News from November 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
Fiscal Year 2023 Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP) ($75M) grant opened on Nov. 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republican lawmakers are calling on U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide the Biden Administration’s plans, if any, to secure the border. In a letter to Secretary Mayorkas, the Republican lawmakers are calling for all documents and communications to address the worst border crisis on record in American history.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted two local men of a drug trafficking conspiracy involving heroin and 40 grams or more of fentanyl, multiple counts of distribution of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, and several federal firearms crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 2, 2022) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced funding to the State of California for water infrastructure improvements under the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). California has been awarded more than $609 million in capitalization grants through the State Revolving Funds (SRFs) to supplement the state’s annual base SRF funding of $144 million.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Last summer, two interns got a head start on their careers through a partnership between the Office of Legacy Management (LM) and the Mentorship for Environmental Scholars (MES) Program.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Vermont for more than $300,000 to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
Release: Passengers across the state of Florida have brought a record number of guns to the Transportation Security Administrations checkpoints. The year-to-date number of 700 guns is already higher than in any previous year and includes records set at 12 individual airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - An inmate at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex has been charged with threatening to kill a state judge and his family, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Malik Holston, 20, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of first-degree murder and other charges for the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - United States Attorney Jason M. Frierson announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Daniel Schiess will lead the efforts for the District of Nevada in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Maple Grove man has been convicted by a federal jury for his role in a $1.4 million Medicare fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held its first meeting with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan to begin a technical assistance project funded by the American Rescue Plan. EPA and KBIC officials met to discuss risks to human health and the environment from contaminated waste and coastal erosion in specific areas along the Keweenaw Bay shoreline on Lake Superior.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYSON QUINONES, also known as “Ty," 36, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is making $122.5 million in fiscal year 2022 funding for Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) grants available to eligible states and Tribes. These funds will support local investment opportunities that create good-paying union jobs and provide for the sustainable long-term rehabilitation of abandoned mine lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Ann Hoffman will lead the efforts of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: Federal, state, and local law enforcement partners from across the United States executed a nationwide, coordinated takedown today of leaders and associates of a national network of thieves, dealers, and processors for their roles in conspiracies involving stolen catalytic converters sold to a metal refinery for tens of millions of dollars.
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement marking two years since the start of the war in northern Ethiopia:
