News from February 2023
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: SEATTLE (Feb. 2, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that 1023 Diesel and Fleet, Inc., of Wasilla, Alaska paid a $65,000 penalty for the illegal sale and installation of aftermarket products that disable vehicle emission control systems, known as defeat devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - Patricia Ann Hemphill, 51, of Rock Hill, was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison after pleading guilty relating to a multi-state drug operation out of the Rock Hill and Charlotte, North Carolina area.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a seven page rule on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today launched the committee’s investigation into the origins of COVID-19 for the 118th Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released the second Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT) Annual Report, outlining the Department’s achievements in combatting human trafficking during the previous fiscal year (FY). As a global leader in the fight against human ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels for America’s transportation and manufacturing needs. The selected projects, located at universities and private companies, will drive the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Manley Woods. Natural resource management at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield is focused on restoring the woodlands and prairies to the way they were at the time of the Civil War battle in 1861. The Manley Woods unit of the park is an oak-hickory woodland. Missouri oak woodlands are highly variable...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: ASHEVILLE, NC - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Benjamin Dann Owens, 36, of Hayesville, N.C., was sentenced to 312 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, Oxycodone, and other narcotics as well as conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: Thank you for your response to my letter of Feb. 3, 2014, and for having Department officials meet with my staff on February 12 regarding my investigation of 111 higher education institutions that may have been contravening the requirements of the Higher Education Act by explicitly...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Earlier today, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Quandel Smothers on both counts of an indictment charging him with racketeering conspiracy and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime in connection with his leadership of the East New York-based Elite Assassin Millas (E.A.M.)...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Twenty-four years ago, Beth Williams and Jeff Warren performed underground surveying work at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS ) to help with the eventual shutdown of a facility used in the development of the U.S. space program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Texas man was sentenced for assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon 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 USDA Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing titled “Farm Bill 2023: Commodity Programs, Crop Insurance, and Credit".
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Heat-up of a liquid waste treatment facility has resumed this month in anticipation of beginning radiological operations at the facility at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory Site.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Michael James Peters, 42, of Concord, North Carolina, was sentenced today to one year in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for lying to the United States Department of Agriculture regarding the Nicholas County coal he pledged as collateral for a $9 million USDA-backed business loan. Peters must also pay $1,375,000 in restitution and a $25,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.B U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Hugh Mahoney, 50, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to robbing the ESL Federal Credit Union on Merchants Road in Rochester. The charge carries a maximum possible penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Communication and Technology subcommittee hearing titled “Launching Into the State of the Satellite Marketplace."
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
