News from September 2022

By Lucas Nava | Sep 22, 2022
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm confirmed the presence of response personnel in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to assess the damage done to both territories' energy sectors during and after the passing of Hurricane Fiona.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dario George, age 31, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking offenses.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
Release: President Putin’s call to partially mobilize Russian citizens, directing them to fight in Ukraine, reflects the Kremlin’s struggles on the battlefield, the unpopularity of the war, and Russians’ unwillingness to fight in it. President Putin is not operating from a position of strength; rather, this is ...

By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
Release: Denver, Colo. Sept. 22, 2022 USDA Food and Nutrition Service today awarded Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) a $517,961 grant to support their efforts to enhance efficiency and access in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Colorado.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Donald Trump...

By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) today released its EM Program Plan, a 2022 priority outlining a decision roadmap the cleanup program will use as a guide over the next two decades.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to Lafayette City Parish Consolidated Government dba LUS Fiber, Lafayette, Louisiana, to establish high-speed internet connectivity in support of business and job growth in Jennings, Louisiana. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
The US Energy Department published a five page notice on Sept. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, pressed the nominee for Archivist for the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan, on her partisan and controversial views. In 2007, Dr. Shogan wrote an article titled...

By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that more than $31 million in grants has been approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, which will conserve or restore 116,305 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds and other birds in 18 states. The grants, made through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA), will be matched by more than $60 million in partner funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling announced that on Sept. 16, 2022, Matheau P. Martinez (age: 38) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison by Senior District Judge William C. Griesbach.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans delivered the following opening remarks during a markup of 18 Republican-led “Resolutions of Inquiry" that would require the administration to provide certain documentation for oversight of the Biden administration’s handling of crises such as surging inflation, rising energy costs, empty store shelves, chaos at the border, and record-high fentanyl poisonings and deaths.

By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
There was activity on eight bills related to the Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 21.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a three-count indictment charging LATRELL ROUNTREE, 27, of Hamden, with drug and firearm offenses.

By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on Sept. 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A New York woman pleaded guilty on Sept. 15, 2022 in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking five kilograms of fentanyl.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment last week charging a Philadelphia man with robbing an armored security truck at gunpoint.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Sept. 21.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today opened applications for the $7 billion program to create regional clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) across the country, which will form a critical arm of America's future clean energy economy. As part of a larger $8 billion hydrogen hub program funded...