News from May 2022
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on April 19, 2022, an indictment was returned charging Deandre L. Rodgers (age 36) of Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, and Viridiana Garcia-Ramirez (age 24) of Los Angeles, California, with conspiring to violate the ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, in an effort to save lives, DEA is proud to join “Song for Charlie" and many of our valued public health, non-profit, and law enforcement partners in recognizing the first ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day. This day is an effort to educate individuals around the dangerous threat that fentanyl poses to the safety, health, and national security of the American people.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HAWAI‘I - Educators at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park are working collaboratively with local teachers and community partners to create professional development workshops for climate change education.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Daniel Webster, 37, of Rutland, Vermont was arraigned by waiver today on a Superseding Indictment that alleges Webster committed two robberies that interfered with interstate commerce. The first robbery occurred on July 24, 2021, at the Mobil gas station located on South Main Street in Rutland. The second occurred on July 28, 2021, at the Mac’s convenience store in Fair Haven.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: (Bedford, VA)- The National Park Service is recruiting volunteers for critical positions at three Blue Ridge Parkway visitor centers in Virginia. Visitor Service volunteers will work alongside park staff and partners to respond to visitor inquiries, provide information, orient visitors to the park and surrounding area, and provide high-quality customer service to park visitors.
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Senate Passes Capito’s Motion by Bipartisan Vote Amid Progressives’ Cry to Declare Climate a National Emergency
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Carper, Duckworth, Booker Applaud Creation of New DOJ Office of Environmental Justice
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: Third Man Charged in Connection with Plot to Kill Haitian President.
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small and U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) Assistant Secretary Alejandra Y. Castillo today released a joint resource guide to help community organizations access USDA and EDA resources
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the South Eastern Economic Development Corporation (SEED), Taunton, Massachusetts, to capitalize and administer a revolving loan fund.
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.4 million grant to Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, for renovations to the Central Michigan University Research Corporation incubator and accelerator.
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Cantwell-Led Bill Would Restore FTC Authority to Return Billions to Consumers Ripped off by Scams, Fraud, Deception
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
Biden Administration Continues War on American Minerals
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
EPW Committee Unanimously Advances Water Resources Development Act
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2022
“Nomination of Kathryn Huff (Executive Session)” was published on page S2353 of the Congressional Record on May 5.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By State Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: The Department of State is taking additional actions to hold accountable those engaged in human rights abuses, to impose severe costs on the Government of the Russian Federation (GoR), and to degrade the Kremlin’s ability to support Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine and fund its war of aggression.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Russell Taylor, 50, Indianapolis, and his ex-wife, Angela Taylor (now known as Angela Baldwin), 40, Connersville, were sentenced today, ending a years-long child exploitation investigation into a conspiracy that involved Taylor, Baldwin, and Jared Fogle. Taylor was sentenced to 27 years in prison and Baldwin was sentenced to over 33 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2022
News Release: Jasper, Ark. - A Springfield, MO man died from a fall in the Indian Creek drainage of Buffalo National River on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
By Press release submission | May 9, 2022
EPW Committee Unanimously Passes 2022 WRDA
