide EM ’s Paducah Site with a brighter future.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit Chair Antonio Delgado delivered the following statement after today’s hearing with USDA Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, called on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to delay the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) sign-up deadline and provide flexibility for farmers to purchase crop insurance to help counter the unprecedented disruption in global crop markets brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
Release: The United States is deeply concerned by Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras’ continued, brazen attacks on Guatemala’s justice system through politically motivated arrests and detentions of current and former public servants fighting corruption. The reports of repeated, uncommon delays in arraignment...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Dwight Luis Clarke, age 31, of Germantown, Maryland, for federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, distribution of controlled substances, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
Release: MODERATOR: Dear guests, distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the press, we are very happy to welcome the Secretary of State of the United States of America here in Tallinn, in Estonia, in Stenbock House. The Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas, and the Secretary of State of the United States of America Antony Blinken, will deliver statements and take two questions. The press conference is held in English with simultaneous translation into Estonian.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Rasheed Karreem (38, Jacksonville) to eight years and four months in federal prison for distributing cocaine base, also referred to as “crack" cocaine. Karreem had pleaded guilty on December 8, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LAWRENCE JUNIOR LOFTIS, 65, of Stephens County, was sentenced to serve life in federal prison for abusive sexual contact with a child under 12 years old, announced Robert J. Troester, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - Former Illinois State Sen. THOMAS E. CULLERTON pleaded guilty today to a federal embezzlement charge and admitted fraudulently receiving salary and benefits from a labor union for which he did little to no work.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Tamara Browning | Mar 8, 2022
A rebound in the use of coal-generated energy caused toxic power-plant emissions to be higher in 2021 than in 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last month.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
NAWCA 2023 Mexico Standard Grant grant opened on March 8.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM crews have performed numerous corrective maintenance projects over the past two years to ensure nuclear facilities on the Oak Ridge Reservation continue operating safely and effectively.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $761,040 grant to the county of Vance, North Carolina, to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to support business growth in the Henderson-Vance Industrial Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld has appointed Max Nogay to serve as Environmental Justice Coordinator for the Northern District of West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Knoxville, Tennessee has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
