WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: An initiative advancing the nation's transportation decarbonization and resilient infrastructure goals Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced $1.7 million in research funding for a Climate Change and Transportation Research Center at the University of California, Davis. The new Center for Emissions Reduction, Resiliency, and Climate Equity in Transportation, established through   more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 14 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following statement on May 13, 2024: * * * Governor Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement regarding the death of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center Correctional Officer Frank Salas: "As we remember Correctional Officer Frank Salas for his passionate and professional demeanor, Jennifer and I offer our deepest sympathies to his family, friends and co-workers during this time. We are grateful for his years o  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Tracy Emery Smith, 42, of Valley Springs, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $901,035 in restitution for COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Congress created the PPP in March 2020, as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Econom  more

FRESNO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Alden Nunez-Rosales, 27, of Fresno, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, on April 26, 2023, Nunez-Rosales delivered 5,000 fentanyl pills to a person that he believed was a customer but wa  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release: HSQ Technology, A Corporation, a Hayward-based subsidiary of RailWorks Corporation, has agreed to pay $250,000 in penalties to resolve allegations that it knowingly violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment for network communications equipment it provided for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's (VTA) Silicon Vall  more

OAKLAND, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Rambler Gallo was sentenced to serve six months of home confinement and 36 months of probation for intentionally causing damage to the computer network for the Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility, located in the Town of Discovery Bay, Calif., and thereby threatening public health and safety. Specifically, Gallo intentionally uninstalled the  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Jason Toland, 43, of Wheatland, pleaded guilty today to one count of submitting false claims against the United States related to COVID-19 pandemic tax credits, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Toland attempted to obtain a total of over $13.4 million in COVID-19 pandemic relief, including by filing m  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia issued the following news release: Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike, has been sentenced for stealing more than $5 million based on an elaborate scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fictitious paperwork, and cash kickbacks. "Furlow-Smiles shamelessly violated her position of trust as a DEI executive at Facebook to steal millions from the company utilizin  more

LIVERMORE, California, May 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: When materials are subjected to extreme environments, they face the risk of mixing together. This mixing may result in hydrodynamic instabilities, yielding undesirable side effects. Such instabilities present a grand challenge across multiple disciplines, especially in astrophysics, combustion and shaped charges -- a device used to focus the energy of a det  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 14 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) board approved 11 New Mexico companies for funding to support workforce training for 116 new and current employees, Acting Economic Development Department (EDD) Cabinet Secretary Mark Roper announced today. Twelve awards were announced for eleven organizations, including one amended and two Step Up awards. The original Jo  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 14 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: Attorney General Hilgers is leading multi-state coalitions in two lawsuits to stop both the Biden Administration and the State of California from imposing electric-vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators throughout the country. Today, a coalition of 24 states filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to challenge the Biden Administrat  more

PALO ALTO, California, May 10 -- President Biden issued the following remarks at a campaign reception in a private residence: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Well, Melissa [Marissa] and Zach, thank you very much. I really mean it. And you have such a beautiful family. You really do. Girls, when you get to be teenagers, it gets hard to raise daddies. (Laughter.) We're easy until about age 13, when the boys start showing up. (Laughter.) So, you got to be very patient with daddies. And I told your brothe  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In a new study published in the journal Nature Scientific Data, researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have produced the most comprehensive power outage dataset ever compiled for the United States. This dataset, showing electricity outages from 2014-22 in the 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, details outag  more

SANTA ANA, California, May 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release on May 13, 2024: A Florida man was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison for helping the perpetrators of the March 2022 firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Orange County construct a Molotov cocktail. Xavier Batten, 21, of Brooksville, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who also ordered him to pay $1,000 in  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Vice President Kamala Harris issued the following remarks in a moderated conversation on May 13, 2024, with actor and comedian Jimmy O. Yang at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership Summit held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center: * * * MR. YANG: Thank you, Alisha. And, Madam Vice President, welcome to the APAICS Leadership Summit. THE VICE PRESIDENT: And happy 30th anniversary, everyone. (Applause.) Jimmy, befor  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, May 14 -- The Washington State Department of Ecology issued the following news release: A new Washington regulation will help reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from municipal solid waste landfills in the state. Methane has more than 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period and is responsible for more than 25% of the temperature impacts coming from climate change today. In landfills, methane is produced by the decompo  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on May 13, 2024: * * * Biden-Harris Administration Kicks Off Infrastructure Week by Highlighting Historic Results Spurred by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda Administration releases updated map showcasing 56,000 infrastructure projects and unveils new Investing in America state-by-state fact sheets When President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November 2021, he committed to deliver  more