News from February 2023
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - In another step by the Biden-Harris administration to grow America’s clean energy economy, the Department of the Interior today is proposing the first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico. The announcement is part of the Administration’s latest actions to expand offshore wind ...
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
Release: On the margins of the I2U2 Business Forum in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Under Secretary of State Jose W. Fernandez welcomed the Joint Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dammu Ravi signing a letter expressing the Indian Government’s intention to join the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
Release: Thank you, Deputy Secretary Su, for bringing us together today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (FEB. 22, 2023) – Today, EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe and EPA Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister presented a $500,000 ceremonial check to St. Louis Community College (STLCC) for a Brownfields Job Training grant selection. McCabe and McCollister were joined by STLCC Chancellor Jeff L. Pittman, Ph. D.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on Feb. 15, 2023, U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced HERBERT ALLEN (“ALLEN"), age 38, and DION RIDLEY (“RIDLEY"), age 23, after they pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18...
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent decision to roll back the previous administration’s mercury and air toxics standards (MATS) power plant regulations.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: The United States is determined to disrupt the global production and supply chain of illicit fentanyl, including by denying the criminal actors who engage in this activity access to the international financial system. Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Maine man is in custody on felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting a law enforcement officer, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: 1100 Pierce Point Road, Inverness, CA. Geo-coordinates: 38.1325, -122.8934. MANAGED BY: California Department of Parks and Recreation. Amenities. 6 listed. Beach/Water Access, Picnic Table, Recycling, Restroom, Showers, Trash/Litter Receptacles. Heart's Desire Beach is part of Tomales...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jason R. Moore, 42, of Milton, Florida, has pled guilty to two counts of “Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places." Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the plea today after Moore admitted his criminal activity in federal court in Pensacola.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A sixteen-plus year veteran of, and former sergeant with, the Newport News Police Department was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: In The Singing Wilderness, author Sigurd Olson writes about loon song and the “high calling of birds" during migration.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire Report | Feb 23, 2023
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently made a statement on the nomination of Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small to serve as the USDA deputy secretary.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: URBANA, IL - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court order requiring an Illinois home healthcare provider to pay 69 workers $1.1 million in back wages and damages for its failure to pay these workers for all hours worked.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent decision to roll back the previous administration’s mercury and air toxics standards (MATS) power plant regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Oregon returned an indictment today charging four founders of Forsage, a purportedly decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency investment platform, for their roles in a global Ponzi and pyramid scheme that raised approximately $340 million from victim-investors.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
Release: Employer: Window World of Southwest Virginia Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DERECK CELESTIN, JR., age 37, a resident of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2023 to 120 months imprisonment, 5 years of supervised release, and a mandatory $200 special assessment fee by U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, after pleading guilty to a...
