News from January 2023

By US DOT Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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...

By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
Energy Innovation Hub Program: Research to Enable Next-Generation Batteries and Energy Storage grant opened on Jan. 26.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: WICHITA, Kan. - A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging two people with transporting methamphetamine across state lines.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
News Release: Training and seminars for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
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).

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
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.

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
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.

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
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.

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know that America’s native bees and other pollinators continue to need everyone’s help.

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
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).

By Press release submission | Jan 26, 2023
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

By Tamara Browning | Jan 26, 2023
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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.

By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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.

By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2023
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.