News from November 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A South Georgia man who participated in a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy and two state prison guards who smuggled drugs behind bars are among the final defendants sentenced to federal prison as a major meth-distribution prosecution comes to a close.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program grant opened on Nov. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: HELENA - U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich today announced a grant award of $346,984 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to a Montana task force that investigates internet crimes against children and the exploitation of children.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Residents in the Borough of Yardley, PA now have lower flood insurance premiums because of the community’s initiatives to implement better floodplain management measures encouraged by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The Federal Emergency Management Agency created the voluntary...
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
Release: Ocean-based climate solutions have a key role in keeping the goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach and improving global climate resilience. On the occasion of the “Oceans and Coastal Zones" thematic day at COP27, the United States highlights the following ocean-climate action.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Federal search warrants were executed at six locations in Bibb County, Georgia, yesterday morning in a joint law enforcement operation involving FBI, Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Middle Georgia Safe Streets Gang Task Force, GBI Gang Task Force, Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office, Butts County...
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Yankton, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - The temporary Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) in Aguadilla, Cabo Rojo, Guánica, Naguabo, Rincón, San Germán and Yabucoa DRCs will close permanently at 5 p.m. on Nov. 17, 2022. Operational hours will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Saturday until they close.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the appointment of Cynthia M. Ferguson as the Director of the Office of Environmental Justice, where she will lead efforts to engage all Justice Department bureaus, components and offices in the collective pursuit of environmental justice.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BROWNFIELDS COMMUNITIES grant opened on Nov. 17.
By Tamara Browning | Nov 17, 2022
A final rule that gives limited implementation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as “DACA,” is effective as of Oct. 31.
By State Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: During the seventh Our Ocean Conference in Palau, the United States announced the Ocean Conservation Pledge – an ambitious new effort encouraging countries to commit to conserve or protect at least 30 percent of ocean waters under their national jurisdiction by 2030. Today, at COP27, Special Presidential ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: The first Chinese government intelligence officer ever to be extradited to the United States to stand trial was sentenced today in federal court in Cincinnati.
By Tamara Browning | Nov 17, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will develop options and recommendations to address pollution from locomotives in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to six and a half years in prison for possessing multiple firearms in furtherance of a cocaine-distribution operation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
Community Volunteer Ambassador Program grant opened on Nov. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A Cuban citizen living in Madison, Wisconsin is charged with 3 counts of violating the Migratory Bird Trafficking Act in an indictment returned on Oct. 12, 2022, by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison. The indictment is announced by Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that an ongoing nationwide effort by its Wage and Hour Division focused on improving compliance by residential care, nursing facilities, home health services and other care-focused industry employers has made significant progress in protecting workers’ rights and protections.
