News from September 2022
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
FNS Awards Grant to Louisiana to Provide Mobile Payment Options for WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
FNS Awards Grant to The Chickasaw Nation to Provide Mobile Payment Options for WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), headquartered in Illinois, has agreed to pay $2.5 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act’s General Duty Clause and Risk Management Program Regulations at its containerboard production mill in DeRidder, Louisiana.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal grand jury in Portland has returned an indictment charging an Eastern Oregon man with distributing large quantities of fentanyl and methamphetamine in and around Umatilla County, Oregon.
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
USDA Encourages Ag Producers, Residents to Prepare for Hurricane Ian
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the Biden-Harris National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
USDA Provee Alivio a Hogares Impactados por Huracán Fiona
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
USDA Provides Relief to Households Hit by Hurricane Fiona
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
USDA Launches $100 Million Healthy School Meals Initiative, Announces Grant Program for Rural Schools
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
USDA to Invest $8 Million to Expand Monitoring of Soil Carbon
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
APHIS Revises Requirements for Importing Fresh Sand Pear Fruit from the Republic of Korea into the United States
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
APHIS Authorizes Importation of Fresh Turmeric Rhizome from Samoa into the United States
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
APHIS Removes the Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens) Quarantine Area in Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Front Royal woman was sentenced today to seven years in prison for being the ringleader of a decade-long oxycodone distribution network, sourcing high-dosage oxycodone pills from a doctor in Arlington.
By Press release submission | Sep 29, 2022
APHIS Seeks Comment on Draft Pest Risk Assessment for the Importation of Ornamental Cherry Cuttings from Japan
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROY REID, also known as “Jama," 34, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to a fentanyl trafficking offense.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Hileman, age 39, of Marcy, New York, pled guilty today to mailing a threatening communication. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By Fed Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
“Highlights + Senate“ was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1336-D1338 on Dec. 18, 2015

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on Sept. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2022
There was activity on seven bills related to the Ways and Means Committee on Sept. 28.