News from January 2023
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Washington - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend animal disease traceability regulations and require electronic identification for interstate movement of certain cattle and bison. APHIS is also proposing to revise ...
By DOE Newswire Report | Jan 18, 2023
Jeff Eshelman, the president and CEO of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), said that the organization supports H.R. 22, the Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Colorado physician on Friday for misappropriating approximately $250,000 from two separate COVID-19 relief programs.
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: This National Religious Freedom Day marks the 237th anniversary of the signing of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786. Under the Virginia Statute authored by Thomas Jefferson, legislators for the first time endorsed the principles of freedom of conscience and separation of church and state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARVIN YOUNG, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty as charged on January 5, 2023 to being a felon in possession of a firearm before the Honorable Eldon E. Fallon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - CUONG NGUYEN, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced on January 5, 2023 by U.S. District Court Judge Barry W. Ashe to ninety-three (93) months of incarceration after pleading guilty to a four-count indictment. Judge Ashe ordered that NGUYEN be placed on supervised release for a term of three (3) years following his release from imprisonment. NGUYEN was also ordered to pay a total mandatory special assessment fee of $400.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $4.7 million to Florida as part of a nationwide effort to strengthen the country’s infrastructure for pest detection, surveillance, and mitigation, as well as protect the U.S. nursery system. USDA is providing more than $70 million in funding this year to support 350 projects in 48 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The Plant Protection Act Section 7721 gives USDA the authority to provide this funding.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Virgin Atlantic $1.05 million for operating flights carrying Delta Air Lines’ code (DL) in regions in which a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight prohibition was in effect. The airline was ordered to cease and desist from future similar violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: FBI New Orleans Accepting Applications for Citizens Academy.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing to the public the intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to examine the potential environmental effects of the Agency’s response activities to highly pathogenic avian influenza ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
“PROTECTING AMERICA'S STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE FROM CHINA ACT“ was published in the House section on pages H209-H219 on Jan. 12
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $2.5 million to Texas as part of a nationwide effort to strengthen the country’s infrastructure for pest detection, surveillance, and mitigation, as well as protect the U.S. nursery system. USDA is providing more than $70 million in funding this year to support 350 projects in 48 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The Plant Protection Act Section 7721 gives USDA the authority to provide this funding.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $180 thousand to Iowa as part of a nationwide effort to strengthen the country’s infrastructure for pest detection, surveillance, and mitigation, as well as protect the U.S. nursery system. USDA is providing more than $70 million in funding this year to support 350 projects in 48 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The Plant Protection Act Section 7721 gives USDA the authority to provide this funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, and Jean Pierre Njock, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal...
By State Newswire Report | Jan 18, 2023
The U.S. announced the launch of the Without Just Cause initiative, which seeks to raise international awareness of the plight of political prisoners and their families.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for December 2022. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. The BFS are a standard data product of the Census Bureau, developed in research collaboration...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $18 million to California as part of a nationwide effort to strengthen the country’s infrastructure for pest detection, surveillance, and mitigation, as well as protect the U.S. nursery system. USDA is providing more than ...
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: I join President Biden in recognizing the somber one-year anniversary of the cross-border terrorist attack against the UAE, which tragically killed and wounded civilians. We strongly condemn these attacks. As I have reaffirmed in my engagements with Emirati President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed and Foreign ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2023
News Release: Researchers at the USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions now think that molecular mechanisms of brain development during early life are likely to be a major determinant of obesity risk based on the results of a new study. This information is part of the latest issue of ARS' Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
