News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DESEAN CHRISTY, age 38, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday for violating the Federal Gun Control Act, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and 924(c)(1)(A), and the Federal Drug Control Act...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, EPA is reaffirming the scientific, economic, and legal underpinnings of the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants, which required significant reductions of mercury, acid gases, and other harmful pollutants. Controlling these emissions improves public health ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. - During the week of Feb. 27 through March 3, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management, in conjunction with Holloman Air Force Base, are planning a prescribed burn in Socorro County. Personnel will concentrate their efforts on Red Rio Bombing Range, located on White Sands Missile Range approximately 18 miles west of Carrizozo. An anticipated 300 acres of grassland will be targeted for hand-ignition. Smoke from the fire may be visible from Highways 380 and 54.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Khaled Abughanem, 50, and Waleed Abughanem, 32, both of Lackawanna, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to kidnap persons in a foreign country. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: KIELER, WI - One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children - from 13 to 17 years of age - in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good evening, everyone. It’s a great pleasure and, I would say, actually an honor to be with President Sandu, someone whose leadership in an incredibly challenging time we greatly admire. And we stand strongly with Moldova in support of its security, its independence, its territorial ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: Defendant Threw Object at Officers in One Incident, Poured Bucket Filled With Liquid on Officers in Second Confrontation.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: BROOKLYN - Daniel E. Russo pleaded guilty today in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, distribution and possession of oxycodone, and nine counts of filing false personal and corporate tax returns. The proceeding was held before United...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reinstating the finding that it is “appropriate and necessary" to regulate mercury and toxic air pollution ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: From March 1 to Sept. 15, the back beaches and sand dunes in this area are closed to hiking to protect the nesting area for the western snowy plover, a federally listed, threatened shorebird. Please remain on the wet sand (below mean high tide) or the road throughout this area during this time.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Connecticut charging a Connecticut man and a foreign national with conspiracy, multiple counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and money laundering in connection with an alleged scheme to pay bribes to Brazilian officials to win contracts with Brazil’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (Petrobras).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - WALTER ALVAREZ TIRADO, age 33, a resident of Madisonville, Kentucky, pled guilty on Feb. 16, 2023 before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office wants to hear your ideas on how to ensure off-highway vehicle trails are safe and well maintained on public lands throughout Central California at a virtual public meeting on Monday, Feb. 27 at 5 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2023
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) led committee members to Texas for the first congressional field hearing at the southern border in the 118th Congress. The members discussed how President Biden’s border policies are causing a public health crisis in border communities and...
