SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the Justice Department announced today that a lawsuit was filed against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to challenge discriminatory code requirements that deny or limit the av  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit (https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1377406/dl) against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and Pennsylvania Department of Human Services to challenge discriminatory code requirements that deny or limit the availability of community-based housing for people with intellectual disabilitie  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL researchers have developed a low-cost process for converting coal tar waste into a high-quality graphene -- material that can increase performance of energy-storing supercapacitor systems by up to 55%. Supercapacitors store electrical energy and, in some ways, are comparable to batteries. One primary difference is that supercapacitors can be charge  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL researchers took a major step forward in studying how well a new solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) product can work in a micro-grid setting when they installed a cutting-edge SOFC system to help meet power needs at NETL's Morgantown, West Virginia site. According to a U.S. Department of Energy report to Congress, "In a SOFC, electricity is generated thr  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 34 years of imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl and conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Uni  more

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Federico Rosario, age 30, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was convicted on November 18, 2024, for the distribution of fentanyl resulting in death following a four-day jury trial before United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani. According to United States Att  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) will post a pre-recorded webinar to provide information on the University Training and Research (UTR) Program (https://www.energy.gov/fecm/university-training-and-research-utr-program) and a grant writing discussion. The UTR Program supports the FECM mis  more