News from March 2022
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the Build America Bureau provided a $1.05 billion low interest loan to Capital Beltway Express, LLC to refinance an existing loan for the Capital Beltway express lanes and construction of a northern extension called the 495 NEXT Project.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
Chart depicts the total number of container ships waiting for an available dock at U.S. ports overall (solid line) and select major port complexes (dashed lines).
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu requesting all documents and communications related to the $1.2 trillion in taxpayer dollars authorized in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has advanced the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2022.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) statement on the President’s State of the Union address:“In the face of international turmoil, President Biden took a premature victory lap tonight on his massive infrastructure spending law.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced ten Biden Administration nominations. All are subject to approval by the full Senate.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will hold a full committee hearing on Thursday, March 3, 2022, to examine S. 3580, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, and ways to strengthen oversight of international ocean carriers.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
A Eugene man was sentenced to federal prison today for supplying a University of Oregon student with fentanyl-laced counterfeit Oxycodone pills that caused the student’s overdose death.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: 402-223-3514. Youth Conservation Corps Applications. For Homestead National Historical Park. Homestead National Historical Park is now accepting applications for the summer 2022 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). The YCC is a summer employment program for young men and women, ages 15-18, who work and learn...
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
Marquis Isreal, also known as “Garf” or “Gbaby,” 25, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 210 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for racketeering offenses related to his participation in a gang-related shooting in front of a state courthouse in Bridgeport in January 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: Reservations for the peak season at Fairholme Campground in Olympic National Park will be available online, through recreation.gov, beginning Friday, March 11th. For 2022, reservations are available for May 25 through September 21. All campsites at Fairholme Campground are reservable for the peak season...
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
Scorpio Teriell Tisdale, 28, of Gallivants Ferry, and Michael Keith McKenith, 32, of Aynor, were sentenced to 10 years and seven years respectively after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Dear President Maia Sandu, dear Secretary of State of the United States of America Antony Blinken, we start off the briefing organized on the occasion – on the visit occasion of Mr. Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America. We offer the floor to Ms. President Maia Sandu.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page rule on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is launching its second year of Operation Engage, a comprehensive community-level approach to address the drug epidemic through prevention strategies, facilitating conversations and collaboration with local partners.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection (ORP ) and tank operations contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently began operating a new exhauster ventilation system installed in the SY Tank Farm at the Hanford Site.
By Press release submission | Mar 8, 2022
A Desert Hot Springs, California, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to smuggling more than four kilograms of methamphetamine from Los Angeles, Calif., to Indianapolis, Indiana aboard a bus traveling through Kansas City, Missouri.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
Micro-Enterprise Reforms, Opportunities, and Growth in Iraq grant opened on March 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TERRY FORMER was sentenced this afternoon to 48 months in prison in connection with the laundering of more than $2.2 million in proceeds of a business email compromise scheme. FORMER pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud on April 2, 2021, before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
