WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: As the lead federal agency for the development of workplace safety and environmental compliance strategies for offshore conventional and renewable energy projects on the federal Outer Continental Shelf, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today conducted the first-ever Government Initiated Unannounced Exercise (GIUE)   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 31 (TNSres) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: * * * An international team of astronomers, including CfA scientists, used JWST to find a record-breaking galaxy observed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. * * * An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, dating back to only 300 million years after the Big   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 31 (TNSres) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: Air pollution data on a neighborhood scale are now available in near real-time from the TEMPO instrument (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution). The mission gathers hourly daytime scans of the atmosphere over North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Coast and from roughly Mexico City to central Canada. The primary instrument on TEMPO, a collabor  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release: * * * Various Deadlines Postponed to July 31 * * * The Internal Revenue Service announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses in parts of Massachusetts affected by severe storms and flooding that began on Sept. 11, 2023. These taxpayers now have until July 31, 2024, to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make payments. The IRS is offer  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Lawrence was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Fraily Rodriguez Morillo, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor, IV to 46 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release. In February 2024, Morillo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: Massachusetts doctor has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act by soliciting and receiving free products from DePuy Synthes, Inc. and DePuy Synthes Sales, Inc. (collectively "DePuy"), in return for ordering DePuy products for use in his procedures. Doctor used these free products in surge  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Mashpee man has been charged, and has agreed to plead guilty, in connection with a scheme to artificially inflate the trading price of Getty Images Holdings, Inc. and attempting to cover up the alleged scheme. Robert Scott Murray, 60, has been charged and has agreed to plead guilty to one count of securities fraud. He will appear in federal court in Boston at   more