News published on Federal Newswire in January 2023

News from January 2023


Buttigieg: 'These extreme storms have disrupted millions of lives and livelihoods'

A nearly $30 million "down payment" is being made immediately available for repairs to California roads and highways damaged in recent storms and flooding, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced this week.



News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: MIAMI - More than two dozen individuals have been charged in the Southern District of Florida for their alleged participation in a wire fraud scheme that created an illegal licensing and employment shortcut for aspiring nurses.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ivan J. Arvelo, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), Keechant Sewell, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Patrick Freaney...


PAMS-SC grant application closes on May 18

Energy Innovation Hub Program: Research to Enable Next-Generation Batteries and Energy Storage grant opened on Jan. 26.


California Man & Woman Indicted for Meth Drug Trafficking

News Release: WICHITA, Kan. - A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging two people with transporting methamphetamine across state lines.


Canton Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Transfer of Obscene Material to a Minor

News Release: Training and seminars for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.


Service Extends Effective Date for Lesser Prairie-Chicken Listing

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is delaying the effective date of the final rule to list two Distinct Population Segments (DPS) of the lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).


Five species on San Clemente Island declared fully recovered

Decades of collaborative conservation efforts on U.S. Navy-owned San Clemente Island resulted in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s announcement today that five species – San Clemente Island paintbrush, lotus, larkspur and bush-mallow plants and San Clemente Bell’s sparrow have fully recovered and no longer require Endangered Species Act protection.


Service Seeks Comment on Proposed Critical Habitat for Sickle Darter

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate critical habitat in parts of Tennessee and Virginia for the sickle darter, a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in December 2022.


Mexican Wolf Captured North of Interstate 40 in New Mexico

In accordance with current policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) authorized the capture and transfer of f2754, a Mexican wolf who had left the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Recovery Area (MWEPA) earlier this month.


Expanded grant opportunities fund conservation for imperiled bumble bees

We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know that America’s native bees and other pollinators continue to need everyone’s help.


USFWS Completes Final Recovery Plan for Meltwater Lednian and Western Glacier Stoneflies

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is announcing the completion and publication of the final recovery plan for the Meltwater Lednian stonefly (Lednia tumana) and Western Glacier stonefly (Zapada glacier).


Partnership-Driven Conservation Gives Oregon Butterfly Wings

The Fender’s blue butterfly, once thought to be extinct, is fluttering toward recovery under the Endangered Species Act. Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified Fender’s blue butterfly from endangered to threatened and finalized a special rule


FGI spokesman: Vilsack's supply chain task force 'was little more than a cynical attempt to signal engagement' while doing 'little or nothing'

A new organization that has a goal of exposing governmental activities has criticized Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for what it calls his lack of involvement in a task force on supply chain disruptions.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Chair Rodgers Announces Energy and Commerce Committee Leadership, Subcommittee Membership for the 118th Congress

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced the committee’s leadership and subcommittee membership for the 118th Congress.


Imposing Visa Restrictions on Individuals Involved in Undermining the Democratic Process in Nigeria

Release: We are committed to supporting and advancing democracy in Nigeria and around the world. Today, I am announcing visa restrictions on specific individuals in Nigeria for undermining the democratic process in a recent Nigerian election.